IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
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#2I’m curious how IBM has the metrics to know the productivity multiplier of AI well enough this far in advanced to accurately replace exactly 7800 jobs. Is the plan in place to also provide every surviving HR manager an OpenAI subscription? It seems to early to me but I also don’t have the time or resources to know or even guess the multiplier effects here
Then again maybe they’re just using AI as an excuse to get rid of these jobs? Kind of like they did with layoffs only to them outsource many of their departments to other countries for cost savings?
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#3how do you improve shitty products and shitty service with AI? i dont get it.
Re: IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
#4I’m curious how IBM has the metrics to know the productivity multiplier of AI well enough this far in advanced to accurately replace exactly 7800 jobs. Is the plan in place to also provide every surviving HR manager an OpenAI subscription? It seems to early to me but I also don’t have the time or resources to know or even guess the multiplier effects here Then again maybe they’re just using AI as an excuse to get rid…
> I’m curious how IBM has the metrics to know the productivity multiplier of AI well enough this far in advanced to accurately replace exactly 7800 jobs.
That works out to about 2.5% of their worldwide employee count, which seems pretty conservative to me.
Re: IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
#5how do you improve shitty products and shitty service with AI? i dont get it.
That's the great part, you don't, but you also don't have to pay people.
Re: IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
#6“the PC-maker told the publication.”
Newsflash: IBM hasn’t made PCs in 18 years.
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#7Galaxy brain: write a single news release that is simultaneously responsive to computing industry layoff trend, and LLM/AI trend.
Re: IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
#8how do you improve shitty products and shitty service with AI? i dont get it.
What made you think there will be improvement?
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#9Hasn't IBM had their own AI for years? Why is this a story now?
Re: IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI News
#10“the PC-maker told the publication.” Newsflash: IBM hasn’t made PCs in 18 years.
Maybe it was written by ChatGPT.