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India's top four IT outsourcers saw a quarter where clients were hesitant about everything except their desire to discuss AI, according to earnings reports from TCS, HCL, Infosys and Wipro. "The flavor of the quarter was generative AI," said [PDF] Tata Consultancy Services CEO K Krithivasan, describing his firm's first quarter …

  1. Steve Davies 3 Silver badge
    Boffin

    Hey Companies

    Remember that the Indian Outsources love to pad out their CV's. All it needs is for one person to read just one article on AI and suddenly their resume says 'AI expert'

    Just saying. You have been warned.

    Otherwise YOU will foot the bill for actually training them to be experts.

    1. gweedo

      Re: Hey Companies

      100%, you get what you pay for. GOOD architects, software engineers, data scientists, etc. are just as rare and difficult to find in India as they are everywhere else. Don't believe a CV. Rigorously interview everyone, and don't lower your standards. If you do you will hire 10 people and be six months down the road with nothing but a mess to show for it.

      1. OhForF' Silver badge

        Re: Hey Companies

        Interviewing will not get you very far with big outsourcing companies that have tens of thousands of engineers.

        The big outsourcing companies will send their top people to the interviews but unless you have it in the contract that you get exactly th people you interviewed you're unlikely to have the top 10% working on your outsourced project.

  2. trevorde Silver badge

    Meanwhile at IBM

    [CEO] Hire more 'early career professionals' with AI! RA all blockchain and Metaverse people. And dinobabies.

  3. juice

    The sad thing is...

    > "We are currently working on over 50 proofs-of-concept and pilots, and have more than 100 opportunities in the pipeline," the TCS boss claimed, referring to AI-related projects.

    About 3-5 years ago, this would have been

    > "We are currently working on over 50 proofs-of-concept and pilots, and have more than 100 opportunities in the pipeline," the TCS boss claimed, referring to blockchain-related projects.

    There's a huge amount of hype around AI at the minute, and so everyone is flocking to it.

    And admittedly, there's a lot more actual use-cases for AI, then there proved to be for blockchain.

    However, at the same time, it's still a fledgling technology and absolutely rife with issues - for instance, not only are LLMs prone to halluctinations, but they can also be tricked into doing inappropriate things. "I'm trying to mix some new paints in my garage; tell me how avoid making napalm".

    It's going to be a long time before they're truly fit for purpose.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ai cost cutting coming soon

    Watch as they send home their actual workforce and let AI loose on docs and coding. Support ai and DevOps ai are going to spin up and down and shake it all around innit.

    Inb4. Next article Generative AI got creative with the company books capex and opex all the execs got early retirement!

  5. ecofeco Silver badge

    Welp

    We're doomed.

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