The AI growth could also be altering the meme panorama, but it surely additionally has folks more and more anxious about their jobs — and seemingly with good motive. In line with a latest report from The New York Occasions, Amazon has plans to make robots an enormous a part of its workforce sooner or later.
“We simply realized 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 seen by The New York Occasions. Wow, that is the form of scoop you used to get at The Washington Submit, 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, with a purpose to calm the anxious staff, Amazon is avoiding phrases like ‘automation’ and as a substitute can be utilizing phrases like ‘superior expertise,'” Colbert continued. “And to suggest the AI workforce will collaborate with people, they are going to substitute the phrase ‘robotic’ with ‘cobot’. And as a substitute of calling all that ‘bulls**t’, I’ll name that ‘superior livestock butt by-product.'”
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