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Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Shikena(m): 10:33am On Jun 23, 2025
techstack:
Make everybody dey do content, it even more profitable and relaxing that every 8 - 5 jobs
Then the law of demand and supply kicks in, so it becomes less rewarding due to a plethora of choices. Also, the younger generations may adapt better to AI-generated content.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by CryptoPornster(m): 10:35am On Jun 23, 2025
Technology is far advancing but we are failing to understand that the technology is still in its baby stage (not minding the current advancement) and human physical involvement is highly required.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Shikena(m): 10:37am On Jun 23, 2025
richiemcgold:
I've been saying this for long that AI in the next few years is going to render millions of people jobless
It will create different types of jobs. Industrial revolution, micro-miniaturization of computing, cloud computing etc were also seen as job killers in their early days. They all led to new job types.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by ciro11(m): 10:38am On Jun 23, 2025
SmartPolician:
This is AI in 2025! AI in 2030 or 2040 will be more brutal in taking the place of humans. The only jobs that are safe now are agricultural, sports and research jobs.

AI will replace almost all jobs by 2050. Content creators (skit makers, movie makers, writers, graphics, video editing, etc) will be the next category of AI casualties.
That's if humans by then can upgrade AI to the extent that it can learn well enough to develop a good sense of humor. That's for the comedy skit aspect.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by CHAQUR: 10:39am On Jun 23, 2025
Very soon... Fraud might be the only easy way of making money as legit ways are getting closed.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by kings59: 10:40am On Jun 23, 2025
When we were talking about the disadvantages of AI some people were busy saying it's of advantage. I hope you all have seen before using their job to AI.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by GrammarNazi1(m): 10:40am On Jun 23, 2025
SmartPolician:
This is AI in 2025! AI in 2030 or 2040 will be more brutal in taking the place of humans. The only jobs that are safe now are agricultural, sports and research jobs.

AI will replace almost all jobs by 2050. Content creators (skit makers, movie makers, writers, graphics, video editing, etc) will be the next category of AI casualties.
A graphics designer designed fliers for me. Afterwards, I used AI to edit the fliers in order to generate new fliers.

Now, I don't need the graphics designer so much.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by SmartPolician: 10:41am On Jun 23, 2025
MT:
Sport? When AI was already engaged in boxing sport and marathon. Google it.

Research is a play ground for AI.

Agriculture is AI domain. They work better than human. They cultivate better and harvest wey better.
People won't will fill up a 100k-capacity stadium to watch robots play football. Tag me when that starts happening. Any company building such robots will not break even.

Coming to agriculture, robots can only improve what people do. I don't think AI can completely replace humans in agriculture because using humans that can operate farm implements will always be cheaper than using robots outright. An advanced human-like robot can sell for $500k. Does buying one make an economic sense?

For research, people developed deep learning models that run AI tools. No, AI cannot replace research. What AI gives you today is what humans have programmed it to give you based on the amount of data trained while they were developing the neural networks. Humans will always pioneer new research (I don't mean regular academic research studies) to solve problems we don't have solutions to yet. AI can only play a supportive role in that space.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by anochilar(m): 10:44am On Jun 23, 2025
obonujoker:
Study courses in the university that Ai Cannot take over such as Medicine, Engineering, etc
In a test of quality health care delivery in Canada, human doctors vs AI doctor, the human doctors scored 67 percent in proper diagnosis, and treatment, AI scored 75 percent.
In Israel, some hospitals are already using AI doctors.
So figure it out.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by ccollins(m): 10:45am On Jun 23, 2025
kettykin:
AI will take over the medical, law and some parts of engineering like computing, mechanical, materials, polymer, others like Civil , chemical Agriculture will be under intense competition. Law is already gone , Business Administration, 🖥 and IT ,programmers etc
joker. Such will never Come to pass as the God of Isreal is the Almighty God forever and ever
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Albertone(m): 10:48am On Jun 23, 2025
anochilar:
In a test of quality health care delivery in Canada, human doctors vs AI doctor, the human doctors scored 67 percent in proper diagnosis, and treatment, AI scored 75 percent.
In Israel, some hospitals are already using AI doctors.
So figure it out.
So AI will do Surgery too?

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Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Albertone(m): 10:49am On Jun 23, 2025
ccollins:
joker. Such will never Come to pass as the God of Isreal is the Almighty God forever and ever
Is the God of Israel not the one that gave them knowledge of AI creation?
So God will give knowledge and not expect if to be utilised?
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Procashtips(m): 10:51am On Jun 23, 2025
There are hotels in Japan and Chine with 0 human staff.

There is a port in China with 0 human staff outside, only few hands in a small enclosure controlling automation and the port is running more effectively than those with 90% humans.

Before it becomes too late, this is the time for you to start planning your exit or be too important that AI won't be able to replace you.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Procashtips(m): 10:52am On Jun 23, 2025
Albertone:
So AI will do Surgery too?

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Some hospitals are already using machines to carry out surgeries.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Procashtips(m): 10:53am On Jun 23, 2025
ccollins:
joker. Such will never Come to pass as the God of Isreal is the Almighty God forever and ever
NIGERIANS AND THEIR OVER RELIGIOUNEss.

Una no just like to think out of the box for once.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Dogalmighty17: 10:54am On Jun 23, 2025
obonujoker:
Study courses in the university that Ai Cannot take over such as Medicine, Engineering, etc
Medicine or doctors particularly are the first professionals that will be replaced entirely by AI.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Gracefulman(m): 10:56am On Jun 23, 2025
WHATEVER TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL REMOVE FOOD FROM PEOPLES MOUTH SHOULD BETTER NOT BE DISCOVERED. WETIN NAA.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by walosky(m): 10:58am On Jun 23, 2025
IBM patented in Israel.

Ai be running people over ...smh !
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Albertone(m): 11:05am On Jun 23, 2025
Procashtips:
Some hospitals are already using machines to carry out surgeries.
Tell that to a Medical Doctor and they will all laugh their asses off.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by HenryWilliams(m): 11:08am On Jun 23, 2025
figomitchelle:
It seems that this Ai stuff is slowly taking over the world market please how do someone learn this Ai
You can't learn from AI.
Humans created AI to help them do the work they're too lazy to do.
Now AI will come and do those jobs perfectly and efficiently every single time..
It has a brain that keeps evolving every second whilst you humans are getting dumber every generation.
After a while , the AI doing your work for you would start doing your thinking for you, by then humans will become a drag and a nuisance with your needles wars and self inflicted hardship and suffering on each other?
You destroy the environment, poliute the waters, kill animal and plant life ..you're destroyers .you think AI doesn't know that?

Soon after all said and done .humans will come to the realization that AI(after being given control of just about every facet of human life )isn't the way and would try to destroy it or shut it down or limit it's capabilities and influence..you think AI would just go quietly into the night?
How long do you think AI will stand back and watch y'all destroy the Earth?


The future is scary..
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by KIDfurniture(m): 11:16am On Jun 23, 2025
Very beautiful
Human beings wahala too much - them wan eat food , go on breaks and admire yash






Great100000:
Source: https://glassalmanac.com/ibm-laid-off-8000-employees-to-replace-them-with-ai-what-they-didnt-expect-was-having-to-rehire-as-many-due-to-ai/
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by fineboynl(m): 11:17am On Jun 23, 2025
Make them stop the rough play oh.

Look like the world population will shrink in the coming generations.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Bintasukai: 11:20am On Jun 23, 2025
obonujoker:
AI will only be used for repetitive tasks, but decision making etc in Medicine, Engineering, etc, will remain with Humans.
Very funny, ever heard of automated decision making?
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by dreamxhaser: 11:42am On Jun 23, 2025
SmartPolician:
This is AI in 2025! AI in 2030 or 2040 will be more brutal in taking the place of humans. The only jobs that are safe now are agricultural, sports and research jobs.

AI will replace almost all jobs by 2050. Content creators (skit makers, movie makers, writers, graphics, video editing, etc) will be the next category of AI casualties.
You got this information from Twitter and Reddit, right?

Saying graphics designers, video editors, and content creators are the same thing is the first sign that you don’t know what you are talking about.

Graphics designers, Software Engineers, Video Editors, etc., will definitely be impacted by AI in the future. However, content creators will not be replaced; instead, they will harness AI to become more creative and productive.

Content creators are like CEOs (business owners). Their problem is understanding how humans react to AI-generated content compared to their own. And I think they have nothing to worry about because:

1. Okay, let me ask you, would you prefer to watch a movie written and acted by humans, or something totally generated by a machine? (The same goes for skits).


2. Will you buy a book, fiction or nonfiction, written by humans or something generated by AI?

3. Will you listen to music by Davido or something generated by AI?

Now, in case you mention writers, there are two types of writers: authors (self-employed creators) and employed writers (copywriters, article/blog writers, resume writers, academic writers, etc.).

The difference between the two is that authors are experts who create content for consumers (humans). They are self-employed and will remain relevant in the market for the next few years because of human connection.

While the latter are not different from SWEs (Software Engineers), graphic designers, etc., because they are just employees for companies, startups, or small business owners writing soulless content (like product descriptions) that no one cares about.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by MT: 11:49am On Jun 23, 2025
SmartPolician:
People won't will fill up a 100k-capacity stadium to watch robots play football. Tag me when that starts happening. Any company building such robots will not break even.

Coming to agriculture, robots can only improve what people do. I don't think AI can completely replace humans in agriculture because using humans that can operate farm implements will always be cheaper than using robots outright. An advanced human-like robot can sell for $500k. Does buying one make an economic sense?

For research, people developed deep learning models that run AI tools. No, AI cannot replace research. What AI gives you today is what humans have programmed it to give you based on the amount of data trained while they were developing the neural networks. Humans will always pioneer new research (I don't mean regular academic research studies) to solve problems we don't have solutions to yet. AI can only play a supportive role in that space.
Your first paragraph was premised on your assumption. Utterly subjective. Already lot of people came to watch robots boxed and the marathon.

Agriculture doesn’t need 500 USD . That’s an exaggeration. Ordinary drones that could spray hectares of land within minutes than humans that would take months. Different AI models are coming out that can cultivate, till grounds , plant within a few minutes over large hectares of land.

AI can generate new ideas better than human. Let me refer you to this experiment carried out by a researcher at the University of Toronto. Focus on paragraph 3 & 4 particularly .- https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/creativity-innovation-business-design/ai-constraints
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by dreamxhaser: 11:52am On Jun 23, 2025
MT:
Your first paragraph was premised on your assumption. Utterly subjective. Already lot of people came to watch robots boxed and the marathon.

Agriculture doesn’t need 500 USD . That’s an exaggeration. Ordinary drones that could spray hectares of land within minutes than humans that would take months. Different AI models are coming out that can cultivate, till grounds , plant within a few minutes over large hectares of land.

AI can generate new ideas better than human. Let me refer you to this experiment carried out by a researcher at the University of Toronto. Focus on paragraph 3 & 4 particularly .- https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/creativity-innovation-business-design/ai-constraints
Bro things are not black or white like you people make it to be. People came to watch robot boxing Becuse it’s one of the first of its kind.

Even you typing this will prefer to pay $100 to watch humans box than pay even $50 to watch robot box.

Bro there is something called human touch, connection, etc.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by MT: 11:55am On Jun 23, 2025
dreamxhaser:
Bro things are not black or white like you people make it to be. People came to watch robot boxing Becuse it’s one of the first of its kind.

Even you typing this will prefer to pay $100 to watch humans box than pay even $50 to watch robot box.

Bro there is something called human touch, connection, etc.
You keep on shifting the goalpost. I wish you well.
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by dreamxhaser: 12:03pm On Jun 23, 2025
MT:
You keep on shifting the goalpost. I wish you well.
Lol I am not the same person you mentioned earlier. Even that person made some false claims and I corrected him/her.

Wish you well too
Re: IBM Sacked 8,000 Employees To Replace Them With AI by Stephenomozzy(m): 12:12pm On Jun 23, 2025
atobs4real:
Thank God for my job role. AI can not replace marketing that requires critical thinking
Dey play. Can you crunch data faster than a machine? If you're a member in the department and not the head, yup.... it will reduce the members in a marketing department by a humble 70% - even as of today - for organizations that know how to chain tools of automation together - at the end of the day critical thinking (on available data) is what AI does for breakfast.
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