https://www.guru3d.com/story/microsoft-to-reduce-sales-workforce-as-ai-spending-grows/

https://www.guru3d.com/story/intel-layoffs-up-to-20-percent-of-chip-factory-jobs-affected/

That’s why I’m saying “please” and “thank you”, not just manners, but a bit of future-proofing, just in case

5 hours ago, martin-w said:

 

Actually, you used the fact that an Atari beat an AI at chess to bolster your claim that AI is all hype.

I simply pointed out that it isn't true that AI can't beat a simple outdated Atari chess engine... as Stockfish in an AI chess engine and undefeatable by human or an outdated Atari.

AI may be all hype... but you'll need better evidence.

 

Fair enough, how about some examples where AI failed to do exactly what it was designed to do?

Call of Duty has how many millions of players?  For a holiday event, they had a 6 fingered character on the main splash screen of the game. 

https://gamerant.com/call-of-duty-black-ops-6-ai-loading-screen-controversy/

An example of AI trying to replace human artists and making a fairly large mistake.  This blunder was all over the gaming news.  

 

An AI writer tried to create a list of books to read over the summer.  A fairly simple thing to write I would think?  Not exactly deep journalism, just list some popular books.

The AI picked 100% real authors, but 66% of the book titles were hallucinated.  

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/chicago-sun-times-prints-summer-reading-list-full-of-fake-books/

 

Now, will AI improve?  Of course, but this "AI will steal jobs in the next year" seems like a bit of a stretch, in my opinion (and nearly 30 years in the industry).  

In my opinion, the hype is way beyond the technology right now.  

There's been many more examples.  The recent Fantastic Four movie trailer (movie companies spend millions on marketing) had all sorts of weird things people found.

Also, are there AI success stories?  Honestly I don't hear about them, but maybe they are out there?  

 

Edited June 19, 2025Jun 19 by kerosene31

On 6/18/2025 at 1:14 PM, G-RFRY said:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/amazon-boss-tells-staff-ai-means-their-jobs-are-at-risk-in-coming-years/ar-AA1GWbve

Pretty much any job that entails performing repetitive computer tasks or tasks that require fast analysis of large data sets will eventually be replaced by machines.

An algorithm can recognize patterns and associations gleaned from its ability to analyze vast amounts of data.  With AI, it can remember those patterns and associations and learn from them so that next time it produces different results or analyzes in a different way, something that a human can do but much more slowly and laboriously.  I doubt that it can truly create something, or understand nuance, or make jokes, yet.  Maybe it can, as to be honest I don't follow it very closely.

I'm sure that eventually AI will eventually be able to mimic human thinking, and then we're going to see this technology replace even more jobs.

Dave

8 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

Fair enough, how about some examples where AI failed to do exactly what it was designed to do?

 

There are lots. It's a new and developing technology. Of course, they call it AI, Artificial Inteligence, but that's not what it really is. AGI would be true artificial intelligence.

My only point was that it's not true that AI chess engines can't beat an Atari. That was only true for the compromised version in your article. Thus it wasn't a good example of AI being hype.

There certainly is "hype around AI. It's like everybody has gone AI obsessed. But I wouldn't say it's "mostly" hype, as you said. I think thats an exaggeration.

The impact LLMs is having on businesses is already significant. My daughter is a director of a business consultancy and she is seeing it having a significant impact.

If you watch the video I posted, the so called "godfather of AI" Al Geoffrey Hinton, seems very convinced the impact will be very significant and soon.

Edited June 19, 2025Jun 19 by martin-w

I think the combination of Quantum Compute and AI are going to bring results the likes of which we couldn't dream of or imagine.  That also mean quantum cryptography and rethinking everything we think we know about security but I think quantum is going to be tremendous for AI's capabilities...  

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nvidia-products-could-be-made-using-humanoid-robots-for-the-first-time-ever-company-in-talks-with-foxconn-to-deploy-them-in-houston-factory-building-gb300-ai-servers

I'm still waiting for my Japanese sex robots to arrive in the mail!  🤖

14 hours ago, charliearon said:

I'm still waiting for my Japanese sex robots to arrive in the mail!  🤖

 

You should order 3, In case you wear them out,  Charlie. But please don't sell the old ones on eBay. 🤨

 

 

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/nvidia-books-entire-server-plant-capacity-through-2026-pushing-out-other-potential-customers-to-build-blackwell-and-rubin-ai-servers

An update just hit my phone, and I am now in AI hell.  I bought the phone, I pay for the service, but AI now owns my phone.

Here's just a few things that no longer work:

-Power button - Nope!  Silly human cannot have this.  Now, holding down the power just brings up Google AI.  You have to speak to tell it to reboot your phone.  The kicker?  I had to ask AI how to reboot my phone.  The answer?  "Hold down the power button".  Well, that just brings the AI back up.  Stuck in an infinite loop.  The AI doesn't even know how to work anything.  The only way to reboot is to convince AI to do it.  

Wifi, bluetooth, volume, do not disturb settings - All gone.  Use AI now.  I used to have these things called buttons, and they were right on top of my screen when I swiped down.  

So, if you are in a sitation where speeaking would disturb people around you?  Oh well.  

(it is a pet peeve of mine when people speak into their phones in croweded public spaces, but I guess we're forced to do that now?)

The best part, I got the standard 2001 answer when I asked AI to uninstall itself.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that"  (OK it wasn't quite that, but it literally told me "no".  

Now, I'm not some technophobe, I'm close to 30 years working in IT (and much longer if you count my childhood spent learning them).  I like technology, when it works and makes sense.  This is infinitely worse.  It is a terrible interface.  I'm not one of these old people who gripe at every change (well I am old).  

We have a phrase for this in the IT field, "A solution in search of a problem".  

Another fun thing, my battery now drains much faster as well.  

I.  Want.  A.  Button.  Not an "AI assistant"

 

Edited July 16, 2025Jul 16 by kerosene31

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-plans-multi-gw-data-center-thats-nearly-the-size-of-manhattan-zuckerberg-promises-enormous-ai-splash-as-company-uses-tents-to-try-and-keep-up-with-rate-of-expansion

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/investigation-reveals-google-gemini-for-workspace-flaw-that-could-have-been-exploited-to-enlist-the-ai-in-phishing-schemes-summarize-this-email-tool-would-faithfully-obey-malicious-instructions-hidden-inside-an-email

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/coreweave-to-invest-usd6-billion-in-pennsylvania-ai-center-targeting-up-to-300-mw-capacity-just-days-after-the-governor-threatened-to-pull-the-state-from-the-grid-over-skyrocketing-demand

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tensorwave-just-deployed-the-largest-amd-gpu-training-cluster-in-north-america-features-8-192-mi325x-ai-accelerators-tamed-by-direct-liquid-cooling

3 hours ago, kerosene31 said:

An update just hit my phone, and I am now in AI hell.  I bought the phone, I pay for the service, but AI now owns my phone.

Here's just a few things that no longer work:

-Power button - Nope!  Silly human cannot have this.  Now, holding down the power just brings up Google AI.  You have to speak to tell it to reboot your phone.  The kicker?  I had to ask AI how to reboot my phone.  The answer?  "Hold down the power button".  Well, that just brings the AI back up.  Stuck in an infinite loop.  The AI doesn't even know how to work anything.  The only way to reboot is to convince AI to do it.  

Wifi, bluetooth, volume, do not disturb settings - All gone.  Use AI now.  I used to have these things called buttons, and they were right on top of my screen when I swiped down.  

So, if you are in a sitation where speeaking would disturb people around you?  Oh well.  

(it is a pet peeve of mine when people speak into their phones in croweded public spaces, but I guess we're forced to do that now?)

The best part, I got the standard 2001 answer when I asked AI to uninstall itself.

"I'm sorry, I'm afraid I can't do that"  (OK it wasn't quite that, but it literally told me "no".  

Now, I'm not some technophobe, I'm close to 30 years working in IT (and much longer if you count my childhood spent learning them).  I like technology, when it works and makes sense.  This is infinitely worse.  It is a terrible interface.  I'm not one of these old people who gripe at every change (well I am old).  

We have a phrase for this in the IT field, "A solution in search of a problem".  

Another fun thing, my battery now drains much faster as well.  

I.  Want.  A.  Button.  Not an "AI assistant"

 

Quick update on my phone drama.  I was finally able to get some control over my phone back from AI.  I tried searching google, but no luck, as that's all AI, and AI has no idea that I don't want AI on my phone.  

I spent two hours randomly in settings.  I finally figured out that if I swipe down, then swipe left, I can get my old buttons.  Inside there was a setting that I could finally get them back!  

My point is: AI is supposed to replace us in our jobs?  The technology is nowhere near being ready (or at least the parts of it we see).  Maybe there's some high end AI that businesses keep to themselves that actually does something useful?

 

I remember reading a sci-fi story once where the AI rebelled and the war took less than a second as they simply shorted out all the interfaces installed in our heads at that point.....