Tara reports on AI failures forcing human rehires and blasts the DNC.

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00:02 Your job will probably be replaced by AI, so you should definitely panic. Eventually. But maybe not right now? 00:16 because serious question of whether AI is ready for prime time. We've been asking that in the show and we've kind of had both sides here on the show. Well, Ford just rehired more than 300 veteran human engineers, like real ones, that eat and breathe and yeah. Ford just rehired more than 300 veteran human engineers it had let go after it says AI failed to deliver. 00:43 the same level of expertise and dependability that they need it. 00:49 gets even more interesting when you look at this. A Career Mind survey, this just came out, of 600 human resource professionals whose companies have made layoffs in the previous 12 months due to AI, in other words, they tried to replace human beings with AI, revealed that, get this, nine out of 10 companies would rethink their AI-related terminations of human workers. Three out of four human resources professionals who took the survey confirmed 01:18 that their organization sacked employees because of technological advances that replace roles and responsibilities. But just 8.4 % of those surveyed said the AI delivered the promised results once they installed it. Over the past 12 months, we've seen a noticeable uptick in companies coming to us after pausing or scaling back AI tool rollouts. That's James Callaway, Chief Operating Officer at Stealth Agents. 01:46 This is interesting. One of their uh e-commerce client companies had budgeted for an AI customer service implementation, but found that licensing, integration, and engineering costs came in at two to three times their original cost estimate. They gave up and went back to using humans because we're cheaper for now. They hired two of our human virtual assistants instead and cut their per ticket resolution cost by nearly 40%. 02:16 So for now, they're saying human employees remain the most cost-effective in client-facing communications. 02:24 Same thing going on at Nvidia. In April, the vice president told Axios for my team the cost to compute is far beyond the costs of the employees. So they have it. uh It basically works, but it's so much more expensive to maintain. This is what I've been saying for a while. You're going to end up having to hire humans to maintain it one way or another. 02:50 So while they think it'll be there eventually, it's not now, in many industries. 02:59 Text your rights Duke Power sent out an email saying we should raise our thermostats to 78 degrees. Yeah, I'd be laughing and then I'd hit delete. Duke Power sent out an email saying we should raise our thermostats to 78 degrees. I will shut down the power grid before I turn my thermostat above 70. Yeah, especially with the heat right now. Holy cow. Another text your rights here is the housing act a good thing? Not really. 03:28 There's some good things in it, but mostly no, it's not a good... Look, folks, when you get majorities of Democrats voting for something, is it a good thing ever? Do you need to know anything else about it? They only vote for that which destroys. 03:42 ah Texturates hate Tira, I love your show. Google is still saying the polar ice caps are melting. They're not. We'll be fine. uh Texturates hate Tira, was a video on X I saw yesterday from China mocking the French for not having air condition. They showed a pig pen with a mini split cooling at the covered shed running with the doorway wide open. The pigs seem quite content with this. Unlike the recently sauteed 04:12 French. Text to rights, listening to your show from White Bear Lake, Minnesota. Oh, I'd love to know, do you live there or are you from here? He's taking a vacation. It'd be cool if people in White Bear Lake, Minnesota were hearing about the show and listening to it. Text to rights, Senator Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham both helped put Thune in. How about mentioning that and holding them accountable? Good point. 04:37 Another ...

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