Anyone firing employees because they thought that AI would do their jobs in 2025 should be fired. It really doesn’t take much research to see AI isn’t at the place where it’s replacing people – yet. And business managers – particularly in small and mid-sized companies – who think it is better think again.
At best, generative AI platforms are providing a more enhanced version of search, so that instead of sifting through dozens of websites, lists and articles to figure out how to choose a great hotel in Costa Rica, fix a broken microwave oven or translate a phrase from Mandarin to English, we simply ask our chatbot a question and it provides the best answer it finds. These platforms are getting better and more accurate and are indeed useful tools for many of us.
But these chatbots are nowhere near replacing our employees.
It’s somewhat akin to claiming that now that we have hammers, carpenters aren’t needed.
Companies that care about quality cannot replace workers with LLM.
Problem is some “executives” think they can save cost by “AI”, and they are trying.
They’re going/are replacing workers - the problem is they’re going to make someone else do more work and check/fix the output.
In the end, there won’t be any cost savings (or frankly, even any “productivity”) - just another tool companies pay for because every other company uses it.
That’s the problem. I am already seeing AI slop in my area of work. And they usually need heavy clean up. In the end, its not saving any time.