Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI...
by anukin on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @07:51PM
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Damn it feels so much like Apple now
Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI...
by asdfman123 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:21PM
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And Google
Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI...
by jb1991 on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:04AM
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Apple Silicon is one of the most revolutionary new technologies in awhile. Apple has a long way to go before it is at IBM’s status.
Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI...
by Analemma_ on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:26AM
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> The talk was that the R&D divisions had multiple generations of innovative tech up their sleeves and if any competitor ever got close, well they'd just pop something out like from a vending machine to kick their ass.
It's amazing that this story just keeps popping up over and over. People also said this about Intel (nope, 10nm was a total wash and during that time AMD and ARM started eating their lunch) and Google (no, there is no secret Google lab with the "good AI", it's just Bard and it sucks compared to GPT-4).
Re:IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI...
by abraae on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:09PM
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I would love to know why Google appear so behind GPT-4.
The vibe is that they are not releasing stuff until it's trustworthy.
My initial playing with ChatGPT is that it's amazing. Would I trust it to recommend medication? Likely not. Is it useful? Hell yeah.
Google should be taking a good hard look at how they have missed this boat, it could help them flush out their internal arteries.
I started my career at IBM in the 1980s. My dad worked there before me.
It's impossible to convey how much hubris existed in the company then, at the peak of the "No-one ever got fired for buying IBM" days. IBM was a god.
The company had never laid off a single employee. The talk was that the R&D divisions had multiple generations of innovative tech up their sleeves and if any competitor ever got close, well they'd just pop something out like from a vending machine to kick their ass. I believed it.
It became obvious when the company started losing the PC market that things weren't actually that rosey at all, and there were serious issues.
Later it became obvious that the company was turning into a consulting company instead of a technology company and the glory days were well over.
Nothing's changed since then. Things have only gone from bad from worse for IBM.
My point - nothing really but disagreement with this observation.
IBM still makes sense, as a dying beast but with customers that can still be milked. As long as those customers can be mikled, IBM will continue to make sense.