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IBM wants to hire fewer people for some jobs because their jobs are software based artificial intelligence (AI) can be taken over. He expects that around a third of the jobs in HR administration can be replaced by AI and automation in five years, IBM boss Arvind Krischna told the financial service Bloomberg in an interview published Monday.
Because of this, hiring for such clerical work is being suspended or slowed down, Krishna said. IBM employs about 26,000 people who have no direct contact with customers. According to the group, some of the vacancies will not be filled. In contrast, software development and areas with customer contact will continue to be discontinued. IBM has a total of around 260,000 employees.
Currently, the text machine ChatGPTGoogle’s competitor software Bard as well as programs that can generate images based on text descriptions caused a stir. ChatGPT, for example, formulates texts by estimating the likely continuation of a sentence word by word.
A consequence of this programming is that the software, in addition to correct information, is also completely wrong information invented – but no difference is recognizable for the user. Because of this, there are concerns that their skills could be used, for example, to produce and spread disinformation. However, experts expect that this problem can be solved.
