CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually.
One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired.
Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be.
You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner.
The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage.
And then thereβs the permission problem nobody wants to talk about.
To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game.
You didnβt hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own.
Enjoy.
Three: AI has no common sense. It has data. If the data shows that a warehouse is over-filled with products... then AI registers that as verification that the warehouse is filled. A HUMAN employee can walk into the warehouse and see that it's empty, and that a computer glitch kept double counting the handling of products and creating an imaginary inventory bubble. AI will never see that.
Years ago, I remember companies having to re-state their income taxes because they had all bought into some computerized inventory management system that had serious glitches. AI doesn't realize when something is ridiculous or impossible, or when something isn't being handled correctly. It only knows data.
If you have an AI fast food restaurant drive up... try an experiment by ordering something odd and see what the AI system does. Order a crunchy taco with a flour tortilla and the lettuce on the outside of the taco. :>) Try ordering a burger, but instead of a single or double... ask the computer for 1 1/2 burgers and only the bottom bun. A HUMAN could give you a quick answer to any of those, or help you in some reasonable way. AI can't. It doesn't understand anything that isn't specifically in the programming.
Or maybe try ordering a plain omelet, no potatoes, tomatoes instead, a cup of coffee, and wheat toast, Jack Nicholson style.
Mind you, I don't understand why anyone would want to give up on potatoes, especially home fries cooked in bacon grease.
LLMs have no intelligence of any kind (it is just software) and the marketing term "Artificial Intelligence" is deliberately intended to misinform people.
The reason this matters is that the fake "intelligence" has been used to insanely over-promise what LLMs are actually capable of doing.
Every time people start noticing, the AI scammers always promise that improvements in the near future will fix all of the problems. That is also a lie. Current LLMs are already very close to as good as it gets, and adding additional billions of parameters will have no noticeable improvement (diminishing returns).
When all else fails, the AI scammers resort to fear tactics, saying that we are in a life-or-death competition with China for "AI dominance", and anyone that disagrees is a paid shill of the CCP, or a traitor, etc. The fear tactics are a clear "tell" that they are lying, by the way.