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We haven’t even seen the Latin American wave in tech yet, these guys are going to replace the Indians. Better schools and closer to American time zones. It’s starting to happen right now.
Tech Industry job layoffs looking scary
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Amazing how quickly companies outsourced cybersecurity jobs to foreign countries. I've ended up on several zoom calls for LATAM or APAC Regions where nobody speaks English.
I can't wait for this shyt to blow up in Corporations faces.
I can't wait for this shyt to blow up in Corporations faces.
In what way?
Amazing how quickly companies outsourced cybersecurity jobs to foreign countries. I've ended up on several zoom calls for LATAM or APAC Regions where nobody speaks English.
I can't wait for this shyt to blow up in Corporations faces.
how? there is barely any consequence for a cybersecurity breachno regulatory measures whatsoever.
Pipe dreams
Smaller companies that don't have deep pockets get shutdown all the time due to a breach. Part of my job is doing Third Party Vendor Risk and the amount of companies going under is growing. Most people have never heard of these middle men. But companies are constantly using third party vendors because they refuse to do anything in house.
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Sometimes these breaches are just about paying an ransom. You have espionage at the center of most hacks. The Chinese have probably bankrupt numerous companies after stealing their intellectual property via cyber attack. I've read stories of companies getting competitors shutdown by hiring someone to hack them. Lotta shady shyt goes on in cyberspace.
no regulatory measures whatsoever.
Pipe dreams
Nortel collapse linked to Chinese hackers
Diunx
Probably drunk
Yep, I'm part of it, a lot of the higher skilled IT dudes are still from India but confidence is growing more and more everyday on replacing them with local dudes when they quit.
I think Indians still get paid way less. So I doubt any other country will ever dethrone them when it comes to outsourcing.
And there is almost always someone from India working in these other countries. They're literally everywhere on the planet.
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Unlike Indians, they don't try to dominate either making them more reasonable to Americans. Most companies never cared about Tech. They just need it. Now we are seeing the signs of that come to life.
The best companies aren't having these issues with AI. That's the problem. When you have a tremendous staff who can work with it. AI is tremendously efficient.Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
Why is a company whose products can't tell the truth valued at hundreds of billions of dollars?
"But apparently it's different for OpenAI's hot new model. Using SimpleQA, the company's in-house factuality benchmarking tool, OpenAI admitted in its release announcement that its new large language model (LLM) GPT-4.5 hallucinates — which is AI parlance for confidently spewing fabrications and presenting them as fact — 37 percent of the time."
OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time
If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.futurism.com
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Maybe because orwellian language allows them to replace saying it is" wrong', or that it is "lying" with "hallucinations".
"Hallucinations" my ass
Thought this was funny (and informative potentially):
All those people online basically mean 90% of the time:
Probably what most people mean when they say “maStEr A.i!!”:
Now if this was actually about building A.I’s like what those cats making $10M at Meta are doing then it means going to college for an MS or PhD Math or Comp Sci.
No, you’re not expected to go through 10 years of Math.
Most times it means basically get good at prompting
Yep! Fancy way of saying, nikka, learn how to get AI to do the right type of shyt
They are already doing it.
