Businesses Too Lazy to Educate Their Staff on AI, According to a Randstad Survey

Well, well, what a surprise! A new study from Randstad—because apparently we needed a study to tell us this—has discovered that even though employees are ready and willing to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), their overlords, aka enterprises, are dragging their feet in training them. Only in this topsy-turvy world would workers be excited about welcoming their potential job-stealing, soulless robot overlords, and yet, here we are.

Implications of Two-Faced Enterprises

So let’s break this down for all you slow folks out there. Companies are endlessly droning on about how AI is the future and how efficient and cost-effective it is. Yet, when it’s time to put their money where their mouth is and train their frigging staff, they go slacker than a hipster in a coffee shop. The implications of this hypocrisy are pretty clear: these bozos could end up with expensive, fancy AI systems that no one knows how to use. Trust me, it’s as pointless as a chocolate teapot.

The Hot Take: Corporates Can’t Match Their Talk With Action

To sum it all up—in case your attention drifted off to something more interesting like watching paint dry or something—corporates are preaching all about their love for AI while leaving their staff in the Stone Age. They’re ready to bring in the AI era, but can’t stand to face the music and do the needful—educate their employees. Nice to see the big dogs of the corporate world living up to their reputation of talkers than doers. Because who would really want progress when you can have slack-cess instead? Pure genius.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/despite-growing-demand-only-13-of-employees-offered-ai-training-last-year/