Spotify CEO Daniel Ek thinks his staff are just salaried algorithms

 (REUTERS)
(REUTERS)

I, robot

If you’re worried about losing your job to AI, act fast to show you deliver more value than ChatGPT.

Spy hopes this advice reaches the staff of music app Spotify – what’s left of them. Hours before more than 1,000 of them were laid off a few weeks ago, billionaire CEO Daniel Ek liked a tweet which said: “Nowadays, I often think of people as LLMs. Their ideas [are just] a function of their experiential training dataset.”

We’re all doomed. Still, at least when you’re jobless there’s more time to play your favourite tunes.

 (Evening Standard)
(Evening Standard)

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