The AI growth could also be altering the meme panorama, nevertheless it additionally has individuals more and more anxious about their jobs — and seemingly with good purpose. In line with a latest report from The New York Occasions, Amazon has plans to make robots a giant a part of its workforce sooner or later.
“We simply discovered that Amazon plans to interchange greater than half one million jobs with robots,” says Stephen Colbert in The Late Present clip above. “The information of Amazon’s plan comes from a cache of inner technique paperwork considered by The New York Occasions. Wow, that is the sort of scoop you used to get at The Washington Publish, if solely Bezos hadn’t modified their slogan from ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ to ‘20% Off Subsequent-Day Supply of Six-Pack Males’s Ankle Socks.’ [Amazon owner Jeff Bezos has owned The Washington Post since 2013.]
“In line with the paperwork, so as to calm the anxious employees, Amazon is avoiding phrases like ‘automation’ and as an alternative will likely be utilizing phrases like ‘superior expertise,'” Colbert continued. “And to suggest the AI workforce will collaborate with people, they may change the phrase ‘robotic’ with ‘cobot’. And as an alternative of calling all that ‘bulls**t’, I’ll name that ‘superior livestock butt by-product.'”
