One benefit of AI is it allows generic multifunctional robotics for quick retooling and flexibility.

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Originally posted by Leemur:
I keep telling people that the biggest controllable expense for a company is usually payroll and if they want to keep a job, they better show up every day and perform. No one listens.

That's good advice for anyone holding a job. Unfortunately there are many jobs that will be displaced by AI and AI controlled robotics regardless of employee performance.

Humans fail. We get sick, we need rest and when a new human is needed it requires training. Robots and AI fail but are easily replaced or repaired. As AI "learns" the job, it retains that knowledge which can be used and augmented in later generations of robotics. It is the cumulative effect of learning and continuing advances in robotics that will present an ROI that human employees can never match.

Yeah, I know a bleak view but I watch the headlong rush into AI data centers, 50 planned in PA alone, and the future is automating any repetitive task.

Do you think Bezos cares about cutting 600,000 workers?

Bezos wants to be the biggest, baddest bastard on the block.
If he could go 95% automated, I think he would.
Some executives/CEO’s… don’t see people as “people”. They see people as a number, a thing, a cog. SomeTHING that is needed to achieve a certain product or amount of product. So laying off 600,000 “things” in order to become more streamlined, more efficient and cost effective, well, get rid of all those things.

If cutting 600,000 people is going to save him a couple million dollars each year, well, looks like there’s 600,000 people standing in the unemployment line. Yet, that big, blue truck will still be stopping in front of everyone’s house.

You know, it does boggle the mind. How much is enough?

This man has billions. For me? Give me a million and I'll happily ride off into the sunset. For some of these mega-billionaires, nothing is enough.

I'm all for capitalism, but I sometimes wonder if there is a need to put a muzzle on some of these people.

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Do you know the 3 most dangerous letters in the English language?

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My dad was a pretty smart guy. He had a lot of weird little sayings.
“You can satisfy need, but you can’t satisfy greed.”

Like I said, he was a pretty smart guy.

UPS may be dropping 20,000 jobs but it’s not because Amazon is doing poorly; rather it’s because Amazon is expanding their own airline and van delivery service. Plus they are using more USPS.

Amazon is not the only company seeking to automate. Many companies are struggling to find labor. It isn't that the people aren't out there, it is that no one wants to work in a warehouse or distribution center anymore.

People who used to make up most of that work force all want to be social media influencers, YouTube starts, Instagram models, etc. Even with higher levels of automation in place its tough to do labor modeling for many companies. You can't model labor that doesn't want to work.