Thread regarding DXC Technology layoffs

Your a idiot if you think "buildings and infrastructure no longer needed" the Cloud is a marketing term. All hosts need to be run on something physical , infrastructure , networking, storage, backup is all the same.

Cloud is a fancy term for outsourcing. You want Cloud go back to the days when companies ran on one OS and one piece of hardware. Called a mainframe. instead of 100's of Admins your had two or three.

We had VM's in the 1980's , Yes there are advancements in hardware and software but running 100's of copies of the same OS on 100's of VM's is just stupid

The cloud is simply a network of servers, each serving a different function. Huge buildings and infrastructure no longer needed, thus DXC liquidating and dramatic downsizing

Humans no longer need apply even cheap labor markets eg China replacing humans with automation and robotics, you ARE obsolete get used to it, rationalization and "philosophical" arguments irrelevant in the real world

Cloud= Remote access server eg NSA UTAH DATA MINING humans obsolete no need to apply,IoT

The infrastructure is OBSOLETE, everything switching to digital cloud ... There is NO SUCH thing as Cloud! All things need to be HOSTED somewhere, my god you people are suppose to be computer people and you don't have a fig en clue.

Cloud is just another name for Out sourced

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1% of US population produces more food than US can consume. All those back-breaking agricultural jobs in godforsaken little hamlets are gone - and thank goodness for that.

There is no reason to expect less from the application of AI.

Secondarily; it is a well established principle of philosophy that an agent cannot give rise to that which surpasses it. Man cannot create something superior to himself; that is not in the cards, no matter how many AI advocates enthuse about it.

AI advocates, all of them men, suffer from a severe case of womb envy; that much is clear.

On one of the DXC Investor Day slides I saw a reference to "task robots", I believe it was a labor cost related slide. More code speak for something executives would be all in favor of for obvious reasons. Corporations are made of people, how come the most vile/evil are the only ones who make it to the top?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2016/11/08/is-elon-musk-right-and-will-ai-replace-most-human-jobs/#1bfbc48160f4

But industrial robots are the great equalizer. They reduce the importance of wage differences, for example between the US and a cheap-labor country like China: Unlike labor, robots cost the same everywhere. But this isn’t the Industrial Revolution. These days, robots and algorithms are everywhere, replacing not just manufacturing jobs but all kinds jobs in air-conditioned offices that paid big salaries and fat bonuses

HOW MANY JOBS DO ROBOTS DESTROY?

http://wolfstreet.com/2017/03/29/how-many-jobs-do-robots-destroy-answers-emerge/

Don't even know how employees can continue to work for a company like this. Continuous downsizing and backstabbing. Very toxic environment. Indian interface day after day after day. They must be desperate but oh well. Let the business begin to slide.

"The AI algorithms will need white collar people to be maintained. Have machines and computers been able to reduce employment over the last 200 years?"

First off.

Have you noticed a slight improvement in the capabilities of robots from 100 years ago compared to now?

Secondly. Ever heard of Artificial Intelligence?

Seems your robot/technology knowledge is circa 1920.

Welcome to 1980, which is all I did. It's way more advanced than even I said.

I truly hope you aren't employed in the tech field, cause if so, you are laughably out of date with your knowledge.

Indeed you sure wouldn't be one of the few who might be needed to run the robots, not that people are needed anyway. But you sure as h e l l wouldn't be one chosen considering your gross ignorance of the subject.

The AI algorithms will need white collar people to be maintained. Have machines and computers been able to reduce employment over the last 200 years?

That's correct.

Which is why it's time for WW3 to rid the world of much of those obsolete, expensive, and entitled workers.

Those robots are also good at killing people. Just ask Darpa.