Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[CleverNickName]

Robots to dip fries at fast food restaurants seem a lot more likely, given that they're less expensive and are already much closer to coming to market.

McDonalds had fully-automated fry cookers way back in the 1990s. It would take those potatos from frozen to golden brown, then salt and bag them, at the push of a button or on an automatic timer. All we had to do was keep its freezer and oil vats full.

McD's is still hiring.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

McDonalds had fully-automated fry cookers way back in the 1990s. It would take those potatos from frozen to golden brown, then salt and bag them, at the push of a button or on an automatic timer. All we had to do was keep its freezer and oil vats full.

McD's is still hiring.

All my local McDonald's seem to be staffed by a maximum of four people at a time, whereas In N Out -- which has no meaningful automation at the store level -- has closer to two dozen people on per shift.

Automation won't eliminate all jobs, but it'll eliminate a bunch of them.

 

[Scribe]

I actually did some stuff in my job today that AI just can't do and it felt good to push back the idea that AI is coming for me back a few years as a result. (At least, so long as the beancounters see what I'm doing, which is the other challenge.)

Musk also claimed there would be a Tesla autonomous vehicle taxi fleet by 2020. It's amazing how many people buy the Tony Stark hype.

All my local McDonald's seem to be staffed by a maximum of four people at a time, whereas In N Out -- which has no meaningful automation at the store level -- has closer to two dozen people on per shift.

Automation won't eliminate all jobs, but it'll eliminate a bunch of them.

How many people staff the 20 self checkouts at Walmart or ones local grocery store.

 

[CleverNickName]

Automation won't eliminate all jobs, but it'll eliminate a bunch of them.

And even when AI doesn't eliminate jobs, it's a convenient excuse for companies to use. I guess they think it sounds better in the press.

Companies that routinely lay off thousands of workers each year are still doing so...but suddenly they are now all claiming AI is the reason.

 

[Scribe]

And even when AI doesn't eliminate jobs, it's a convenient excuse for companies to use. I guess they think it sounds better in the press.

Companies that routinely lay off thousands of workers each year are still doing so...but suddenly they are now all claiming AI is the reason.

Meta is cutting 8K jobs. This was after they had their engineers meticulously document and harden all the code...to then train AI and fire them already a month or two back.

Another software company gutted its work force as well recently, the one the Twitter guy was part of.

These are not your typical 'cut some costs so the stock numbers get a bump' layoffs.

 

[Gradine]

A big part of the problem is that layoffs are seen, for reasons that definitely make sense in a well-designed economic system, as a sign of a healthy business and so people buy their stock more.

 

[dragoner]

"Charity is a cold hearted thing." Said Clement Attlee on enacting the NHS in the UK. Nobody wants charity. Last month was the birthday of my best friend who committed suicide two years ago, we had been friends since we were 17. Our mutal friend is the head of the local chapter of NAMI, she said poverty is the number one precursor to suicide, especially among the elderly. She had talked with a funeral director, and they told her that finding next of kin was often difficult, in particular with men.

 

[dragoner]

Wow Cretaceous had giant Octopuses, that were intelligent:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285

 

[CleverNickName]

These are not your typical 'cut some costs so the stock numbers get a bump' layoffs.

I maintain that they are.

These companies would still be having mass layoffs anyway, even if AI wasn't a thing. These are the same layoffs they always have, year after year, long before AI became a corporate buzzword.

 

[Scribe]

I maintain that they are.

These companies would still be having mass layoffs anyway, even if AI wasn't a thing. These are the same layoffs they always have, year after year, long before AI became a corporate buzzword.

...I'd have to go back, I certainly don't remember 'we are gutting half our workforce' layoffs until very very recently.