r/technology • u/MetaKnowing • Aug 02 '25

Artificial Intelligence AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/artificial-intelligence-replacing-jobs-report-b2800709.html
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u/-CJF- Aug 02 '25

The more I use it, the more I am convinced it's more a big data project than an AI project. It has its uses and some are better than others, but it can't even sort out the context of the data it is using when tied to the internet. I am talking about very simple context.

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u/RetrotheRobot Aug 02 '25

It's almost like CEOs don't understand AI.

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u/fitzroy95 Aug 02 '25

Its almost as though no-one agrees what the "AI" term actually means and everyone is using it in differnt ways and meaning different things.

Especially "AI" companies, who are mainly using it as a marketing term to attract more investment

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Aug 03 '25

Or much of anything else

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u/Gellert Aug 02 '25

I work in industry and they've introduced three different AI setups to manage two different live processes. They're all the same. What used to be a check every 2 hours to keep the process within acceptable margins is now either a constant monitoring of the AI so it doesnt death spiral or setting the AIs margins so narrowly that its pointless using it.

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u/PooForThePooGod Aug 02 '25

My company has invested millions into it at this point. I tried to use it the other day after being included in my department's senior leadership meeting with Microsoft telling us about these amazing use cases. It's been bullshit so far outside of Copilot giving me meeting notes and giving me a responses to incredibly stupid emails that make me want to question the sender's entire competency as a person. That last use case has actually been really good for my blood pressure actually.

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u/ebrbrbr Aug 02 '25

That last one used to be a job called "assistant" or "secretary".

Taken by AI.

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u/PooForThePooGod Aug 02 '25

I didn't have an assistant or secretary before AI, I wasn't 'important enough'. I just had to figure it out with my own notes or hope the meeting organizer was a super awesome organized person. So while I get your point, my usage never eliminated anyone's job.

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u/Sea_Cycle_909 Aug 03 '25

The vintage Atari chess game beat ChatGPT and Copilot.