"The most innovative companies shouldn't view AI as a cost-reduction play." Learn why #AI can be a catalyst for greater innovation and customer value from Cisco Chair & CEO @ChuckRobbins
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Can ask AI multiple questions and it gets it wrong and when you call it out it says sorry, the model has not learnt that yet.
Sounds exactly like most employees I worked with at Cisco. The only thing that would make AI more real is if it refused to learn once you pointed out where they were wrong.
Can ask AI multiple questions and it gets it wrong and when you call it out it says sorry, the model has not learnt that yet. Seriously they think AI can take over from humans in the way the fu-ktards CR and G2 think? AI is a tool and still needs staff and humans.
@e9 you sound like you’re drinking the Cisco Kool-Aid
@e9 Or, they could fill in the gaps with full keystroke and mouse logging. That will take some time, for sure, but it can be done given enough time and resources.
MyAgent might eventually be used in the way you describe, but not yet. Once it's mandatory, sure, but it's still optional. There's also plenty of tools people use regularly that aren't connected to MyAgent, and there are plenty of undocumented workflows that rely on those tools.
To really use AI to eliminate a mass amount of jobs:
- People would need to be asked to document every single element of their workflows, including strategies, reasoning, decision-making considerations, etc. MyAgent can't derive those workflows today based on its current capabilities. Building these would be a painful process because there would always be undocumented situations that arise and confuse the AI, triggering mistakes that materially impact the company, and subsequently require more revisions to the training info, which have to be made by a human that still understands how to handle those undocumented situations. It's paradoxical.
- All Cisco's tools would need a MyAgent connector or equivalent...which is thousands of connectors...and good luck when Cisco changes tools every 2 years.
But, what will happen before Cisco can do the above is that gov't will seize control of major AI models, will eliminate/consolidate other models, and Cisco and other companies will be left with neutered AI models, rendering the above vision moot. Doesn't matter which political party is in power; they all want control and will eventually get it, just a question of when.
What do you think MyAgent is for? And why they are shoving it down our throats so hard? And why there is no global governance on what teams can build with it (allowing duplication of efforts and redundant workflow builds)?
It’s a data-gathering mechanism so that they can understand what workflows can be automated, and what workflows still require a human.
Once they understand what can be automated, and they do so successfully, they will absolutely reduce workforce. If a 10 person team took 40 hours to accomplish a task without AI, and then post-AI it can be done with 6 people and requires only 20 hours to accomplish…they will treat that as a cost savings opportunity.
You are training your replacements. 100% in 18-36 months this will happen. It will start in obvious places like software engineering, then expand to finance, HR, EA’s, CX…
You think I’m wrong, go research for yourself. And if Cisco can do it and save $x millions, every single tech company will do the same. White collar tech is fu---d.
I shudder to think of the psychopathy of an AI trained on Cisco's code bases.
..annndddd where did all the specalists go?
Don't forget all the promises about having entire applications written by AI. That is going to 100% create a reduction in workforce needs.