Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount?

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1081067

In the past, the rhetoric was all about increasing productivity. Now headcount is coming into focus. Companies like OpenAI have begun to openly acknowledge the implications: why recruit more people when there’s an AI for that? And do you really need all those employees?

OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment by The Register. Microsoft did not wish to make a statement on the record. ®

They’re not even trying to hide it now

  • sudo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment by The Register. Microsoft did not wish to make a statement on the record.

    Wait. Neither OpenAI nor Microsoft had an AI craft the perfect response to a journalist’s questions?

    Next you’ll be telling me that Tesla’s “self driving” cars don’t deliver themselves, but actually are delivered to dealerships on an 18-wheeler driven by a human.