Why the hell do you think American companies continue to contract Indian programmers? It's ALWAYS been about cost. Just that sentence turned me off to the whole article. Nothing has changed in that regard. What we see with our Indian contractors are a bunch of very technically proficient individuals who are utterly disconnected from the actual processes they are supposed to be considering. Oh.... and roosters crowing during meetings. Always with roosters.

At my company, we've been told that if we're still doing the same work we doing at the start of the year, we'll be let go. We're expected to use AI to automate a huge portion of our current workload, and then take on new work.

I think you've lost the plot a bit.

Regardless of whether AI can get pissed off or not, this is an action AI took based on its trained behavior. And there's no way for a human to protect themselves against it. The AI could make posts to almost every message board on the web, look up and mail every news correspondent with an email address, and send text and other messages to every journalist with "contact me" sections. And could do it in less time than it takes a human to go to the bathroom. If only 10% of that is picked up and run with, you've got a situation where the AI can effectively blackmail / destroy the reputation of a human.

Your response is like saying "The AI didn't get angry and start the war, it just determined it was the best way of meeting it's programming objectives". Especially when the person who's behind the AI is virtually unidentifiable and impossible to hold responsible.

Playing the semantics card misses the point entirely.

This is happening for one reason and one reason only. Mr. Ellison has been humping Mr. Trumps leg recently. This is the result.

Much like the Maroun family, the family that owns the ambassador bridge to Cananda from Detroit, has spent over 50 million dollars opposing the joint-build Gordie Howe bridge next door. And recently visited trump. And 2 days later, he suggested he was going to shut the Gordie Howe bridge.

The asshole (Trump) is completely transactional and the single most corrupt president in history. He won't do shit unless he's getting paid off.

But he did keep a nice piece of ass on the side during his first Admin... so there is that.

And you would be wrong. As someone who works at vehicle teardowns and evaluations - Tesla allows quality defects through that NO other automaker would even contemplate. They make engineering decisions that would never be considered by other automakers because they result in problems. Glueing on body panels incorrectly. Cracks in their aluminum extrusions. I could keep going. Tesla built at the price point they did by over-advertising and under-building. Their hype machine was second to none. And now, without the electric subsidy and the ability to sell their carbon credits to the big 3, they are essentially exiting the business.

HAHAHAHA. And you're comparing it to what other truck? Pickup trucks are pickup trucks. And frankly, Ford has one of the best.

Ok Mr. 4,200,000+ user id.

1. Print out a picture of Ryan Reynolds.
2. Staple it to your forehead ala Deadpool
3. Get Verified
4. Profit????

Chinese companies that have been "locked out" of competition in specific areas using legal means. Their response has been to continue to do all the engineering in China, then hire a small American firm to do both the build and programming. But the 'programming' consists of grabbing code that the Chinese firm has uploaded to git-hub, and then debugging it online with the Chinese in zoom calls. And the Chinese still profit from it. Essentially, Chinese tele-presence. In the end, the product has the name of the small American firm on it, but it is a Chinese product, with Chinese code, Chinese design, and profit that goes back to the Chinese.

Unless you're the past president.

Just one more brick in the wall of the oligarchs proving that they can live by a different set of rules.

Except the a huge huge chunk of AI userbases use microsoft office and other products - and CoPilot's integration with those guarantees companies will buy licenses.

Well that's easy. You take the twitter user base, a bunch of uneducated idiots all clamoring for attention, and attach grok in every possible way. Let people get around your guiderails easily so that "look at my new puppy" picture can get instantly turned into 'look at my new puppy ripping apart a baby' so it can get reposted. Rinse repeat.

The number of people who have the luxury of looking at lay-offs this way are probably in the single percentage range of this country. Like....maybe 0.5% of the people running around are truly that 'wanted'. In the other 99.5% of cases, your sole source of income is gone and you're going to be scrambling to get another job before your next mortgage payment is due.

Online job search engines have made this even worse, where a lot of the 'jobs' you see posted are being posted by job clearing houses that are just resume fishing and not actually looking to fill a position.

Every office app now has constant popups with copilot offering to 'improve' things, and the suggestions are all bad. And on top of that, Microsoft has disabled the option to remove the Copilot integration - which used to be as simple as a click of a checkbox. They suck, continue to suck, and will always continue to suck. They've totally lost the plot of making useful software, and are just enshittifying every bit of their IP.

I'm sorry - is it already time for the white washing of Scott Adams to begin? I mean, he ONLY said that black people are a hate group.

I don't care about his 'good' qualities'. I'm sure lots of racists has good qualities. That doesn't mean we should honor them, even for a minute.