Turnitin laid off staff earlier this year, after CEO forecast AI would allow it to cut headcount
Reading Time: < 1 minutesPeople worry that advances in AI will lead to job losses, but rarely does a company’s CEO openly admit that AI will help to reduce their headcount. Turnitin, a plagiarism detection company whose CEO Chris Caren last year warned that, in 18 months, his company would be able to reduce 20% of its headcount thanks to AI, is today confirming a small set of layoffs.
Speaking at an event in 2023, he noted that Turnitin had a few hundred engineers, but he believed that in 18 months, ‘we will need 20% of those number of people,’ referring to the engineering staff. ‘And we’ll be able to start hiring a lot of them out of high school versus four-year colleges — probably the same for sales and marketing functions,’ he added. His comments were made during a discussion about how AI would impact the job market by increasing efficiencies.
Turnitin’s software leverages machine learning and AI to detect if a student’s writing is plagiarized. It sells to schools, colleges, universities and other educational institutions and works with partners like Coursera, Blackboard and others.
Already, there are some signs that AI is replacing workers. Klarna recently announced that its AI Assistant can do the job of 700 workers, shocking the industry.
Ref: techcrunch
MediaDownloader.net -> Free Online Video Downloader, Download Any Video From YouTube, VK, Vimeo, Twitter, Twitch, Tumblr, Tiktok, Telegram, TED, Streamable, Soundcloud, Snapchat, Share, Rumble, Reddit, PuhuTV, Pinterest, Periscope, Ok.ru, MxTakatak, Mixcloud, Mashable, LinkedIn, Likee, Kwai, Izlesene, Instagram, Imgur, IMDB, Ifunny, Gaana, Flickr, Febspot, Facebook, ESPN, Douyin, Dailymotion, Buzzfeed, BluTV, Blogger, Bitchute, Bilibili, Bandcamp, Akıllı, 9GAG