Posts by Excelziore

Did someone say AI agents, Google asks, bursting in

So the promised AI synergy is the same, but with less and more?

I.e. decreased employee headcount (less), but increased subscription and license cost per remaining employee (more), resulting in losses for society (unemployment), gains for software vendors and a net zero impact for the customers of those software vendors, and maybe even a loss since people are more flexible than AI...

And AI agent financial management seems to be a must including financial observability in real-time at the trace level...

Diversity, equity, and inclusion is not an illusion, but it soon might be

Re: Seems to match

Except the AI tool filters out those CVs anyway, so HR never gets a chance anonymize them and the manager never sees them.

Uber CEO warns robotaxis can't find a fast route to commercial viability

The average car is parked 95% of the time...

The problem is that you have to choose between fulfilling peak demand or average demand.

If you fulfill peak demand customers will be happy, but the economics don't wok since the robo-cars are mostly idle. And also it will mean the same number of cars on the road as today...

If you fulfill average demand you customers will be pissed they can't get a robo-car, so once again the economics don't work since too few customers are paying.

Hmmm, it's like maybe a different mode of transportation may be the actual solution...maybe something public? Network of well-built public transport? <irony>I wonder when someone will invent that concept...</irony>

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year

The jobs are gone yes, but the tasks still need to be done...

"No longer are IT organizations populated with secretaries, data-entry operators, administrative monitoring clerks, and a massive help desk staff..."

Well, I would say that "on-the-ground" these same tasks have now been transferred to more "qualified" and more expense roles, that are expected to do both their own job and the job of the roles that no longer exist...and then additionally manage "AI" tools that may add even more extra work...

GenAI comes for jobs once considered 'safe' from automation

The AI bride...

Generative AI - You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

GAI is not AGI...

Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI

Sample and remix MUSIC --> you need a license. Sample and remix TEXT --> do as you please?

What's the difference?

Bernie Sanders clocks in with 4-day workweek bill thanks to AI and productivity tech

Imagine how much tax revenue would have increased if salaries had increased at the same rate as productivity. What we need is a 32 hour work-week and salary increases to pay for all the things that society needs. That might require some...ahem...reallocation though...

AI-generated bug reports are seriously annoying for developers

The net productivity impact of AI?

It will be interesting to see what the actual net productivity impact of AI will be?

Something like: Net AI productivity = AI productivity boost minus AI productivity waste. It's not clear that it will be a net positive for all use cases...

What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines

Copyright is related to human effort, no human effort, no copyright...

Copyright is intended to incentivize human effort. People (or the companies that represent them) get a temporary monopoly on their work so that they are fairly compensated which enables them to contribute more effort to create more new work.

Work by animals can't be copyrighted. They aren't humans. AI is no different than a monkey or a Dog in this regard, i.e. work produced by AI shouldn't have copyright protection.

Since this isn't completely settled yet, we aren't ready to have a discussion to decide about using copyrighted material for training AI, compensation, licensing, etc.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

Who is being reasonable in the conflict?

What I have read is that the union, IF metall, has given Tesla at least 3 options that it finds acceptable:

1) Negotiate a collective agreement between Tesla and the union.

2) Tesla joins an employers association and lets them negotiate with the union on Tesla's behalf.

3) Tesla outsources it's employees to a third-party that has a collective agreement.

Collective agreements set a "floor". Employers can always offer better terms and conditions if they so choose.

Tesla has apparently said no to all three options. The union started this discussion in 2017 and decided to take action in 2023.

In other news Tesla Sweden apparently owes a local vendor more than 4 million SEK. Tesla has refused to pay the invoice which has been sent to a collection agency.