[arista]

[BT to replace 10,000 workers with AI
as part of wider cull of up to 55,000 staff in bid to
slash costs.
BT will cut up to 55,000 jobs by the end
of the decade, with nearly a fifth of those
replaced by technologies like artificial intelligence,
in an effort to become a "leaner" business,
the company said.

7 hours ago]


[BT boss Philip Jansen said the telecoms giant
would be a 'huge beneficiary' of AI technology]


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elligence.html


Sign Of The Times

[LeatherTrumpet]

ITS STARTING

[Zizu]

Can’t be any worse than the current set up tbh


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[Barry.]

There here……

[bitontheslide]

thats why all the meta jobs are going too. Most IT companies are shedding staff due to AI

Microsoft have an AI code generator assistant for a small monthly sub. You tell it what you want in plain english and it spits out the code

[Barry.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

thats why all the meta jobs are going too. Most IT companies are shedding staff due to AI

Microsoft have an AI code generator assistant for a small monthly sub. You tell it what you want in plain english and it spits out the code

That’s scary

[Soldier Boy]

Originally Posted by Barry.

That’s scary

What makes it especially scary is that the AI is not creative, it generates a chimera of copied code from already available code, and what it creates time and time again has been shown to be FULL of security holes.

[Alf]

Doesn't effect me. We have our own telephone company in Hull. We're not on the BT. We're KC, Kingston Communications.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

Doesn't effect me. We have our own telephone company in Hull. We're not on the BT. We're KC, Kingston Communications.

Sure, not being with BT
is a bonus.

But all these big AI changes
means they are alone answering Emails
(SkyNewsHD Report)

It will spread to Kingston Communications
as it makes more money for them.

[Mystic Mock]

Psycho-Pass here we come!

We just need the Sibyl System to help condition our mental state.

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

ITS STARTING

[arista]

[arista]

[Soldier Boy]

OK so... not to be an ol' gammon... and not to say that job losses ANYWHERE aren't terrible... and not that it isn't a bad harbinger of things to come .... ... ... ...

But BT's customer service department has not been based in the UK for over a decade. That's 10k jobs being lost in India, not here.

I also morally don't know if it's worse to use AI to answer emails and online chats, or pay call centre staff in other countries Ł1 an hour to do it.

[bitontheslide]

a lot of customer support is already handled by AI. It was silently introduced and trialed and very few folk actually noticed

We can guess at the effect AI has on job sectors now, but no-one really has a clue where it will all end up in 5-10 years

Nothing in my life time has been a bigger deal than AI and I could put it up there with the invention of the wheel in terms of its likely impact going forward

[Soldier Boy]

This is why it's good to work in the fluffy 3rd sector where "the human touch" is actually one of the major selling points so they're never going to start replacing people with Johnny 5.

[arista]

[Alf]

Originally Posted by arista

It may be, but as we've seen in many cases lately, the teachers are also a threat to education.

Between a rock and a hard place.

[arista]