HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use
Product development, internal operations among teams expected to be hit hardest.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
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in reply to along_the_road • • •If the AI bubble pops, you can bet the layoffs will be the result of AI, though not in the way people usually mean by this. Honestly, as much as I don't want to see what it does to the world, I'm still curious what would/will happen.
You simply cannot replace people with AI. The statement itself is nonsense. Even so-called "agentic" AI cannot replace an employee in all aspects of work. You would need AGI to approach that.
Like the article mentions, it's just an excuse to fire people.
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in reply to along_the_road • • •So HP is geared towards buggy products and shit customer support.
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masterofn001
in reply to leftascenter • • •If you've ever used their printers you'd already know the company does not make consumer goods. They make soul sucking, joy draining, black holes of money, wrapped in a subscription service that locks all your purchases based on whatever the fuck they feel like.
And the last time I had to open up an HP PC I cursed their existence. So much useless stupid plastic that makes repair/upgrade tedious to say the least.
Fuck HP with all the printer cartridges that are still good but unusable because DRM greedy ceos.
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in reply to along_the_road • • •I'm so glad we're currently using Dell. If we had substantial buy-in to HP products, this nonsense would all but require us to switch to another vendor.
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in reply to along_the_road • • •AI is a wonderful tool capable of streamlining many tasks and making some things far more efficient.
This is not what it is good for. This is idiotic. I can't wait to see this blow up in their face.
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in reply to along_the_road • • •For those unaware, HP recently secured one of the most idiotic deals I have ever seen a state-level government agree to: all laptops in Quebec purchased with public funds must be HP laptops. They said this will "encourage competition in the laptop market."
I can't wait to see this new decision blow up in HP's face.