The Great Crash of Amazon AWS and Reduction in Staff in Favor of AI

[jedishrfu]

Recent article on the Amazon AWS crash that almost brought the internet to a halt losing billions in productivity and recent Amazon reduction in staff in favor of AI.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/aws-outage-amazon-fired-workers-ai

 

[.Scott]

Just to be clear, the two items (RIF and outage) have no obvious connection. Except, perhaps, that if AI had handled the DNS maintenance, the mistake might have been even worse.

I was looking for an old quotation that went something like "computers can make more mistakes in a second than a person could in a year". But when I Googled that, AI immediately came to the energetic defense of computers.

 

[BillTre]

I was looking for an old quotation that went something like "computers can make more mistakes in a second than a person could in a year".

I like: "To err is human, but it takes a computer to really screw things up."