Over half of UK businesses who replaced workers with AI regret their decision

Economic layoffs in “AI innovation” clothing.<p>What are these businesses magically replacing their workforce with AI? I genuinely want to know. If it’s disrupting this much why hasn’t there been a jump in GDP?<p>Laying off support workers and replacing them with a chatbot doesn’t count.

I&#x27;m using AI effectively in situations that used to require expensive hardware, not people. But for every wise business owner there are many more who have no idea and put little thought into their choices.

So about half don’t regret?

AI is changing so rapidly right now, it&#x27;s probably not a good idea to make one-way door decisions right now about it. I use AI everyday but it&#x27;s more to augment work than replace it.

this is a side effect that the society has got hyper efficient into delivering to the market. it is so fast that when things move, they swamp in and they might be crippled with bad decisions we figure out only too late.

Even in software development, which the models are better trained for than other domains and where results are easily verifiable by tests and compilers, I haven&#x27;t heard of much outright replacement. Maybe the businesses that have tried it are fumbling anyway and that&#x27;s why they jumped on an unproven idea.<p>I think at the end of the day there will be a tremendous skills amplification in many fields but the amount of work to be done will expand with the lowered cost and the amount of jobs will decrease less than the doomsayers are predicting.

Most are also using shit models, ancient by today&#x27;s standards, with rigid and limited rag responses.