Laid-Off Workers Should Use AI To Manage Their Emotions, Says Xbox Exec (theverge.com)
- Reference: 0178281592
- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/07/04/1718221/laid-off-workers-should-use-ai-to-manage-their-emotions-says-xbox-exec
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/698468/xbox-exec-reccommends-ai-to-laid-off-staff
> The [1]sweeping layoffs announced by Microsoft this week have been especially hard on its gaming studios, but one Xbox executive has a solution to "help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss": [2]seek advice from AI chatbots .
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> In a now-deleted LinkedIn post captured by Aftermath, Xbox Game Studios' Matt Turnbull said that he would be "remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances." The circumstances here being a slew of game cancellations, services being shuttered, studio closures, and job cuts across key Xbox divisions as Microsoft lays off as many as 9,100 employees across the company.
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> Turnbull acknowledged that people have some "strong feelings" about AI tools like ChatGPT and Copilot, but suggested that anybody who's feeling "overwhelmed" could use them to get advice about creating resumes, career planning, and applying for new roles.
[1] https://slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1330223/microsoft-to-lay-off-as-many-as-9000-employees-in-latest-round
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/698468/xbox-exec-reccommends-ai-to-laid-off-staff
Taking his own advice? (Score:4, Funny)
His LinkedIn post looks like it was written by ChatGPT, so everything checks out. Maybe "Matt Turnbull" doesn't exist and the AI bots really are taking over?
Best advice is to use AI? (Score:2)
Considering that AI chatbots seem to have issues with the truth and holding difficult conversations (to put it politely), this advice may be worth less than what you paid for it.
Go see a counsellor or talk to a friend. You'll get another job and it will be a better one.
Hope He Remembers (Score:5, Insightful)
I hope he remembers his advice when he gets let go.
Advice (Score:2)
> get advice about creating resumes, career planning, and applying for new roles
Or advice on lock picking, disabling burglar alarms, hotwiring cars, phishing, and defrauding before visiting top executives to thank them for such great advice and generous severance pay for all those years of hard work and compensate for finding a good job in a shrinking job market.
Fantastic (Score:3)
Saying that, much less in public in a way that suggests you either think that it will be helpful or that people will view you as being helpful, seems like strong evidence of an AICD-11 personality disorder.
Re: Fantastic (Score:3)
The title of 'executive' is strong evidence of an AICD-11 personality disorder.
Re: (Score:2)
If it's dissociality and/or disinhibition without an LLM fetish it's just an ICD-11 personality disorder.
microsoft is always super helpful (Score:1)
maybe they could bring back clippy. "i see your home is being foreclosed on. would you like me to find some cardboard boxes"?
[redacted] (Score:1)
I'm self-censoring every thought I have on this one so I don't end up on a(nother) list
Let them eat cake! (Score:1)
Classic ruling class rhetoric. Reminder that ML needs physics more than physics need ML and that "LLMs" are a red herring.
Sounds like a solid plan (Score:2, Interesting)
[1]People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" [futurism.com]
[1] https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis
Re: (Score:2)
> [1]People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis" [futurism.com]
No shit. What AI developer PR machine came up with "Laid-Off Workers Should Use AI To Manage Their Emotions, Says Xbox Exec". Oh, Microsofts.
For f*ck sake, go talk to friends and family in the real world. And if you don't have any in the real world then go find some, not an AI.
This is like going to the fast food / snack food industry for advice on the food pyramid. Oh wait, we did that too.
[1] https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis