Alphabet Layoff - AI Already Is Disappearing Jobs

"The cuts [at Alphabet] come at a delicate moment for the U.S. company, which has long been the leader in key areas of AI research." - Yahoo Finance, January 20, 2023 

12,000 jobs have gone poof. Not entirely because of The AI Factor. After all the global slowdown has hit digital advertising hard which is a core profit center at Alphabet. However, in AI there is now intensifying competition from Microsoft. That latter has invested heavily in Open AI's ChatGPT. 

In addition, it is so out there that AI chatbots can kill off Google Search. Eventually. Right now ChatGPT is not ready for search primetime. For example, it does not produce results for what is occurring in real time such as what is happening in futures at 3 AM ET. But since AI, which is programmed to simulate the brain's neural networks, is capable of learning and applying that learning, Google should be shaking in its boots. ChatGPT4 is assessed to be mighty smart. It will be released in several months. 

The Alphabet layoff could be a harbinger of how AI could actually wipe out entire industries. On the top of the list is communications, extending from the macro space of public relations agencies to the micro area of content-creation. By 2025, 90% of digital messaging could be performed by AI.

Lesson here: I instruct my coaching clients to change before they have to. Here is my article published in O'Dwyer on career change. In 2022, I shuttered my content-creation boutique and shifted to full-time coaching. Immediately revenue increased. I also received more respect. I had been told twice, "Writers are a dime a dozen." When I had started out in writing the profession was considered "sacred." That was then. Now there is AI. 

Intuitive career coaching about your present and your next. Shut down the noise from that committee in your head and open to possibility.  In addition, content-creation about HR issues.

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  1. Mark StoufferJanuary 24, 2023 at 10:14 AM

    Are the demographics or job positions known about the layoffs? Is there any information about which types of jobs were laid off? That might be much more interesting.

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