Yabba Dabba Doo! Will Robots Steal Our Rock-Pounding Jobs?

The Great Gazoo's Latest Gadget?

Yabba Dabba Doo! Your pal Fred Flinstone here reporting live from beautiful Bedrock! I just heard some news that's got me scratchin' my rock hard head. Seems like this fella Andy Jassy the big cheese over at this Amazon place says these newfangled 'Artificial Intelligences' are gonna be doin' some of our work! Can you believe it? He figures they might need fewer of us rock pounders in the future. Fewer! That's like sayin' they need less Barney Rubble! Unthinkable!

R.I.P. Bronto Cranes?

This Jassy fella's talkin' about how these gadgets are gonna take over some of the jobs we're doin'. "Like with every technical transformation there will be fewer people doing some of the jobs that the technology actually starts to automate," he said. What in the Stone Age does that even mean? Sounds like somethin' The Great Gazoo would cook up! I mean I love drivin' my foot powered car but I ain't sure I'm ready for a robot Bronto Crane operator!

Newfangled Jobs Bedrock Style!

But hold on to your Dino hats folks! Jassy also says there'll be other jobs. Maybe they'll need folks to… uh… polish the robots? Or maybe teach 'em how to bowl? He claims they will hire more employees in AI robotics and elsewhere. Who knows! Maybe I can finally get that job as a 'Head of Granite Decoration' I've always dreamed of!

Shrinkin' the Workforce Flintstone Style!

Now this ain't the first time we've heard about businesses shrinkin'. Back at the quarry Mr. Slate's always tryin' to cut corners. "It'll be 'hard to know exactly where this nets out over time' but that the corporate workforce will shrink as Amazon wrings more efficiencies out of the technology" Jassy said. That reminds me when Mr. Slate tried to replace me with a chicken powered rock polisher! Didn't last long I tell ya hwhat!

Yabba Dabba Doo or Yabba Dabba Don't?

Other bigwigs are singin' the same tune. Some fella named Marc Benioff (sounds like a character from a bad dream) says his AI is doin' up to half the work! Imagine! Seems like these companies are tryin' to do more with less usin' these machines to get ahead. Jassy says AI will free employees from "rote work" and "make all our jobs more interesting". More interesting? Maybe I'll finally learn how to play the sax a ma phone!

The Stone Age Shakeup!

Heck Amazon's even been layin' off folks lately. More than 27,000 jobs gone since 2022. That's a whole lotta dino burgers not being bought! The stock market's been a bit rocky too but I ain't no stockbroker just a humble rock pounding family man. Anyway Jassy says robots that will eventually do delivery and transportation. So Wilma can get her groceries delivered by robot without even going to the store. Either way seems like the Stone Age is changin' faster than Pebbles can say 'daddy'!