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So half our It guys just got laid off

Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:38 pm
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
6626 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:38 pm
Bringing in machine learning software from ibm to take over it. Accounting got the memo too, new software is suppose to do the balancing and sox.


Time to change careers OT
Posted by UncleRuckus
Member since Feb 2013
10258 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:39 pm to
That sucks. Did you get laid off, what do you do?
Posted by flyAU
Member since Dec 2010
24901 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:39 pm to
Watson' getting paid.
Posted by Big_Slim
Mogadishu
Member since Apr 2016
3979 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:40 pm to
frick this depresses me. Glad I went engineering computers can suck a dick
Posted by monkeybutt
Member since Oct 2015
4584 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:40 pm to
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Bringing in machine learning software from ibm to take over it


Posted by rocket31
Member since Jan 2008
41888 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:41 pm to
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Glad I went engineering


lol youre next
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
6626 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:41 pm to
I am an "internal consultant" for process improvement. I didn't work on the it project but it got the approval a month or so ago and the employees were notified this week
Posted by flyAU
Member since Dec 2010
24901 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:42 pm to
What exactly is machine learning software and what functions does it take over from humans in IT?
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
46693 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:43 pm to
What are they using Watson for in terms of replacing those IT bubbas?
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
60138 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:43 pm to
Damn, who will run the Adobe updates?
Posted by Devil_doge
DFW
Member since Sep 2016
2499 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:44 pm to
The machines have become self aware.
Posted by Sao
East Texas Piney Woods
Member since Jun 2009
68469 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:44 pm to


There is still time to go back to Trade School, you know...
Posted by LEASTBAY
Member since Aug 2007
16677 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:45 pm to
African American mathematician working for NASA?
Posted by TigerBait2008
Boulder,CO
Member since Jun 2008
40491 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:45 pm to
There are other taco bells hiring.
Posted by BigAppleTiger
New York City
Member since Dec 2008
11127 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:46 pm to
MAGA!!!
Posted by dukke v
PLUTO
Member since Jul 2006
216681 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:47 pm to
Technology is ruining the world.... we are our own worst enemy.......
Posted by malvin
Member since Apr 2013
4628 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:48 pm to
They should have chose a more stable profession.



Signed,
Oil baws
Posted by TennesseeFan25
Honolulu
Member since May 2016
8391 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:49 pm to
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So half our It guys just got laid off by fareplay


#wannacry?
Posted by fareplay
Member since Nov 2012
6626 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:54 pm to
There is only a few jobs that a machine cant do. I think in the next 20 years corporate america will change tremendously
Posted by Centinel
Idaho
Member since Sep 2016
46693 posts
Posted on 5/19/17 at 4:54 pm to
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There is only a few jobs that a machine cant do.


What is it doing for you guys?
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