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1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll (ktla.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that becoming a reality. Executives of some of the largest and most powerful companies in […]

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

See: Labyrinthian phone systems where it's nearly impossible to talk to a human.

Don't fret, this year, they're fully removing the humans from the equation.

Literally, customer service is where I expect this to hit first.

Corporations have made clear they've cornered all the markets, and they're not concerned with serving the customer or fixing mistakes anymore. This will absolutely the first rug-pull. Expect to be flung into digital "black holes" when you have an issue because there no longer is a human in the chain to resolve it.

[–] xor 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this is already the case, except i can eventually reach a human that doesn't understand english, reading an english script....
at least the AI won't get frustrated and hang up on me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't put the blame on underpaid people in other countries as much as I can't put it on the AI itself. It's the shitty business management practices. I doubt the foreigners doing customer service for the Yanks are happy about being browbeaten and spoken to abusively simply because they don't speak English as a first language. On top of the abuse, they're getting paid pennies compared to US/European customer service agents! They're human, they deserve the same pay, it's disgusting.

It's not the individual laborers fault that the corporate Suits make the rules and make them follow a script and don't allow them to actually help you. They can get fired for deviating from the script or actually helping you.

Corporations are really banking on how an AI will never, ever help you if they don't want it to. They don't have to worry about coaching it or firing it. They can just keep changing the code to fit new scenarios.

[–] xor 4 points 11 months ago

whoa, im not blaming impoverished people with poor english from taking customer service jobs... they're doing what they can with what they have...

im saying customer service is already practically a black hole... just instead of an AI that doesn't understand or help with your problem... and regurgitates pieces of a script inappropriately, we already have that right now but with humans.

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