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The impact of AI on jobs

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  • 89th8 Offline
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    #94

    Yeah and we're still in the infancy years of it. Admittedly I was stubborn and refused to embrace AI for a year or two, but not only have I started to integrate it into my work (mostly summarizing content, identifying the best big data queries to use) but now I have a post-it note on my desk to get into Claude. It seems it's easy to create a digital robot to perform so many tasks now. I hope to retire in 10-12 years and hope I can dodge the AI hammer until then.

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    • HoraceH Offline
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      #95

      We’re about to enter into a golden age of computer games. Everybody with a good idea will be able to build a game around it, no artists or programmers required. I wonder wha big game studios will bring to the table other than interference from the marketing department.

      Education is extremely important.

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      • HoraceH Offline
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        #96

        Jack Dorsey cuts 40% of workforce, explicitly due to AI replacing humans:

        Stock for the company up 20% on the news.

        And Grok's summary of Dorsey's letter:

        We're slashing the company from 10k to under 6k people because AI plus tiny teams now let us do the same work with way fewer bodies, and the CEO would rather gut half the staff in one brutal move than bleed out slowly over years.

        Education is extremely important.

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        • jon-nycJ Offline
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          #97

          I could do no better than that summary.

          Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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          • HoraceH Offline
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            Horace
            wrote on last edited by
            #98

            Grok was asked for a one sentence summary, which is a neat trick.

            Education is extremely important.

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            • jon-nycJ Offline
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              #99

              Big if true.

              Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                Big if true.

                AxtremusA Away
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                Axtremus
                wrote last edited by
                #100

                Solution: Rename the "Computer Science" major to "Art of Computing" and make it a Bachelor of Arts degree, basically treating it like liberal arts.

                Anyone here with a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Computer Science? Raise your hands!

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                • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                  Big if true.

                  KlausK Offline
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                  #101

                  @jon-nyc said:

                  Big if true.

                  Fun! I guess I'm glad my position is non-cancellable, unless the whole country ceases to exist.

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                  • 89th8 Offline
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                    I honestly do feel bad for those caught graduating at the wrong time. I work in IT but pivoted a few years ago to cybersecurity and so far we are finding ways to use AI to make our job better but I’d imagine eventually we’ll be augmented (aka replaced) by agentic robots who can find/stop security threats 24/7 and don’t need sleep.

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                      #103

                      I think my son is in a really bad age group for this. He’s needing to choose a college major knowing that AI is about to change everything but only able to speculate as to how. But by the time he graduates college those changes will be in full swing.

                      Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        wrote last edited by Mik
                        #104

                        Is he leaning one way or another? If I was his age I’d lean toward something entrepreneurial. Trades maybe. Bright kid, he’ll do well but white collar is dicey.

                        The changes we are seeing in our lifetime are dizzying.

                        "You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible." — Thomas Sowell

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