Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Please take this discussion offline. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: www.lbdsoftware.com Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden > On May 2, 2023, at 9:14 PM, Bill

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Capitalism is America. Taxpayer funded subsidies for oil companies who are making record profits off of a non capitalist organization called OPEC+. Farm subsidies for farms mostly owned by massive conglomerates. Pharmaceutical companies whose research is funded by taxpayers. Capitalism is a

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
Al Gore would have been infinitely better than Bush II. The Supreme Court conservative majority picked their boy. 2 wars and 9/11 later, the money spent fighting useless wars is still being paid. The economic prosperity of the post WWII decades would be hard to beat. The middle class in America

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
A lot of the programs that got the U.S. of of the great depression was authored by Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. V.P 1941-44. He recorded his Century of the Common Man speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAKrIdSPkHI . Corporate delegate blocked his nomination for VP in 1944, I

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
-- From: "Bill Johnson" <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 02-May-23 20:50:12 Subject: Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI >LOL, the US has boatloads of socialism. The military, infrastructure, schools,

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
on behalf of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 8:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI It is the government's job if it is based on socialism. The USofA was based on the rights of the individual and giving them

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Doug
20:50:12 Subject: Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI LOL, the US has boatloads of socialism. The military, infrastructure, schools, insurance of all kinds, social security, Medicare/Medicaid, and much more. Capitalism is what the right screams to kowtow to the

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
3/5 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 8:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI It is the government's job if it is based

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
LOL, the US has boatloads of socialism. The military, infrastructure, schools, insurance of all kinds, social security, Medicare/Medicaid, and much more. Capitalism is what the right screams to kowtow to the lesser educated. There are zero capitalist countries on the planet. Much of your

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Steve Thompson
It is the government's job if it is based on socialism. The USofA was based on the rights of the individual and giving them opportunity, actually not getting in the way of opportunity. This is why it was said, he is governed best who is governed least. WE the People have rights given by God,

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Bill Johnson
I agree completely. It’s government’s job to protect the downtrodden & redistribute income. Even people like Warren Buffett have pushed for higher taxes on the wealthy. So what actually happened? The tax cuts of 2017 went mostly to the top 1%. Sheldon Adelson saved 700 million. Not a bad return

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Farley, Peter
All hail Skynet! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 6:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI I for one would like to see the "dec

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Steve Horein
I for one would like to see the "decision makers" replaced by AI and leave the technical folks in place. Think of the high paying salaries that could be eliminated! On Tue, May 2, 2023 at 11:02 AM Lance D. Jackson < ljack...@pandrueassociates.com> wrote: > >

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I wonder what IBM missed from the Watson project experience. We used to say: 'Once bitten, twice shy'. However, there are such people. I have a friend that got married for the third time... ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Perhaps I’m just entering that golden period where I look at news like this and consider that technology like AI being unleashed has secondary, and negative, consequences of people losing jobs, income, etc. It makes the divide worse and causes angst, bitterness and redistribution of wealth as

Re: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
eputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lance D. Jackson Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2023 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM pauses some hiring amid plans t

IBM pauses some hiring amid plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI

2023-05-02 Thread Lance D. Jackson
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3963147-ibm-pauses-some-hiring-amid-plans-to-replace-7800-jobs-with-ai?mailingid=31343481