full title of article Google Lays Off Thousands More Employees Despite Record Profits One Year After Laying off 12,000 Employees As Workers Begin Worrying AI is Slowly Replacing Them https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-lays-off-thousands-more-210822278.html Hyperlink has full article Mon, Feb 19, 2024, 4:08 PM EST snip This move is part of Google’s broader effort to streamline operations and align resources with its most significant product priorities. According to The Verge, the total number is in the thousands............. The layoffs have sparked widespread concern among Google employees, not just about job security but also about the ethical implications of their work, end snip thousands more hitting the bricks. Reality is hitting home for many folks when they realize that their well-paid situations have disappeared and restaurant work is in their future.
AI does not replace the hardware business which had significant cuts. The fact of the matter is that thousands more are hitting the bricks.
Both are very profitable. The call on outsourcing is really a "make or buy" decision in business. Do you handle the labor internally for role X or outsource to contractors. It really just depends on the specializations required. AI is used in a ton of automation and otherwise can introduce efficiencies that lower costs dramatically. I don't really see general AI, assume it is even possible to do and do well, coming for several more decades. The AI we have now is really task focused. If your job consists of repetitive tasks that can be automated, that's going to be where you are at the biggest risk of being replaced. Well, that and writers. With writing, it is less repetitive, but we just have so much data for machine learning to pull from for that one that it makes it possible to work with. Still, all of the writing I've seen come out of it is . . . mediocre. And it does take some specialization in prompt writing to get real value out of it.
If A.I. doesn’t replace employee, then why did you chose this article? Did you even read the “headline” you posted here , or just the first three words of the headline.
You need to do your homework. !!! https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/16/ai-...but-the-numbers-dont-tell-the-full-story.html More than one-third (37%) of business leaders say AI replaced workers in 2023, according to a recent report from ResumeBuilder. Employees say that 29% of their work tasks are replaceable by AI, project management and collaboration software company Asana found in its surveying.
You do not possess the background knowledge and expertise to accurately comment on tech industry issues.
That's not the point of the OP and that poster's thread starting history. It's to paint a false narrative to blame Biden and not the actual reasons. You are not expected to read beyond the headline nor do any further digging.
I agree those layoffs have nothing to do with Biden, but i was specifically countering the impact of AI on the workforce. Places like Google would be prime grounds to implement it as much as possible.
Businesses do not exist to employ people. If Google is profitable and able to deliver services without these payroll costs... of course they are going to lay people off. If labor costs were extraordinarily high resulting from compensation packages and perks, then laying off people with the highest labor costs make sense. And then reality sets in.
AI is already replacing jobs, whether you accept it or not. As for calling out others "sanctimonious opinions", your thread is just that about doom and gloom with only restaurant like jobs available.
