Take-Two CEO Doesn't Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Development Costs; Says It's "Stupidest Thing" He's Heard
Take-Two CEO Doesn't Think AI Will Reduce Employment or Development Costs; Says It's "Stupidest Thing" He's Heard
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick doesn't think AI will reduce employment or lower development costs, and calls it "stupidest thing" he's ever heard.
I've said before and I'll say again, AI tools as we have them are a really good tool, for someone who knows what the tool needs to get done.
This isn't gonna replace work, it's going to change what work looks like, from having to know how to do the thing yourself to having to be able to clearly describe the thing you want done.
The peak of irony, this STEM development just made writing and literature classes a VITAL part of the average student's future working skills compared to how they were viewed before.
The hardest workers are probably also gonna wind up being damn fine reporters/poets/creative writers just as a happenstance of what skills they have to develop just to be good at their prompt engineering.
People are already losing their jobs... This is simply domonstrably false.
I think maybe you're focusing on a specific topic, rather than the broader one. For example, AI is still not great at technical troubleshooting... Though, honestly, it's getting better at an alarming rate.
Yeah. AI can definitely reduce development costs by handling a lot of the easy busy work for developers.
You underestimate the rate of technological advancement. “As we have them” is fleeting. Any well programmed AI will be better tomorrow than it was yesterday provided it has been utilized.
Unless you figured out how to escape binary computing, tomorrow, for everyone, it is really not gonna be the way you think it is.
The limitations I'm describing come from the very nature of how we practice computer science and engineering, you cannot derive a creative intelligence that thinks like a human from binary computing, just like how there are mass computations a human could never dream of performing in a timely manner the way even basic computers are capable of today.
Unless someone cracks the code to scalable quantum computing tomorrow, the closest current AI tech will ever come to being a replacement for human intelligence will be as a "Third Hemisphere" brain implant designed to unite Human Creativity with Silicon Mass Data Processing. Which, again, doesn't replace the human, it just moves the position of the tool they use to still be the one doing the work ultimately.
He smiles as he puts up a fake front to the public, while drafting up plans to lay off X amount of people to get Y amount of profit for the shareholders.
You can do that without AI.
But now they can blame AI for being shitty human beings
Considering that Big Tech’s thing lately is “were going to fire 12,000 people and shunt their work onto other employees for no reason but to raise our stock price”, I’m a bit skeptical.
Yeah, this is already happening. I'm watching people lose their jobs. I'm starting to wonder how many AI apologists are real people without motives.
I'm not suggesting we ban it, either... But we need legislation and common sense laws/rules/limits. If this isn't achieved soon, countless workers will be upended for the enrichment of the few.
If a business borrowed too heavily during the last 5 years/super lower interest rates cycle and are now really hurting because they couldn't keep borrowing, they are choosing to reduce overhead ie employees. This was gonna happen no matter what IMO (i could be insanely wrong) but along came "AI" to solve all the problems aka shift the blame.
Like i said i could be way off but this seems like a fad that is gonna get scapegoated hard.
Anyone with a functional mind knows that almost every invention, every breakthrough, every discovery, will always be utilized 1st to further greed and to kill people. Many would argue one is a tool of the other and not separate.
Reassurance by anyone who says otherwise is to be suspect IMO.
You forgot porn. (Closes private browsing tab)
Didn't they just fire a bunch of ppl?
He just read the headline about how experts say AI could easily replace CEOs in the near future.
woah, that's going too far, next thing you would be saying AI could replace investors!
I imagine he turned around, pressed the resume call button and fired 500 employees to make room for Ai
Theyre trying to get good press after the bad press theyve been taking. It wont work.
An AI will not take your job. But someone who uses AI well as a tool might.
That just shrinks the available jobs and eventually something will break in society.