Companies' pretense that they don't need skilled workers is a bluff move in the struggle between labor and capital. It is an attempt to devalue workers and lower their wages. The bluff cant be sustained for long.

Companies seek to monopolise skill and knowledge within these AI and encourage people to know nothing and pay them for skills/knowledge instead. This can only end poorly when it becomes uneconomical to provide this service to consumers but has also made those consumers devoid of skills/knowledge.

Relying on a chatbot to do work for you that isn't bulk writing or giving your customers the runaround is a recipe for disaster. Now, I'll grant you that this is a very advanced chatbot, but just because it can fool the average CEO, doesn't mean it can do much of anything truly useful.

That being said, do you really (and by “you” I mean all the lurkers as well) think this whole thing will backfire in the long run?

It's backfiring now by deleting databases, overwriting important configuration files, and leaving sensitive information in the wild.

Now, I agree, AI isn't going away: Like any other kind of massive fuck-up, by the time the current crop of suckers learn their lessons, there'll be a new crop ready to make the same mistakes again.

Without some major breakthrough that actually results in real artificial intelligence, I don't see how any of this is sustainable long term. Things feel just like they did back in 2007 when everyone and their mom was buying a house to flip using an adjustable rate mortgage and you'd be stupid not to join them.

i do think its mostly about an excuse for workforce reduction rather than pull some other bullshit excuse from their ass they can use this one,for a time at least.

An example is here in Australia our biggest bank, CBA, crowed they reduced their workforce and saved a bunch from AI, turned out they just literally offshored and hired in India

Eventually customers will get super frustrated with telling the chatbot that this didn't solve the problem.