For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality?
And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.
Totally. We've had Q4 labor screw-overs since Jack Welch. Now this added humiliation.
"AI" might enable mass automation. But it will also enable this CEO tactic: "Look shareholders/VCs, I namedropped the hot new thing, please gimme extra layoff brownie points this Christmas!"
You know a company is pathetic and failing when it has to resort to silly publicity stunts to be talked about instead of just having a product people care about and use.
For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality?
And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.