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Can AI do 40% of your job? Block’s Jack Dorsey thinks so. (www.theguardian.com)
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The hed here is a bit misleading ... 40% of total staff is not 40% of an individual job.

Jack Dorsey cited AI as the driving force behind cutting 40% of his company’s employees, but other factors such as a weak crypto market, overstaffing and a declining stock price may also have motivated the move.

Last week, the financial technology company Block announced that it would lay off 4,000 of its 10,000 workers. Dorsey, Block’s CEO, said in a letter to shareholders that advances in AI “have changed what it means to build and run a company”.

“We’re already seeing it internally. A significantly smaller team, using the tools we’re building, can do more and do it better. And intelligence tool capabilities are compounding faster every week,” he wrote. He also said that Block’s business remained strong and that these cuts weren’t an austerity measure.

Can AI operate 40% of a business? Perhaps, but other specters haunt Dorsey’s company.

I'd be surprised if LLMs can handle 40% of anyone's job. You know what often can? Good, old-fashioned automation. It handles tedious tasks no one wanted to do in the first place and produces improved, predictable and testable results.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 13 hours ago

Hahahahahah they tried tonuse AI at my job last year and and didnt even get the address right for the building the team was working in after they told it. Now they trying to use it as a archiving system to read old docs and supply information. Sounds great on paper but you ask it how to make a cheese pizza and it says brings out the engine oil.