Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division

Re:Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division by ryandrake on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:23PM (#38307681)

This is what bothers me about all of this "investment" into AI now. Is it the same thing? Just purely CEO performance art to mollify stupid and uncreative Investment Banking analysts so they can fill in the cell in their spreadsheet that makes stock price go up? "Yes. Mister Johnson at Goldman, we, also have an AI strategy for 2024, very similar to BigCoXyz who you also model..."

It seems that companies don't have to do anything anymore--they just have to spin a story for Wall Street and make sure they lap it up.

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Re:Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division by mjr00 on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:27PM (#38307757)

Of course it is! Just like every company needed a "blockchain strategy" in 2018, every company now needs an "AI strategy". Because just like blockchain, the companies that use AI will crush those who don't... right?

(for what it's worth, I do think LLMs are useful for certain tasks, but it's ridiculous that every company is pivoting to be an "AI company" for no real reason...)

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Re:Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division by fwungy on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:51PM (#38308145)

"It's got electrolytes"

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Re:Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division by hifromLA on Friday November 17, 2023 @02:03PM (#38308339)

Once the dust settles we will realize yes LLMs have some applications. But no they don’t need to be integrated into everything.

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