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Comment on AI will shrink Amazon's workforce in the coming years, CEO Jassy says

disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The nation’s workforce. Forbes predicts a 25% reduction in the US job market by 2035, and Republicans included a provision in the budget reconciliation that prohibits any regulations on AI technology for 10 years to ensure that happens.

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catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That’s gonna be a lot of people unable to afford their bread and circuses.

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- disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It absolutely wont. The only people who believe this are trying to sell AI, or repeating the ones selling AI.

Nobody has a marketable AI product, nobody is making any money on AI, nobody is effectively using AI as a replacement for workers except in the content-slop industry. Not out of charity, but because LLMs can’t do the things that are being constantly promised.

Amazon spend a hundred billion dollars on AI, and made 5 billion on it. That’s income, not profit. OpenAI is scraping together more capital because they’re going broke from not having a product to sell. Everyone using LLMs for anything right now is paying FAR under operating costs, and would stop immediately if they weren’t being funded by VC.

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- disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  LLMs are not personnel replacement ready yet. ML is rapidly taking over logistics and manufacturing.
  
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  - Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sure, a mechanical sorting machine using ML software is something completely different from what they’re talking about here though
    
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    disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Machine learning is a subset of AI, just as large language models are. They’re referring to text input machine learning as generative AI here:
    
    Amazon is using generative AI broadly across its internal operations, including in its fulfillment network where the technology is being deployed to assist with inventory placement, demand forecasting and the efficiency of warehouse robots, Jassy said.
    
    It’s only considered generative based on the user input method of text or speech. If it learned solely from observation, it would be considered machine learning, and if it used algorithms to create the most efficient model of itself, it would be considered deep learning. They’re all forms of AI though.
    
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- StonerCowboy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Lmao you have no idea the Ai tools Amazon is using.
  
  It absolutely will replace SDEs
  
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