It was a joke video from the onion about outsourcing their own jobs to India. This is kinda the same but with AI.
I know it's only for translation now but how long until "copilot" joins meetings on my behalf?
Only tangentially related, but hustle culture meets remote work: https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed
Well, they have my voice (Teams), they have my image and biometrics (Windows Hello for business), they know everything i do a the computer (Recall) so they can replace me with an AI.
Just think at the next headlines: Microsoft increases the price of Office 365 bundling a new feature: virtual employees.
Then we hold virtual meetings where virtual managers create PowerPoint slides with AI and virtual employees "listen" and in the end AI summarizes everything into something no one will ever read? :D
No, they train the next LLM on it.
While the civilisations are long-gone, they build up the Kardashev ladder for the sole purpose of producing more of nothing.
Finally, all cosmic resources being expanded, they shut down. Since nobody remained to observe, it is unknown whether in a brief flash of self-awareness, realising the meaninglessness futility of their existence, the machines commited suicide.
Also FYI someone actually decided to lived by that principle and even wrote a NYT bestseller about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4-Hour_Workweek
Remember that we need more people to learn how to code (the corporate nonsense that many developers here and elsewhere amplified in 2018)!