The impact of AI on jobs

jon-nyc

@Axtremus said in The impact of AI on jobs:

@jon-nyc said in The impact of AI on jobs:

I am starting to worry about my son who will graduate from college in 6 years.

I tell youngsters to consider plumbing school as backup plan. I am thinking it will be much harder for AI to replace plumbers.

Are you telling your own kids that?

My son could survive off his inheritances I suppose. Especially given what AGI will do to the stock market.

Horace

I bet Ax does not choose that question to break his decades long seal against talking about personal stuff.

Mik

I think my daughter will be fine. AI can develop project plans, but it can't be a butt kicker, which every successful project manager is.

89th

Sorry to break it to you Mik:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ever-wish-there-was-a-machine-for-kicking-people-in-the-ass-well/

Doctor Phibes

If all the butts belong to robots, what better kicker than a machine?

jon-nyc

Best comment: Akshually its tensor maths of which vectors are just a special case

Horace

I wrote a description of something I was doing yesterday, to some coworkers. I pasted a paragraph of it into chatgpt, to see what sense it could make of it.

It understood it perfectly, gave perfectly reasonable advice. This is not advanced stuff, but the level of this conversation, based on my experience, will lose most people allegedly "skilled in the art", but now anybody can get accurate and clear headed explanations of technical stuff, in presumably most realms of human knowledge.

Mik

That's how I use it and it excels 90% of the time. It distills the subject down to what you really need to know.

Axtremus

See, plumbing school FTW!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-cant-install-an-hvac-system-why-gen-z-is-flocking-to-jobs-in-the-trades-171735856.html

AndyD

Back in 1980 when I read Sociology, we studied some Keynes, Schumacher. Reduced working hours, and 3 day working weeks appeared to be in my future.
Oh yeah, and flying cars for all were predicted.

It'll happen, eventually.

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The impact of AI on jobs