Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness

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Salesforces has entered a phase of public reckoning after senior executives publicly admitted that the company overestimated AI’s readiness

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
    88·
    15 hours ago

    “We assumed the technology was further along than it actually was,” one executive said privately

    I wonder how many executives made these types of decisions knowing the technology could not perform as intended, but wanted to boost their quarterly or yearly bonuses, versus how many were just gullible morons.

    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works
      39·
      12 hours ago

      It’s also showing that they do not regret firing the employees; they would do it again if the technology was that far along.