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Jim Kavanaugh, CEO of World Wide Technology, told CNBC that people are “too smart” to accept artificial intelligence won’t alter their work environment.
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Business leaders shouldn’t “BS” employees about the impact of AI on jobs, Kavanaugh said, adding that they should be as transparent and honest as possible.
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Kavanaugh, who has a net worth of $7 billion, stressed that overall he’s an optimist when it comes to AI and its ability to improve productivity.
I work in AI (cue boos).
I trust a tech CEO to tell me the truth about the future of AI as much as I’d trust Harold Shipman to care for my elderly relatives.
Ask most people in the industry, the ones with PhD’s in ML/DS, and the engineers that build the infrastructure around this stuff, and you’ll likely hear that while it’s very cool, what we’ll likely see from it is a huge improvement in productivity tooling and word processing. It’ll make workers’ lives easier.
IMO, it won’t take away any jobs any time soon. Most of the CEO’s that say it’s saved millions of hours of their engineers are, bluntly, liars. Those that say that software engineering will disappear because LLM’s will get better are either really fucking stupid, liars that are pandering to shareholders, or a mix of the two.
Where I’ll say that this person is right is that it’ll improve productivity, naturally because the tools help the workers.