Effects of AI on job market

[TeTe]

I'm a "creative type" and I've begun using AI every day.

Cool. It's virtually worthless for the user experience writing I do. It doesn't understand the meaning of words, it's not empathetic (or know our style guide) to human readers and doesn't understand how to use our proprietary software systems.

 

[TeTe]

Also, you remember when chat bots were supposed to kill customer service jobs like ten years ago? Lol, never happened because people fucking hate chat bots and pick up the phone anyway.

 

[TeTe]

Wrong, AI is not like other automation.. it's unprecedented. Also, AI currently DOES program itself.. that's what's so unique about it. The people who invented it don't even understand how it works fully.

I'm a "creative type" and I've begun using AI every day.

AI has already taken 10's of thousands of mid-level programming jobs by making the high-level programmers more productive. Soon it will take those jobs as well.... the whole notion of a human writing code will seem ridiculous in the very near future. Human tailored software languages, like C++, will quickly be replaced by AI generated languages which are 100 times faster and more capable as they will no longer be reliant on a monkey being able to understand how to interface with it.

Also, just checked, there's 129 job postings (granted many are remote) for AI engineer on Google for San Diego alone. Seems like it's not as self sufficient as you make it out to be.

 

[TheTickG]

I am about 30% more efficient at my job.

 

[Michaelangelo]

AI strip clubs loom

Hoes about to be out of the job

 

[GSP_37]

A bigger gap between the filthy rich and the poor who will be forced to turn to sex jobs.

 

[Nameless King]

Wrong, AI is not like other automation.. it's unprecedented. Also, AI currently DOES program itself.. that's what's so unique about it. The people who invented it don't even understand how it works fully.

I'm a "creative type" and I've begun using AI every day.

AI has already taken 10's of thousands of mid-level programming jobs by making the high-level programmers more productive. Soon it will take those jobs as well.... the whole notion of a human writing code will seem ridiculous in the very near future. Human tailored software languages, like C++, will quickly be replaced by AI generated languages which are 100 times faster and more capable as they will no longer be reliant on a monkey being able to understand how to interface with it.

So were this is going to end as far as we are concerned because to me at the moment it looks like the richest who can automate their business the quickest and to highest efficiency levels will be set to make trillions. And when eventually whole of the world catch up we might then get to the point where 'we don't have to work'.

So what's going to happen then? What purpose companies are going to have if they no longer make money because everything is automated and people are starving cuz they got no jobs?

Everyone seem to be excited about AI and future but who is out there concerned about little guy at the bottom of the chain?

I suppose countries and those in charge have a plan because if unemployment hits the fan real hard then WW3 is the last thing you have to worry about.

Who knows, we might see then rise of communism in countries where this was unthinkable previously.

 

[Berserker13]

Wrong, AI is not like other automation.. it's unprecedented. Also, AI currently DOES program itself.. that's what's so unique about it. The people who invented it don't even understand how it works fully.

I'm a "creative type" and I've begun using AI every day.

AI has already taken 10's of thousands of mid-level programming jobs by making the high-level programmers more productive. Soon it will take those jobs as well.... the whole notion of a human writing code will seem ridiculous in the very near future. Human tailored software languages, like C++, will quickly be replaced by AI generated languages which are 100 times faster and more capable as they will no longer be reliant on a monkey being able to understand how to interface with it.

Wow, you know more about it than the people who invented it...

typical npc delusional bs

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Prepare for this shit now is all I am saying.

 

[PBAC]

Yeah, but there will never be an AI hamburger.

there is AI generated CocaCola and many places in Europe/Japan have entirely automated restaurants already. Early adaptation robot waiters are already being used in Amsterdam. If you have ever been to Japan many restaurants are self service and wait for the food to appear at the table. The people really benefitting from this are creative types as it is completely streamlining their process.

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Even AI thinks he's too good to be a janitor

 

[William Huggins]

Even AI thinks he's too good to be a janitor

Until it gets tired and gets some immigrants to do the work........

 

[Plutoburn]

I've been asking everyone I know how they think about AI affecting their job market, both personally, their company, and their industry in general.

Basically, the more closely they work with computers, the more affected they feel it will be and the more thoughts they have. In fact, a guy that works in digital marketing says that his company is already trimming the workforce because people who are good at using AI is already way more productive than 3-4 employees without.

 

[moreorless87]

AI is good for people who are bad at their job I suppose. Otherwise it's a hinderence for creative types. I guess it's good for data entry jobs and light coding.

Also, if anyones job is in jeopardy, it's middle management, but yet they won't admit it.

Also, AI will create a whole new slew of jobs. AI can't program and prompt itself. Not to mention the output is sus, so more QA will be needed to verify the output. Right now chat gpt just flat out makes shit up and is full of inaccuracy. But what do expect from a glorified auto complete.

Also, worker shortages are becoming an issue right now with boomers retiring and birth rates being so low so it's not as urgent as it seems.

Lastly, blue collar trades will still always be in demand... So there's some of your consumers.

I'm guessing a big issue will be though that AI can create software much more cheaply which will replace lower level white collar jobs, obviously we've had the ability to replace such jobs for decades but a lot of them survive because there just specialised enough that a program to replace them would to overly expensive to create.

A shift to white collar job loses I think could be very significant as well in terms of politics, previously its tended to be blue collar jobs which get replaced and I think you could argue a lot of the support base for the current status quo is build on just enough people with white collar jobs being just comfortable enough that they won't push too hard for change.

Mess around with that and I wouldn't be surprised if the demand for a UBI starts to become more significant.

 

[Cole train]

I've been asking everyone I know how they think about AI affecting their job market, both personally, their company, and their industry in general.

Basically, the more closely they work with computers, the more affected they feel it will be and the more thoughts they have. In fact, a guy that works in digital marketing says that his company is already trimming the workforce because people who are good at using AI is already way more productive than 3-4 employees without.

Yea heard as well marketing is currently being affected

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

If that happens they will truly have to go the communistic route where they provide everything for everyone, unless they'd want people to just riot and destroy things.

The wealthy want a much smaller population. There are tons of interviews about AI and it’s funding where the mask slips on what they really want to do. I think the utopian future they believe it will provide for them is a very bleak outlook for everyone that’s not part of their plan.. which is a large portion of the population.


Scary stuff in all honesty.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Wall-E

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[mozfonky]

The wealthy want a much smaller population. There are tons of interviews about AI and it’s funding where the mask slips on what they really want to do. I think the utopian future they believe it will provide for them is a very bleak outlook for everyone that’s not part of their plan.. which is a large portion of the population.


Scary stuff in all honesty.

that's what they say, how do you think they'll get rid of us?

Truth is, there really are too many people on the planet, we do need to show self control and quit reproducing, 9billion is way too much.

 

[Cartiac]

Wrong, AI is not like other automation.. it's unprecedented. Also, AI currently DOES program itself.. that's what's so unique about it. The people who invented it don't even understand how it works fully.

That is not true at all. "AI" is a program that flips electricity on and off based on the instructions given by humans just like every other. No one writing code for non trivial programs fully understands how all of it works, that has always been inherent to the very nature of software development and what we call bugs.

Before starting to write any program you have to have some understanding of what you are solving for, then write code to tell the computer to do it based on that current understanding, then run it and find out what you actually told it to do, and then repeat based on that new level of understanding. It is a continuous process of creating more and more advanced programs by building upon the understanding of those previously created to solve more and more complex questions.

The last thing you should ever do as a coder is deliver a program that you cannot explain how it works. As a programmer, I am going to ask and if your answer to my questions are "I don't know" then you are going to go back and work on your code until you can give me an answer before that code is accepted.

 

[Vil7]

Bezos is such a greedy pig. Logged into Prime video yesterday to watch a movie and there was a pop up saying 'Prime video will now be showing ads during movies. You can opt out for $2.99 per month.' Fook that guy. I'm about to boycott Amazon.

I think it'll affect me because all these pencil neck nerds are going to try to head into blue collar jobs and flood the job market making it hard to find a job and make wages go down.

End of times boys.

It's shotgun time.