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Microsoft 'to replace journalists with robots'
Microsoft is to replace dozens of contract journalists on its MSN website and use automated systems to select news stories, US and UK media report. The curating of stories from news organisations and selection of headlines and pictures for the MSN site is currently done by journalists. Artificial intelligence will perform these news production tasks, sources told the Seattle Times.
Microsoft said it was part of an evaluation of its business. The US tech giant said in a statement: "Like all companies, we evaluate our business on a regular basis. This can result in increased investment in some places and, from time to time, redeployment in others. These decisions are not the result of the current pandemic."
[...] Around 50 contract news producers will lose their jobs at the end of June, the Seattle Times reports, but a team of full-time journalists will remain.
Microsoft sacks journalists to replace them with robots
One staff member who worked on the team said: "I spend all my time reading about how automation and AI is going to take all our jobs, and here I am – AI has taken my job."
Also at Business Insider, The Verge, GeekWire, and MSPoweruser.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @10:44PM (1 child)
Learn to code.
You will hear rumors that coders command huge salaries of at least six figures. This is a lie. The most you will earn during your coding career is zero. Free open source software is free and open source. Nobody will pay you to write code that everybody can take from you for free. You will die poor.
You will hear rumors that coders are in high demand. This is a lie. There are zero coding jobs and there is no demand for coders. Computer science education and code boot camps are scams designed to waste your time and waste your money on false promises. You will die poor.
You will hear rumors of people who claim to be employed as coders earning six figure salaries. This is a lie. These people are shills who give the illusion of legitimacy to the tech industry. These people are trying to trick you into believing that learning to code will be a lucrative investment. In reality your return on investment will be negative. You will die poor.
The tech industry is based entirely upon fraud. If you are foolish enough to learn to code, if you are cursed to be genuinely passionate about coding, you will be unemployable for life. You will die poor.
Learn to code. Die poor.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 01 2020, @04:35PM
Learn to code in some useful relevant language and be
exploitableemployable.The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.