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Take-Two CEO Doesn't Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Development Costs; Says It's "Stupidest Thing" He's Heard (mp1st.com)
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[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I've said before and I'll say again, AI tools as we have them are a really good tool, for someone who knows what the tool needs to get done.

This isn't gonna replace work, it's going to change what work looks like, from having to know how to do the thing yourself to having to be able to clearly describe the thing you want done.

The peak of irony, this STEM development just made writing and literature classes a VITAL part of the average student's future working skills compared to how they were viewed before.

The hardest workers are probably also gonna wind up being damn fine reporters/poets/creative writers just as a happenstance of what skills they have to develop just to be good at their prompt engineering.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

People are already losing their jobs... This is simply domonstrably false.

I think maybe you're focusing on a specific topic, rather than the broader one. For example, AI is still not great at technical troubleshooting... Though, honestly, it's getting better at an alarming rate.

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. AI can definitely reduce development costs by handling a lot of the easy busy work for developers.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You underestimate the rate of technological advancement. “As we have them” is fleeting. Any well programmed AI will be better tomorrow than it was yesterday provided it has been utilized.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unless you figured out how to escape binary computing, tomorrow, for everyone, it is really not gonna be the way you think it is.

The limitations I'm describing come from the very nature of how we practice computer science and engineering, you cannot derive a creative intelligence that thinks like a human from binary computing, just like how there are mass computations a human could never dream of performing in a timely manner the way even basic computers are capable of today.

Unless someone cracks the code to scalable quantum computing tomorrow, the closest current AI tech will ever come to being a replacement for human intelligence will be as a "Third Hemisphere" brain implant designed to unite Human Creativity with Silicon Mass Data Processing. Which, again, doesn't replace the human, it just moves the position of the tool they use to still be the one doing the work ultimately.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I’m not suggesting it will replace humans in likeness. I was wrong to say you underestimate AI’s potential. You overestimate the amount of interpersonal skill needed in many jobs. AI’s potential lies in replacing a large swath of industrial and logistics positions when utilized in specialized robotics. The logistics projects that are less than a year old are already meeting or exceeding expectations. As the technology advances, implementation costs come down, and more jobs will be lost.

I’m not against the technology. I just think we should be realistic about its ability to change the labor market, especially with wealthy corporations flooding the field with investments.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He smiles as he puts up a fake front to the public, while drafting up plans to lay off X amount of people to get Y amount of profit for the shareholders.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can do that without AI.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago

But now they can blame AI for being shitty human beings

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Considering that Big Tech’s thing lately is “were going to fire 12,000 people and shunt their work onto other employees for no reason but to raise our stock price”, I’m a bit skeptical.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is already happening. I'm watching people lose their jobs. I'm starting to wonder how many AI apologists are real people without motives.

I'm not suggesting we ban it, either... But we need legislation and common sense laws/rules/limits. If this isn't achieved soon, countless workers will be upended for the enrichment of the few.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

If a business borrowed too heavily during the last 5 years/super lower interest rates cycle and are now really hurting because they couldn't keep borrowing, they are choosing to reduce overhead ie employees. This was gonna happen no matter what IMO (i could be insanely wrong) but along came "AI" to solve all the problems aka shift the blame.

Like i said i could be way off but this seems like a fad that is gonna get scapegoated hard.

[–] nobleshift@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone with a functional mind knows that almost every invention, every breakthrough, every discovery, will always be utilized 1st to further greed and to kill people. Many would argue one is a tool of the other and not separate.

Reassurance by anyone who says otherwise is to be suspect IMO.

[–] jhulten@infosec.pub 12 points 5 months ago

You forgot porn. (Closes private browsing tab)

[–] elxeno@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Didn't they just fire a bunch of ppl?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He just read the headline about how experts say AI could easily replace CEOs in the near future.

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

woah, that's going too far, next thing you would be saying AI could replace investors!

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

I imagine he turned around, pressed the resume call button and fired 500 employees to make room for Ai

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Theyre trying to get good press after the bad press theyve been taking. It wont work.

[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

An AI will not take your job. But someone who uses AI well as a tool might.

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

That just shrinks the available jobs and eventually something will break in society.