Thread regarding ExxonMobil Corp. layoffs

AI is a long ways out...

If you've tried automating or using AI for this company you will know just how painful it is to try and push innovation. Multiple tiers of leadership, so many boundaries to break down, etc. Etc.

I find it funny that the company is choosing to use AI and technology advances as the message for headcount reduction. In my experience those outsourcing moves just adds to the body count while doing nothing to automate. There is no future in technology for this company because it continues to distance itself from the people who can offer those options. I have been pushing a solution that would reduce two entire departments, instead or pursing they just keep adding bodies to the BSC's.

XOM will be left in the dust by its competitors as they choose to advance technology while XOM looks to outsource and reduce its expertise.

Watch and see.


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Post ID: @OP+1k7z2hw8w

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Look, the only thing you need in Exxon now is PowerPoint. That's as advanced as it goes in house.

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Post ID: @e9+1k7z2hw8w

It is either Ai or BTC.

You choose.

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Post ID: @e8+1k7z2hw8w

pray tell, which two entire departments?

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Post ID: @d8+1k7z2hw8w

AI is not for us, it's for share holders.

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Post ID: @bf+1k7z2hw8w

@ba automation exist outside of AI and ML. I actually have worked with both AI and ML quite a bit. I am well aware of its limitations and am under no impression of it living autonomously. Im aware of how ardous it is to implement and how good systems have to be to use it in its mildest form. I dont disagree with any of the points made, in fact that was the point of those post (maybe not well stated). The company wont get there because it wont invest in minor opportunities today - let alone full AI integration. The company using it as an excuse is a joke. Lots of anxiety being shown in this thread is equally proving my point. No one is going to pursue anything significant here because everyone is focused on having to worry about having a job left to come to.

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Post ID: @bd+1k7z2hw8w

@OP Apparently someone who knows very little about LLMs and ML took it upon themselves to write a post about it.

Artificial intelligence doesn’t exist as anything other than a marketing/advertising slogan. We’re at least a decade away from achieving anything resembling autonomous artificial intelligence systems.

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Post ID: @ba+1k7z2hw8w

Is it AI or AI (All Indians) where corporations are bamboozled into believing that high process workflows can be successfully completed with minimum employee participation and QC…this AI is sure resulting in increased levels of anxiety….

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Post ID: @b0+1k7z2hw8w

Was this written by AI?

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Post ID: @ay+1k7z2hw8w

@ab find the part where I said via AI alone.

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Post ID: @ac+1k7z2hw8w

I started to laugh when I see “…reduce two entire departments.” Apparently, you don’t know much about AI.

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