Just another trillion dollars guys! Just another year and a half! I swear!

Remember 18 months ago when all programmers and software engineers were going to be replaced.... Still waiting.....

He has just given himself an eighteen month deadline to succeed or lose his own job. At least, that’s how I’d interpret it if I was in a position to fire his ass.

Oh it's like fusion. AGI in 18 months, and in 18 months it'll be another 18 months, and in another 18 months it'll be yet another 18 months, and in 50 years it'll be in 18 months.

By some of the original estimates we're supposed to all be dead due to a nuclear war genetically engineered virus released by an AI by now. But nope, were all still here, the lying bastards.

So 18 months still before the bubble bursts?

Blowing their load already I see. AI can't even automate individual tasks I do, it's not going to do shit to my job in 2 years

Uh huh. Sure. I give it 18 months before AI is a footnote.

Oh cool so that means Star Citizen will be finished by then, right? AI should be able to build an even better version from scratch in a few hours, surely

Maybe he is just trying to keep his job for another 18 months to get a huge payday.

AI has failed to effectively replace a single profession so far, and I do not see it fully replacing it in that timeframe.

so thats when the bubble will pop.

I mean, the idea that all white-collar jobs could be automated is obviously stupid. But even if just 50% could be made redundant by increased productivity, or 20%, that would generate enormous downward pressure on wages and salaries and turn this kind of job into college-degree burger flipping, economically.

The world went through the very similar blue-collar job destruction in the 80s and 90s. Back then, Conservatives decided this was all a Very Good Thing, and Neoliberals shrugged. The made vast swaths of industrial areas suddenly derelict and impoverished. It's hard to believe that Detroit was once one of the wealthiest cities in America.

We must tax companies that use AI to reduce workforce to offset cost benefits. Society will have to deal with the suddenly impoverished accountants and lawyers and needs extra revenue.

The worst part of this AI revolution is that it affects most directly those that have the least experience, as it's easier to replace an entrant with software. Yet another way young people are screwed, yet another way society absolutely needs to step in to make sure the next generation has a fighting chance.

Or else Microsoft will fold?

That'd be nice

In 18 months I can see us where the Star Wars universe portrayed droids. As in 'Oh great, another talking tin can, just what the galaxy needs. Can someone turn this thing off?'

With the things trending the way they are it will be more expensive than one by then too.

tell him to automate these nuts

lol. Lmao, even

I can't imagine saying anything so wildly ignorant in my professional career. He should be fired for publicly saying something that makes Microsoft sound like they have no idea what is going on in the real world.

He's lying.

"You first."

Anyone who actually thinks this must not actually do a whole lot and probably could be automated really easily, AI or not.

Can someone make a crying bro meme? Surely fits this (I have 0 meme skills. Just like my social skills)

Bigfoot, Bermuda Triangle, AI taking over jobs.

Put it on polymarket or something, I want to make some money off of such stupidity.

JFC jobs aren’t getting automated they are getting enhanced.

Work will shift it’s not going away.

This hyperbolic c suite AI nonsense is pure pump and dump.

all professional tasks” being done by AI. Most tasks that involve “sitting down at a computer” will be fully automated by AI within the next year or 18 months,

So does that include working in AI? In 18 months we will have the AI program itself?

Quite the blanket statement, and as always with blanket statements, they are probably false.
Of course it could be true to a lesser degree, like maybe 20%, but "ALL" is ridiculous.

...and then you get a situation where you can't do anything without AI-doctrine, -order, and -oversight. No person is ever able to compete against it, no matter how flawed the AI-result, because it's made the ultimate authority. The future is glorious under AI leadership. Because AI is sacred , superior and the guardian of truth. /s

Let's hope the World will see the trend of this 'ideology' for what it is.... doubtful, because it's tech, not politics.

'Experts' have been saying this shit for years. Literally at least two decades.

Meanwhile, how many companies have had to backpedal (even recently) because they went too far with their dependency on AI, and everything went to shit and they had to rehire a bunch of humans?

So we can set on this as the AI equivalent of "cold fusion in 50 years" phisics constant?

I give it 18 months for the AI bubble to crash, and that's being generous.

Nobody wants this shit, let alone enough to pay for it. The novelty has worn off for anyone with half a brain. People can't even afford modern hardware. And if big tech can't turn theft into a profitable business, then how is this ever going to pan out?

If AI could do this then the work would have already been outsourced to cheaper countries.

Just because you spent billions on it doesn't mean its good

sure jan

"…and is the AI superintelligence in the room with us right now?" 😆

Famous words that will be swallowed.

Not feeling very confident, Microslop. The AI dudes usually promise their industry takeovers every six months, not 18.

Based in CEO claims AI should have replaced me 4-5 times over by now. It’s still shitty. I’m still here.

Yeah and computers only need 640K.

I've not tried to get an LLM to create a CAD model yet. I'm sure it's possible. I'm also sure whatever it came up with would need me to go over it and fix all the mistakes....

...hey, this must be how coders feel right now.

It seems to be trying to get rid of me already by making it take 5 sign in attempts to join a teams call late

Dumbass

Microsoft, how much do you want to wager my job will be replaced by AI? Just assume I also have billions of other people's money to spend like you do, and give me the sum you bet if this doesn't pan out.

In 18 months, I might be the King of Spain!

Look kids, two things that for sure are not going to be happening!

I am so curious about what happens when companies can't buy computers because RAM, Storage, and chip sets are so expensive, and therefore can't continue to buffer this bubble. Your tech is literally starving the people that you need to use it of their ability to do so but cutting off the supply to tech used to access it.

The prices of all computing are rising, wages continue to be stagnant, and every company making hardware is giving all the hardware to AI firms, assuming people will just use what they have. But there's no new supply when what they have becomes obsolete or breaks. This is a shitshow. This is like babies first capitalism for these fools. It's not even remotely sustainable.

And you want to put the people most likely to be forced to use the tech you're schilling to be out of work? Make it make sense.