Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% — roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce — as it steps up its focus on artificial intelligence. San …

Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence::Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% on Wednesday, which will affect roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce.

  • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I don’t know, but Microsoft’s free copilot stuff is so not useful that it doesn’t make me feel the need to pay them for the business product

    • captain_samuel_brady@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I paid the $30 today for their 365 Pilot and asked it to summarize a meeting for me that was recorded and it couldn’t even find the meeting.

      But hey, I’m sure Cisco will do a better job. Everybody I know keeps asking about Cisco’s AI. Maybe it will finally give a good answer as to why I should pay a subscription to own an access point.

      • drislands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        I’m in agreement that this stuff is painfully useless.

        But “it couldn’t even find the meeting” sounds more like a configuration problem and less like a comment on the product’s quality.

        • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          From time to time Teams doesn’t show me a teams meeting that I have on my outlook calendar, so I’d believe it.

        • captain_samuel_brady@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I’m not even sure how it’s configured. I added the license, added the app to Teams, and asked it to summarize a meeting that I knew had been recorded. When it couldn’t find the meeting, I asked it for a list of meetings that I had on that day. It responded with a partial list, not including the correct meeting. The correct meeting was visible in both the Outlook and Teams calendars.

      • phillaholic@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        That’s my bad. I was trying to say it was so not useful. Poor wording on my part.