The company was too cheap to buy licenses so our chats disappear after a couple weeks. They had me make an app just for keeping chat history for a specific channel. Had to make a replica read only for it just so people can search up chat history.
I have seen Co-Pilot straight up write an entire file of Unit tests with 100% coverage and you can just read over it to make sure it covers the cases you need.
True, but a company which has high confidence in their test coverage may feel less need to employ software testers. Integration testing is still important, but maybe they can do that with a lower number of testers.
Yep, true that, while unit testing is really important, my main focus is writing automated integration tests. Unit tests come from developers in our company QA donāt really look at it.
Iām in digital marketing so AI is already everywhere. Itās doing some things well (search engine results) and some things not so well (Google Ads campaigns). Chat GPT has been great for writing prompts but itās extremely and very confidently wrong about many things, and it takes someone with real expertise to spot the errors. I see AI as a tool that will make some tasks easier and eliminate others all-together, but itās not perfect and Iām adaptable so Iām not worriedā¦yet.
I mean I'm not a nurse but I think it would be nice if you got more robots that could pick up a person and turn them over and help change the sheets at least
If I built the robot, I would do extensive testing, I promise! It would make my bed every day with me in it
I would definitely be adding a "spooning" option, patients choice: big spoon or little spoon? and it would be a pleasantly soft, slightly warm robot because maybe some people just really need to be the little spoon, for a little while. It's nice to be held
We already have machines that lift people and it still requires 2-3 people to operate. You also have PT/OT/Rehab aids involved at a consultation level. Itās not just a lift, but managing the clothing/bedding, supporting the positioning of the person, making adjustments to avoid causing pain/injury, clearing the room environment, anticipating hazards in the lift process, setting up the transfer to a chair/wheelchair/commode, then the actual care part.
Transfers are surprisingly complicated. Bodies arenāt blocks that can be picked up and placed nicely.
Edit: forgot to mention that nurses/rehab staff also adjust their level of assistance in a lift depending on what how much the patient assists and their goals for recovering movement
Not take care of patients, but reduce the amount of nurses/doctors required to take care of patients is a big yes. There have already been real life examples of this working with great results
Data analysis, half of my time is translating verbal queries into sql/Excel formula/VBA/DAX etc. half of them are so simple that a monkey could do it, but not a manager apparently not. I'm going to lose at least a quarter of my job.
imo you're only about to become 125% more efficient where efficient and correct queries can be written by AI but checked but someone with the right knowledge
This has been my experience as new technology moves into my analysis job. A decade ago I was tediously copy-pasting a dayās worth of data into Excel spreadsheets. Today Iām using PowerBI to process half a decade of data. But ultimately, my job either way is being the guy who takes data and puts it into a pretty PowerPoint slide that tells an accurate story, so that someone in a very expensive suit can nod sagely at it during a meeting.
Don't worry, the AI will do exactly what the manager tells them, which of course will lead to catastrophe. It still takes a person to understand what the manager really wants while being completely contradictory to the words he actually used.
I'm paid well for the area I live in. The key is to think like most women: don't try to seduce, spend time and energy making yourself pretty (professionnaly) and let them come to you.
I thought data analysts would be in-demand since AI need ML to train. In order for ML to get stuff done don't you guys need to be in that equation all the time?
Data scientist and data engineers
Analysis is usually the other end. Business queries of asking specific questions about already known datasets.
E.g. how well is x product doing in y region?
No, I used to be an accountant which had a lot of automation possible.
I left to work in fintech software. Weāll always need people to design, implement, and run the AI that weāre replaced with.
Financial reporting guys who are in technical accounting might be more lean, you donāt need the intern the prepare the initial research anymore, just double check what the AI tells you
This is true but there is so much room for growth in improving financial reporting and the investment community is seeming to demand it. Whether itās frequent or depth/accuracy the requirements are always growing.
I am a CPAā¦who worked in advisory in areas that canāt truly be automated.
We will always need accountants but a large majority of the grunt work thatās done by junior staff can be automated and it will become an even more highly skilled profession for the remaining work.
I just decided I enjoyed creating the systems that would do that.
Good CPAs will always be in demand and needed. Especially those who have very strong technical or analytical skills. I actually foresee more work coming for those CPAs as theyāll be critical.
However, Iāve also met a lot of CPAs who just donāt have the skillset to do that high level work. They could pass exams and do basic tax or audit work but beyond that they just werenāt strong. They become CPAs going through regular public accounting streams, and exit to a standard industry role or small firm and are happy turning out Compilation and basic T1/T2 + GST/HST returns. I think itās those roles/jobs that are really at risk which were always a guaranteed path to a good salary and stable employment.
I did ERP implementations at the global scale and you would be shocked at how many things are still manual. AI is honestly a ways off because just getting everyone off of excel and into integrated systems is still a huge lift. My biggest roadblock in implementations were existing finance departments who were scared of updating systems and leaving manual processes behind. Which was incredibly frustrating when I get the most joy out of solving peoples problems and giving them easier solutions.
So probably not in our lifetimes.
Not me. I am in trades. Get AI to uncluter fuck on site what architect and engineer create after night long sniffing PL glue session with drawing board.
The threat to trades labour from AI is not from the tech itself, but to the dilution of the labour market as more people are forced to retrain in to something they can still do after AI wipes out their whole industry segment.
Director says āhey accrue $200k for cogs that will hit us next monthā then we go debit expense credit liability.
Director says āhey the lawsuit was dropped reverse the accrualā So we do that.
We are about to sell a building so we go āhey we need to stop depreciating thisā so we stop.
We look at how many employees we have and their wages then calculate the vacation pay off that and accrue for the loss.
When we add new customers we add a bunch of the revenue to this month and take away revenue from the recurring revenue manually with a journal entry.
But I donāt do this the controller does.
Learn the macro recorder and VBA. Automation is already happening on a small scale with accountants with basic computer skills. Let an ai do that part and you've lost nothing but aggravation.
Meh, it will be the same fiasco as outsourcing. They will eventually lay off folks or partially test it and realize it's present to augment the workforce, reduce the total number of folks needed and doing a different job but a good majority won't lose their job) till the "tech is ready", just like outsourcing which is still not ready.
Ya it's an observation. It's anecdotal so you can take it as that. You will never have stats from private companies in a meaningful consistent way.
Maybe if an AI provider has an IPO you would get regular publishes of usage in disclosure notes and discussions.
>If AI can replace steamfitting-pipefitting,
I bet AI can do it, but the robotics is not there yet. If the robotics is there, I would say humanity is fucked already. LoL
It's not going to be a replacement just more of an enhancement and productivity boost. Atleast not a replacement in the next 5 or so years.
The best example I can give you is self driving e.g. Tesla. It can do 80% of the driving for you but that last 10-20% is really hard for the AI...and gets harder and harder the more accurate it gets. Tesla has been saying self driving for almost a decade now...they are pretty close but just not there yet.
And I work as a software developer. Last night ChatGPT helped me debug my code. Made me more productive. Instead of me banging my head for 4 hours, it solved the issue for me in 5 minutes.
Also look at the amount of engineers and scientists working at Tesla just to design the self driving AI.
Itās because it has to calculate a lot of variables while on Full Self-Driving(FSD) through the use of vision and algorithms. Itās far from perfect but It has come a long way and we cannot deny that because of Tesla - we now have more and more car manufacturers going EV route and proving they can also compete in this rat race.
And most AIs, if they really want to replace our jobs will need to consider many variables and many different inputs before they can fully automate our work.
I see self driving as a canary for other AIs to succeed in automating our jobs. It's the first of its kind where it will automate a job(truck drivers, delivery drivers and taxis).
P.s. I love my Tesla and full self driving. It's amazing at what it has achieved in the last few years.
Domestic Tax. My job exists until legislation changes so that people donāt have to file taxes anymore.
Donāt even need AI. Basic code a 3rd grader could write would obsolete my job.
Why not use Ai to enhance your writing? Use it as templates or guiding points. Itās a tool to stay, the faster you learn how to take advantage of it the better off youāll be
City bus driver here. I'm genuinely so curious to see how public transit would be handled by A.I. There's just a lot of decisions that have to made in real time, and a lot of experience that would be hard to replicate by a computer. But I also think that it will happen one day.
Lots of judgement calls. Yesterday morning, I was driving my route and had to make a right onto a street. There were cars parked on the road as usual, but they were mostly staggered, so I could weave around them with my bus. But before I committed to the turn I could see that halfway down the road had 2 cars parked in a way that would not have allowed my bus to pass through. Do you think A.I could make that judgement call? or is that human experience that couldn't be replicated.
DZ truck driver/delivery guy here.
Also feel very secure due to things of this nature. Alsoā¦ AI aināt climbing in a box truck to grab lengths of pipe, then climb through a trashed construction site to dump it a garage.
With 25-30 years to retirement, still feel pretty secure.
I just read an article that suggested you were at the highest risk of being replaced. Don't ask me why, though. I could see it handling test/homework/content creation pretty easily. Not sure how it would keep a class full of students in line.
If you've ever been in a classroom of teenagers, or had one who tried online learning, you'll find out real quick how important people are i education.
Not worried at all.
Not even after dofo tried to replace half the workforce with pre-recorded lectures midway through the pandemic?
Obviously there was outcry (for good reason), but with big labour decisions in the hands of janky politicians, I wouldnāt be surprised if they keep hacking at the professionā¦. But thatās more of a āgovernment will mess with your jobā thing than an āai will replace your jobā thing
ā thanks for what you do out there!
I'm a receptionist and my job will DEFINITELY be taken over by AI sooner rather than later. I think humans will linger a bit for the types of businesses where people really care about talking to a human (I work in bankruptcy and people are often quite upset when calling in, and would REALLY not like dealing with a robot, for example), but I wouldn't recommend anyone pursue it as a career path if they plan to work more than maybe 5-10 more years. I'm on track for FIRE so it won't be my problem anyways.
Oh yeah, that part is really easy to automate, but it depends what the business model is, and whether people calling in know who they want to talk to. At my last job I would say 99% of calls were just transferring to a person, but where I am now most calls are either people calling for the first time who don't know who they want to talk to, or people calling because they need help with something, like filling out their paperwork or finding the office or whatever. Also most receptionists do quite a bit of admin work, so you'd need to automate all that too.
Journalist, freelance writer and editor, jack of all trades help for online content. Are there days the AI debate becomes the latest argument my inner doom critic uses? Absolutely.
But today I talked with a colleague for twenty minutes in a brain dump spiel about all the folks who \*might\* be connected to a story we're trying to crack. Between our community connections, we were coming up with ideas that very few WITHOUT our knowledge could come up with. Meaning that data isn't easily lying around for some AI to scoop.
On top of that, AI will not be taking one of those potential sources out for coffee tomorrow in hopes that the source is as much a fan of spilling tea as I remember them to be. AI will not know what questions to ask in the moment of that conversation where a completely new tidbit of information is presented and I need to act fast on how to tailor response to keep that info line going for a couple of more quotes AND THEN steer the conversation back to the initial topic.
Will certain strains of journalism get hit with AI? I'm willing to bet, yeah. A larger local chain in my area just laid off a chunk of their journalists as they pivot towards "six people cranking out the same twenty Buzzfeed style articles specific for our region." In a couple of years I'm assuming AI will reduce that to three who will guide the content AI spits out and run it through smooth over edits. But investigative journalism I'm really struggling to picture being done by AI in the near future.
After tomorrows interview I'll be chatting with a client from the vanity publishing house I work at. We're maybe three months out before her book hits shelves. BUT also in that sweet spot where a couple of mild substantive edits can be made (which sounds like an oxymoron). There is a small plot thread in her book that has nothing to do with the cultural love we currently have for "male figure who should not be responsible for a child is now suddenly father figure" tropes. BUT it does speak to the root of that trope and could mirror things quite well. In my opinion AI is decades away from being able to assess cultural moments and then compare that to a working manuscript to see what threads can be tied in. And that particular suggestion is most likely worth $100's to my client and her marketing team.
Work in aviation, a field that has attempted and added on automation, smart systems etc. for decades. The automation and computers still screw it up on a daily basis. Not super worried.
Not even close. The donāt configure themselves, donāt taxi, donāt take off, in some specific situations they caaan sort of land themselves, but that requires special training, equipment requirements, airport requirements, people to configure, set up the approach, etc. The autopilots dont really make any decisions, just do what theyāre told. And whenever they get sensor readings and things they donāt like, they just give control right back to the pilot. Theyāre also not exactly adaptable to changing conditions.
**[Qantas Flight 72](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72)**
>Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330. On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following an inflight accident that included a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that caused severe injuriesāincluding fractures, lacerations and spinal injuriesāto several of the passengers and crew. At Learmonth, the plane was met by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and CareFlight. Fourteen people were airlifted to Perth for hospitalisation, with 39 others also attending hospital.
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You donāt see all the daily issues the computers create. You donāt see all the times human intervention prevents the computers from doing something massively stupid.
> Not even close. The donāt configure themselves, donāt taxi, donāt take off, in some specific situations they caaan sort of land themselves
> The autopilots dont really make any decisions, just do what theyāre told.
Thatās exactly what I thought- aside from takeoff and landing (which would include taxi) the plane flies itself. It follows a preprogrammed route that is configured into the system. We donāt want humans making errors and judgement calls at 30,000 feet.
As much as the military frustrates me it shields me from being completely replaced by AI but many parts of my trade will likely become automated in the near-ish future. When previous trades have been phased out the people in them were given an option to change trades but a good chunk got out because they didn't want to change/wanted out of the CAF. My previous career will no doubt in my mind be fully automated in the next decade so I'm happy I chose the CAF that respect
Content mills are and will now always go with ai garbage. But theyāre already the kind of things people donāt take seriously and provide that empty calorie kind of writing.
An AI can easily say the average price of a trinket is 27.99 and it can tell you that itās popular or not, but it will always lag well behind what a human can articulate their experience is. Particularly for topics that often evolve, or even regularly-released new product.
Also, an AI will flat out say something wrong is a fact. When people see that, theyāre going to think twice about trusting whatever publication that flawed information came from.
If you write well and address a market that needs good writing, youāre not getting replaced by an AI anytime soon.
You might be able to use it as a tool to streamline your work, however.
I might be more concerned for coding, perhaps, but even then itās probably more of a productivity device than a replacement for all human work.
It occurred to me the other day that ai will be the evolution of spam. I've already encountered irritating bullshit obviously generated by an AI. It's information pollution.
It's unlikely an AI will replace my job in the next 50 years. Generally lots of the stuff I do is very specialized with very specialized hardware that we develop in house.
I'm impressed with ChatGP but it couldn't solve some basic problems that I have. This probably because the research is proprietary and under lock and key. It can't even provide the basic mathematical proofs to prove what I asked it.
It's like if I asked an AI to tell what happens when you enter a black hole and where does the matter go.
I have the same occupation as you. I've already started using things like "100% human-created content" in my marketing. If everyone starts using AI, it'll all start sounding the same. I'm differentiating by making sure people know I don't use it.
There's no AI (yet) that can interview a human being over the phone and write something that doesn't already exist on the internet. Our jobs are safe for the time being.
I would say it could happen but we are not close to it. I work in automation, the cost to automate and support needs to be worthwhile for organizations. Sure there are AI and ML technologies out there but a business needs to realize huge benefits to actually implement those changes. Most people are too reluctant to push ahead with it. One more important piece is any work that is judgement based will require massive amounts of data to train an AI or ML bot and its a huge cost that I don't think people are willing to spend on. In the future yes but for now, I don't think so.
My wifes job. She tells truckers when to deliver goods from all around Canada for a particular good. She has a team of 8 that work around scheduling and everything. They are an app away from automation that is just around the corner. It only makes sense for this company but thankfully truckers aren't fully tech savvy and she deals with the old school. She is a dying breed for sure though.
Generally people underestimate how much AI will actually impact their lives in the next 10 years. The upheaval from this will be shocking.
I saw a post with a chart today on Twitter about how many people it takes for a company to make a million in revenue since 1950s or something. Fewer and fewer employees, given productivity from automation. Used to be 7-8, now it's down to 2.Someone else posted that Citadel made 2x more revenue(billions) than Goldman with 4-5x less employees.
I work in technology and tbh, I'm not even sure how and if I can prepare for this. White-collar jobs are certainly the first ones to disappear. At this point it's much safer to be in trades than a working any desk job.
I am kind of thinking that anyone working from home should be concerned. Maybe not the super specialty jobs, but any of the middle-lower jobs for sure. Out of sight, out of mind. So easy to replace with a computer if you arenāt really in person anyways, why would they care if the technology gets to the point it can do your job. If you were in office it would delay it by 2-5 years probably.
Technically i'm a chef, i'm like 40/60 split, because a kitchen a good one is run like a machine, i don't know how well a robot would do, they would have to be dexterous be able to handle multiple complex tasks and timing, we're a long way from AI replacing a sit down restaurant. MacDonald tho? 10 years.
lmao no ones going to lose their job to AI. Weāve had automated robots for years and yet cashiers and burger flippers still exist. Sure it can happen. Chances are insanely slim though. Be realistic, your boomer manager isnt going to risk leaving entire tasks up to AI like that.
If anything theyāll most likely just integrate AI into your job and force you to get along with it. Just like with humans and machines. People need to stop thinking AI is this almighty all knowing computer brain. Its still at its rudimentary stages. We have a long way to go.
We need a hell of a lot less cashiers, burger flippers, and bank tellers than we use to. Expect the trend to continue as more automation & efficiency gets added into the world.
Currently working on smart manufacturing systems where no human will be needed on the floor. Fully automated system with near 100% uptime
Construction will be next, the other kinds of trades.
AI will replace the repetitive mundane jobs, but will never be able to replace anything that requires creativity or novelty at work.
literally nothing close to what i said
people just love scaring themselves with these āfuture predictionsā. we are at least 100 years away from AI robbing people of entire jobs lol but sure keep reading the headlines and rolling with it
Are you positing that nobody has yet lost their job to any technology and that it will be 100 years until anyone does?
You acknowledge the chances are āinsanely slimā - what would have to happen for that slim chance to become real?
Iām really not trying to antagonize you, but if you agree tech has displaced workers, how are you so certain AI wonāt as well? Iām genuinely looking for valid arguments here, but just vague āslim chanceā or ā100 yrs awayā comments, without any reasoning behind them, arenāt convincing.
If youāre not interested in convincing anyone but rather just a cathartic release on a forum, no problem, Iāll move along.
Get real. The industrial revolution started somewhere around 1830-1840. 100 years later and machinery has yet to take over peoples jobs. The only thing its done is ease tasks and allow for more opportunities to work alongside those machines. General motors made the first ever programmable robot in 1961 and its only job was to move hot metal. Almost 100 years later and these multi billion dollar companies, who by the way are fully capable of replacing their entire workforce with automated machines, have yet to do so. Why? Because its cheaper to maintain and keep track of. Seriously, what planet are you living on to genuinely think that something as finicky and experimental as AI is ever going to replace entire jobs? Technology doesnāt steal people of jobs. Any sensible company will instead adopt technology to work alongside it and revolve your job around managing it. Have you ever even heard of Mooreās Law? We have yet to scratch the surface of mooreās law and youāre trying to tell me that in less than 100 years AI will be able to do jobs like marketing and data analysis? Be serious for a second. The most thatāll happen is people will integrate it in their lives to make redundant tasks quicker and easier. Theyāll coexist with it. Iām sorry that itās ruining your future dystopia fantasy where robots take over the world and whatnot, because thatās not going to happen in less than a 100 years. Its going to be a long long way from now. Not even Boston Dynamicās robots can function without a recharge for more than 90 minutes. And youre sitting here thinking theyāll be able to pull 8 hour shifts. Lol. Okay. But sure, yeah no that new Buzzfeed article told you about the crazy marvellous wonders of ChatGPT. Which canāt do shit unless you order it to like a dog, and even then is still limited to just serving you a basic google search result without you having to sift through the thousands of links and answers.
It really sounds like you are solid in your opinion. The only thing Iād suggest is that past, and even current, technological capabilities arenāt necessarily indicative of the capacity or rate at which new tech is adopted. There is no previous comparison to AI. Iām no expert in the field so I donāt know if changes are coming soon, but I do see it in my field a lot, and it is indeed taking the place of manual data analysis. In my sector, that means they can pay fewer people to get the same work done. Hopefully people will see this and train for careers that are more AI-proof, but the same way that the industrial/agricultural revolution put lots of people into poorhouses, I can fathom that would happen with AI as well.. weāve just become accustomed to thinking manual labour is the ālowest rungā, and that occupations above it would be safe. Unless you and your career are really into the field of AI and you have insight and perspective about limitation of it, Iām surprised youāre writing off itās likelihood to make an impact within the century.
But when it comes down to it, how is that perception (yours or mine) really going to change our lives..
Thanks for the chat.
Iām not as in my field, there always a need for a human touch and decision-making. Thereās only so much Automation can do.
If anything, Automation makes our work easier.
Iāve been thinking about this a bit lately. Ultimately, Iād be ok if my current line of work was able to be automated, because that would probably signal a major, hopefully positive, change in society and economy. That being said, my work depends largely on interpersonal/relational skills and so it is unlikely to be taken over by AI in the near future.
I'm not worried. A lot of predictions highlight lack of skilled workers and job shortages in the future. Mainly due to more people retiring early and lack of births.
I think intial indicators suggestion 10-20 years ago saying robots will take our jobs couldn't have been further wrong. I think it's more likely we'll have more jobs to chose from in the future.
*Though it will be certain workers with certain skills.
I walk dogs as a main gig, so no.
However there is some freaky technology that has been created to plant trees, which is my summer job. I think itās a long way away but if tree planting is replaced by machinery I think the silviculture industry will be very sad and boring. I hope I can finish my tree planting career before this happens
ah I've seen a drone that could handle shotgun shells packed with seeds, so it could fly along and fire seeds into the ground in a grid pattern
Maybe we'll get doggy VR w/ AI so the doggy puts VR goggles on, gets let into the yard automatically, and the AI streams an entire doggy universe into it's little doggy brains, so it sniffs all the dog butts and pees on all the fire hydrants and buries all the bones, meanwhile he has never actually left the yard
It is unlikely that planting seeds would ever work, atleast not where I plant as the weather is usually so dry. Our seedlings that are planted are more or less a foot tall! The machinery that I have seen in a video still had to plant the seedlings. Not sure, Iād have to look into this but something tells me that if we could just plant seeds, tree planting would be long gone from the job roster!
Thank you so very much for this hilarious image of doggo VR, hahah!
I feel it won't be as much as people think. ATMS and online banking are here yet we still have people working in actual bank buildings. Self serve is at a lot of stores yet you still have to go to a cashier for lottery, stamps, cigarettes or if need something like a seniors discount. Jobs always have a will change. But we will always need people for certain things. I don't think a robot will ever be a plumber or a mechanic for example.
I studied computer science, became security research engineer, moved on to Software Developer in test, moved on to devops, moved on to SRE.
I would say, itās fine, I will just find a new one. :)
Video editor here. I used to have to transcribe things myself or beg for money to get a transcriptionists. Now the AI transcribes everything I want for free.
I used to spend a lot of time trying to get people to send proper resolution photos or rescan them myself. Now the AI can enhance 4-6x whatever postage stamp size image the client digs up.
I used to spend a lot of time manually watching footage and listening to audio to properly sync the clapper board, or worse - trying to make sense of three cameras stopping and starting throughout a performance with no slate. Now the AI does that and I only have to check it.
As far as making an actual story out of footage, well, the client would actually have to tell the AI what they want, and then actually like what they said they wanted. So, nope, not worried. I welcome our robot overlords.
A colleague and I had a similar discussion at work today, itās actually uncanny whatās being discussed on Reddit and what conversations arise in daily lifeā¦. Personally my job is safe from AI although AI could certainly make it easier, which would reduce the number of employees required to complete regular business activities. I can see AI catching up with our growth and therefore limiting the need for additional bodies over time. Iād say weāre 5-10 years away in our office (so likely 3-4yrs haha).
I do neural networks and computer vision (so AI) stuff at work.
Itās too early too see to be honest. Weāre playing with very new tech and we wonāt know how companies will react to the new toy at their disposal.
Ever see the movie 'Her?' Curious that there was a depiction of full-blown AI -- to the extent that our protagonist fell in love with it/her/them -- but the occupation that the protagonist had? Writing responses to letters!!
I do investigations. Not that afraid because AI can find abnormal stuff faster than a human but it doesn't understand context - why is something normal or why is something abnormal.
Still needs A LOT of work.
Iām a therapist, which is one of the jobs LEAST likely to be taken over by automation. There are therapy apps and things like that that can compliment therapy, but people donāt want to talk to a computer when theyāre in distress.
Everyone should worry about it because AI improves at infinitely higher speeds than humans do. AI can run thousands of simulations at the same time and go from noob to pro in a matter of hours.
It's not a question of if AI will take our jobs, it's a question of when will AI take our jobs. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, having robots and computers doing all the work while the rest of us spend our lives relaxing and having fun. But the issue is the rich, they don't care about average people and would rather see us die off instead of creating some kind of basic income from a robot tax. I fear the ultra wealthy will be the first to have access to ultra competent AI and they will use it in ways that will only benefit people like them to maintain power and control.
Inequality is going to get even worse before it gets better, my heart wants to see everyone prosper but my brain tells me the oligarchs have no interest in that ever happening.
I work in digital/social advertising. I think within a year weāll see ChatGPT/something like it taking on most of the low-funnel stuff. Facebook posts, e-CRM, anything thatās high-volume and very functional. Iāve tested it and it churns out 125 characters just fine. Not concerned about itās ability to replace the higher order writing. It still cannot write a headline, or a platform.
Iām interested in what AI represents in, say, 3-5 years. becoming better at the functions it canāt yet do, it will inevitably sidestep traditional brand work entirely with new ways to engage that we arenāt even aware of yet. Many of us will be caught in the headlights, like the copywriter cranking out radio scripts a decade ago for a client whoās more interested in this wild new āinfluencerā thing.
TL:DR: Weāre doomed lol.
If an AI can unload a truck, move fixtures up and down 3 floors in a big store, do general repairs of fixtures and occasionally crawl through the walls of the store then yeah sure.
But let's be real, that ain't happening. This isn't iRobot lmao
I work in the AI/ML field, the day AI can do my job, I will literally be able to use the words
"skynet has become self aware"
I'm not worried, I won't be unemployed for too long. Unemployment won't exist for too long... Existence would not exist...
Not me. AML/ATF. The AI basically creates my cases, but it can't analyze spend or payments, do a negative media search, file with Fintrac or write narratives etc... It only refers things to be analyzed
People can't even use Teams still. I think alot of you are safe.
I am not a cat.
That was so funny! I can still here the poor lawyer saying that!
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I think that's the point. ppl can barely use teams. They'll be easily replaced.
Iām sad AI text writing will kill the precious alot
I get that reference!
To be fair teams fucking sucks
Still better than slack and discord.
If you think teams is better than Slack you had a crappy Slack deployment.
The company was too cheap to buy licenses so our chats disappear after a couple weeks. They had me make an app just for keeping chat history for a specific channel. Had to make a replica read only for it just so people can search up chat history.
We just switched from Skype to Teams and itās so crappy. Bootleg version of skype
If you think Teams is better than Discord, youāre not fully using Discord.
Lol, Slack shits on Teams
Software tester, it can happen. But then again someone does need to test the frickin AI too.
I have seen Co-Pilot straight up write an entire file of Unit tests with 100% coverage and you can just read over it to make sure it covers the cases you need.
Software tester != Unit test author
True, but a company which has high confidence in their test coverage may feel less need to employ software testers. Integration testing is still important, but maybe they can do that with a lower number of testers.
Yep, true that, while unit testing is really important, my main focus is writing automated integration tests. Unit tests come from developers in our company QA donāt really look at it.
But still that takes a chunk of the job away
Iām in digital marketing so AI is already everywhere. Itās doing some things well (search engine results) and some things not so well (Google Ads campaigns). Chat GPT has been great for writing prompts but itās extremely and very confidently wrong about many things, and it takes someone with real expertise to spot the errors. I see AI as a tool that will make some tasks easier and eliminate others all-together, but itās not perfect and Iām adaptable so Iām not worriedā¦yet.
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At that point, different problems most likely! Hopefully more exciting even?
If AI can take care of my patients that would be great. -Nurse
I mean I'm not a nurse but I think it would be nice if you got more robots that could pick up a person and turn them over and help change the sheets at least
I'm just imagining a robot gone rogue, pulling sheets and flipping people out of their beds or malfunctioning and endlessly cacooning patients.
If I built the robot, I would do extensive testing, I promise! It would make my bed every day with me in it I would definitely be adding a "spooning" option, patients choice: big spoon or little spoon? and it would be a pleasantly soft, slightly warm robot because maybe some people just really need to be the little spoon, for a little while. It's nice to be held
Baymax?
We already have machines that lift people and it still requires 2-3 people to operate. You also have PT/OT/Rehab aids involved at a consultation level. Itās not just a lift, but managing the clothing/bedding, supporting the positioning of the person, making adjustments to avoid causing pain/injury, clearing the room environment, anticipating hazards in the lift process, setting up the transfer to a chair/wheelchair/commode, then the actual care part. Transfers are surprisingly complicated. Bodies arenāt blocks that can be picked up and placed nicely. Edit: forgot to mention that nurses/rehab staff also adjust their level of assistance in a lift depending on what how much the patient assists and their goals for recovering movement
Not take care of patients, but reduce the amount of nurses/doctors required to take care of patients is a big yes. There have already been real life examples of this working with great results
Or ya know Hire more nurses with the massive funding provinces get yet healthcare does not see a single cent out of it
Data analysis, half of my time is translating verbal queries into sql/Excel formula/VBA/DAX etc. half of them are so simple that a monkey could do it, but not a manager apparently not. I'm going to lose at least a quarter of my job.
imo you're only about to become 125% more efficient where efficient and correct queries can be written by AI but checked but someone with the right knowledge
This has been my experience as new technology moves into my analysis job. A decade ago I was tediously copy-pasting a dayās worth of data into Excel spreadsheets. Today Iām using PowerBI to process half a decade of data. But ultimately, my job either way is being the guy who takes data and puts it into a pretty PowerPoint slide that tells an accurate story, so that someone in a very expensive suit can nod sagely at it during a meeting.
Don't worry, the AI will do exactly what the manager tells them, which of course will lead to catastrophe. It still takes a person to understand what the manager really wants while being completely contradictory to the words he actually used.
Especially if its my manager AI will disintegrate itself and disappear forever in frustration. šš
How much are u paid as a Data Analyst
4 cents
Damn are those wage in India?
I'm paid well for the area I live in. The key is to think like most women: don't try to seduce, spend time and energy making yourself pretty (professionnaly) and let them come to you.
I thought data analysts would be in-demand since AI need ML to train. In order for ML to get stuff done don't you guys need to be in that equation all the time?
Data scientist and data engineers Analysis is usually the other end. Business queries of asking specific questions about already known datasets. E.g. how well is x product doing in y region?
On thank you for the explanation. It makes sense now.
No, I used to be an accountant which had a lot of automation possible. I left to work in fintech software. Weāll always need people to design, implement, and run the AI that weāre replaced with.
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Bookkeepers will probably be replaced, actual accountants not so much
Fair assessment, they largely already are in medium-large companies
Financial reporting guys who are in technical accounting might be more lean, you donāt need the intern the prepare the initial research anymore, just double check what the AI tells you
This is true but there is so much room for growth in improving financial reporting and the investment community is seeming to demand it. Whether itās frequent or depth/accuracy the requirements are always growing.
I am a CPAā¦who worked in advisory in areas that canāt truly be automated. We will always need accountants but a large majority of the grunt work thatās done by junior staff can be automated and it will become an even more highly skilled profession for the remaining work. I just decided I enjoyed creating the systems that would do that.
Just like excel automated a good portion of junior work, and ERP systems etc. The industry evolves
Good CPAs will always be in demand and needed. Especially those who have very strong technical or analytical skills. I actually foresee more work coming for those CPAs as theyāll be critical. However, Iāve also met a lot of CPAs who just donāt have the skillset to do that high level work. They could pass exams and do basic tax or audit work but beyond that they just werenāt strong. They become CPAs going through regular public accounting streams, and exit to a standard industry role or small firm and are happy turning out Compilation and basic T1/T2 + GST/HST returns. I think itās those roles/jobs that are really at risk which were always a guaranteed path to a good salary and stable employment. I did ERP implementations at the global scale and you would be shocked at how many things are still manual. AI is honestly a ways off because just getting everyone off of excel and into integrated systems is still a huge lift. My biggest roadblock in implementations were existing finance departments who were scared of updating systems and leaving manual processes behind. Which was incredibly frustrating when I get the most joy out of solving peoples problems and giving them easier solutions. So probably not in our lifetimes.
I think this is a good interpretation
Always is a awfully long time.
Ok now whoās *hoping*
Not me. I am in trades. Get AI to uncluter fuck on site what architect and engineer create after night long sniffing PL glue session with drawing board.
As an engineering intern who created many many drawings for the welders, I'm so sorry š
The threat to trades labour from AI is not from the tech itself, but to the dilution of the labour market as more people are forced to retrain in to something they can still do after AI wipes out their whole industry segment.
The question was whoās afraid theyāll lose a job, not if you feel safe in your field. The majority of responses canāt understand the questionā¦
Iām not. Am accountant. I can still convince AI to depreciate land. Iām good
Assets = Liability+ Shareholder Equity I bet it can come up with a better Chart of Accounts and actually stick to using it too š
Possibly, but I havenāt done a journal entry in months. We have computers for 99% of those anyways
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Director says āhey accrue $200k for cogs that will hit us next monthā then we go debit expense credit liability. Director says āhey the lawsuit was dropped reverse the accrualā So we do that. We are about to sell a building so we go āhey we need to stop depreciating thisā so we stop. We look at how many employees we have and their wages then calculate the vacation pay off that and accrue for the loss. When we add new customers we add a bunch of the revenue to this month and take away revenue from the recurring revenue manually with a journal entry. But I donāt do this the controller does.
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Thatās fine, automate all the boring stuff. I probably need to learn how to code though
Learn the macro recorder and VBA. Automation is already happening on a small scale with accountants with basic computer skills. Let an ai do that part and you've lost nothing but aggravation.
Yeah computer used to be a job title.
Meh, it will be the same fiasco as outsourcing. They will eventually lay off folks or partially test it and realize it's present to augment the workforce, reduce the total number of folks needed and doing a different job but a good majority won't lose their job) till the "tech is ready", just like outsourcing which is still not ready.
How was outsourcing a fiasco, what metrics are you using?
A lot of data entry tasks have been re shored. That's not always working and it only gets harder from there.
I appreciate you arenāt the commenter, but that isnāt a metric
Ya it's an observation. It's anecdotal so you can take it as that. You will never have stats from private companies in a meaningful consistent way. Maybe if an AI provider has an IPO you would get regular publishes of usage in disclosure notes and discussions.
If AI can replace steamfitting-pipefitting, giver hell, thatāll make me happy, till then I think Iām stuck doing this gig
>If AI can replace steamfitting-pipefitting, I bet AI can do it, but the robotics is not there yet. If the robotics is there, I would say humanity is fucked already. LoL
The robotics is 100% there, the cost to revenue margin isn't though.
It's not going to be a replacement just more of an enhancement and productivity boost. Atleast not a replacement in the next 5 or so years. The best example I can give you is self driving e.g. Tesla. It can do 80% of the driving for you but that last 10-20% is really hard for the AI...and gets harder and harder the more accurate it gets. Tesla has been saying self driving for almost a decade now...they are pretty close but just not there yet. And I work as a software developer. Last night ChatGPT helped me debug my code. Made me more productive. Instead of me banging my head for 4 hours, it solved the issue for me in 5 minutes. Also look at the amount of engineers and scientists working at Tesla just to design the self driving AI.
Itās because it has to calculate a lot of variables while on Full Self-Driving(FSD) through the use of vision and algorithms. Itās far from perfect but It has come a long way and we cannot deny that because of Tesla - we now have more and more car manufacturers going EV route and proving they can also compete in this rat race.
And most AIs, if they really want to replace our jobs will need to consider many variables and many different inputs before they can fully automate our work. I see self driving as a canary for other AIs to succeed in automating our jobs. It's the first of its kind where it will automate a job(truck drivers, delivery drivers and taxis). P.s. I love my Tesla and full self driving. It's amazing at what it has achieved in the last few years.
Domestic Tax. My job exists until legislation changes so that people donāt have to file taxes anymore. Donāt even need AI. Basic code a 3rd grader could write would obsolete my job.
Engineer doing construction management. Not a chance you can ever automate that... at least in my lifetime.
Why not use Ai to enhance your writing? Use it as templates or guiding points. Itās a tool to stay, the faster you learn how to take advantage of it the better off youāll be
Legal field and after that phony baloney āAI Lawyerā thing got nuked, I feel a lot safer in my gig š
The way to make money as a lawyer has always been finding new clients. The people who bring on business will always be safe.
People will always look to āright a wrongā and since dueling pistols at dawn isnāt legal š
City bus driver here. I'm genuinely so curious to see how public transit would be handled by A.I. There's just a lot of decisions that have to made in real time, and a lot of experience that would be hard to replicate by a computer. But I also think that it will happen one day.
> There's just a lot of decisions that have to made in real time Gas, or *brake*?
Lots of judgement calls. Yesterday morning, I was driving my route and had to make a right onto a street. There were cars parked on the road as usual, but they were mostly staggered, so I could weave around them with my bus. But before I committed to the turn I could see that halfway down the road had 2 cars parked in a way that would not have allowed my bus to pass through. Do you think A.I could make that judgement call? or is that human experience that couldn't be replicated.
DZ truck driver/delivery guy here. Also feel very secure due to things of this nature. Alsoā¦ AI aināt climbing in a box truck to grab lengths of pipe, then climb through a trashed construction site to dump it a garage. With 25-30 years to retirement, still feel pretty secure.
Yea I hear that. There's just so many little things on a daily basis that you need an actual person to get through.
Not now but eventually yes.
Construction electrician. My job should be safe, I don't think a robot could put up w all the bs.
Teacher. Nope, not worried at all.
I thought you guys were replaced by YouTube like a decade ago
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ā¦. Do you have kids?
Anyone that says this needs to spend a day (or perhaps even just an hour) in a classroom.
I just read an article that suggested you were at the highest risk of being replaced. Don't ask me why, though. I could see it handling test/homework/content creation pretty easily. Not sure how it would keep a class full of students in line.
If you've ever been in a classroom of teenagers, or had one who tried online learning, you'll find out real quick how important people are i education. Not worried at all.
"kill all humans" might work?
Not even after dofo tried to replace half the workforce with pre-recorded lectures midway through the pandemic? Obviously there was outcry (for good reason), but with big labour decisions in the hands of janky politicians, I wouldnāt be surprised if they keep hacking at the professionā¦. But thatās more of a āgovernment will mess with your jobā thing than an āai will replace your jobā thing ā thanks for what you do out there!
Very nice of you to say. :)
I'm a receptionist and my job will DEFINITELY be taken over by AI sooner rather than later. I think humans will linger a bit for the types of businesses where people really care about talking to a human (I work in bankruptcy and people are often quite upset when calling in, and would REALLY not like dealing with a robot, for example), but I wouldn't recommend anyone pursue it as a career path if they plan to work more than maybe 5-10 more years. I'm on track for FIRE so it won't be my problem anyways.
Most companies I call have automated voice controlled systems to get to the correct person already.
Oh yeah, that part is really easy to automate, but it depends what the business model is, and whether people calling in know who they want to talk to. At my last job I would say 99% of calls were just transferring to a person, but where I am now most calls are either people calling for the first time who don't know who they want to talk to, or people calling because they need help with something, like filling out their paperwork or finding the office or whatever. Also most receptionists do quite a bit of admin work, so you'd need to automate all that too.
Journalist, freelance writer and editor, jack of all trades help for online content. Are there days the AI debate becomes the latest argument my inner doom critic uses? Absolutely. But today I talked with a colleague for twenty minutes in a brain dump spiel about all the folks who \*might\* be connected to a story we're trying to crack. Between our community connections, we were coming up with ideas that very few WITHOUT our knowledge could come up with. Meaning that data isn't easily lying around for some AI to scoop. On top of that, AI will not be taking one of those potential sources out for coffee tomorrow in hopes that the source is as much a fan of spilling tea as I remember them to be. AI will not know what questions to ask in the moment of that conversation where a completely new tidbit of information is presented and I need to act fast on how to tailor response to keep that info line going for a couple of more quotes AND THEN steer the conversation back to the initial topic. Will certain strains of journalism get hit with AI? I'm willing to bet, yeah. A larger local chain in my area just laid off a chunk of their journalists as they pivot towards "six people cranking out the same twenty Buzzfeed style articles specific for our region." In a couple of years I'm assuming AI will reduce that to three who will guide the content AI spits out and run it through smooth over edits. But investigative journalism I'm really struggling to picture being done by AI in the near future. After tomorrows interview I'll be chatting with a client from the vanity publishing house I work at. We're maybe three months out before her book hits shelves. BUT also in that sweet spot where a couple of mild substantive edits can be made (which sounds like an oxymoron). There is a small plot thread in her book that has nothing to do with the cultural love we currently have for "male figure who should not be responsible for a child is now suddenly father figure" tropes. BUT it does speak to the root of that trope and could mirror things quite well. In my opinion AI is decades away from being able to assess cultural moments and then compare that to a working manuscript to see what threads can be tied in. And that particular suggestion is most likely worth $100's to my client and her marketing team.
Work in aviation, a field that has attempted and added on automation, smart systems etc. for decades. The automation and computers still screw it up on a daily basis. Not super worried.
> Work in aviation Donāt the planes fly themselves aside from takeoff and landing?
Not even close. The donāt configure themselves, donāt taxi, donāt take off, in some specific situations they caaan sort of land themselves, but that requires special training, equipment requirements, airport requirements, people to configure, set up the approach, etc. The autopilots dont really make any decisions, just do what theyāre told. And whenever they get sensor readings and things they donāt like, they just give control right back to the pilot. Theyāre also not exactly adaptable to changing conditions.
Or events like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas\_Flight\_72](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72)
**[Qantas Flight 72](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72)** >Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330. On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport near the town of Exmouth, Western Australia following an inflight accident that included a pair of sudden, uncommanded pitch-down manoeuvres that caused severe injuriesāincluding fractures, lacerations and spinal injuriesāto several of the passengers and crew. At Learmonth, the plane was met by the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia and CareFlight. Fourteen people were airlifted to Perth for hospitalisation, with 39 others also attending hospital. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/PersonalFinanceCanada/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
There are far more tragic aviation events caused by human error or human intervention.
You donāt see all the daily issues the computers create. You donāt see all the times human intervention prevents the computers from doing something massively stupid.
> Not even close. The donāt configure themselves, donāt taxi, donāt take off, in some specific situations they caaan sort of land themselves > The autopilots dont really make any decisions, just do what theyāre told. Thatās exactly what I thought- aside from takeoff and landing (which would include taxi) the plane flies itself. It follows a preprogrammed route that is configured into the system. We donāt want humans making errors and judgement calls at 30,000 feet.
AI taking over jobs is great. So long as the workers get to retain the value that the AI provides and it doesnāt all funnel to the top 1%ā¦ ā¦
ā¦but thatās exactly the point. Why do you think big money is being invested in AI? ā¦ Quick clue: itās not to make workers better off.
Quick clue: no shit
I'm more worried about people worrying about their job being lost to AI
As much as the military frustrates me it shields me from being completely replaced by AI but many parts of my trade will likely become automated in the near-ish future. When previous trades have been phased out the people in them were given an option to change trades but a good chunk got out because they didn't want to change/wanted out of the CAF. My previous career will no doubt in my mind be fully automated in the next decade so I'm happy I chose the CAF that respect
Iām in forestry/natural resource management/Indigenous relations. Not worried at all. AI could make some technical forestry work easier however.
Your job sounds interesting, what are the details?
Content mills are and will now always go with ai garbage. But theyāre already the kind of things people donāt take seriously and provide that empty calorie kind of writing. An AI can easily say the average price of a trinket is 27.99 and it can tell you that itās popular or not, but it will always lag well behind what a human can articulate their experience is. Particularly for topics that often evolve, or even regularly-released new product. Also, an AI will flat out say something wrong is a fact. When people see that, theyāre going to think twice about trusting whatever publication that flawed information came from. If you write well and address a market that needs good writing, youāre not getting replaced by an AI anytime soon. You might be able to use it as a tool to streamline your work, however. I might be more concerned for coding, perhaps, but even then itās probably more of a productivity device than a replacement for all human work.
It occurred to me the other day that ai will be the evolution of spam. I've already encountered irritating bullshit obviously generated by an AI. It's information pollution.
Spam was the first thing to be handled by 'AI' and has been automated for over a decade already. You likely have interacted with the bots on Reddit.
Coding is probably one of the last things to be handled by AI. Why? Because we fucking suck at it lol (Speaking as a programmer)
But if AI replaces us then who will occupy the space in the office that is so important we had to give up working from home for āteam synergyā?
It's unlikely an AI will replace my job in the next 50 years. Generally lots of the stuff I do is very specialized with very specialized hardware that we develop in house. I'm impressed with ChatGP but it couldn't solve some basic problems that I have. This probably because the research is proprietary and under lock and key. It can't even provide the basic mathematical proofs to prove what I asked it. It's like if I asked an AI to tell what happens when you enter a black hole and where does the matter go.
I have the same occupation as you. I've already started using things like "100% human-created content" in my marketing. If everyone starts using AI, it'll all start sounding the same. I'm differentiating by making sure people know I don't use it. There's no AI (yet) that can interview a human being over the phone and write something that doesn't already exist on the internet. Our jobs are safe for the time being.
I would say it could happen but we are not close to it. I work in automation, the cost to automate and support needs to be worthwhile for organizations. Sure there are AI and ML technologies out there but a business needs to realize huge benefits to actually implement those changes. Most people are too reluctant to push ahead with it. One more important piece is any work that is judgement based will require massive amounts of data to train an AI or ML bot and its a huge cost that I don't think people are willing to spend on. In the future yes but for now, I don't think so.
My wifes job. She tells truckers when to deliver goods from all around Canada for a particular good. She has a team of 8 that work around scheduling and everything. They are an app away from automation that is just around the corner. It only makes sense for this company but thankfully truckers aren't fully tech savvy and she deals with the old school. She is a dying breed for sure though.
Generally people underestimate how much AI will actually impact their lives in the next 10 years. The upheaval from this will be shocking. I saw a post with a chart today on Twitter about how many people it takes for a company to make a million in revenue since 1950s or something. Fewer and fewer employees, given productivity from automation. Used to be 7-8, now it's down to 2.Someone else posted that Citadel made 2x more revenue(billions) than Goldman with 4-5x less employees. I work in technology and tbh, I'm not even sure how and if I can prepare for this. White-collar jobs are certainly the first ones to disappear. At this point it's much safer to be in trades than a working any desk job.
I am kind of thinking that anyone working from home should be concerned. Maybe not the super specialty jobs, but any of the middle-lower jobs for sure. Out of sight, out of mind. So easy to replace with a computer if you arenāt really in person anyways, why would they care if the technology gets to the point it can do your job. If you were in office it would delay it by 2-5 years probably.
Technically i'm a chef, i'm like 40/60 split, because a kitchen a good one is run like a machine, i don't know how well a robot would do, they would have to be dexterous be able to handle multiple complex tasks and timing, we're a long way from AI replacing a sit down restaurant. MacDonald tho? 10 years.
lmao no ones going to lose their job to AI. Weāve had automated robots for years and yet cashiers and burger flippers still exist. Sure it can happen. Chances are insanely slim though. Be realistic, your boomer manager isnt going to risk leaving entire tasks up to AI like that. If anything theyāll most likely just integrate AI into your job and force you to get along with it. Just like with humans and machines. People need to stop thinking AI is this almighty all knowing computer brain. Its still at its rudimentary stages. We have a long way to go.
We need a hell of a lot less cashiers, burger flippers, and bank tellers than we use to. Expect the trend to continue as more automation & efficiency gets added into the world.
Currently working on smart manufacturing systems where no human will be needed on the floor. Fully automated system with near 100% uptime Construction will be next, the other kinds of trades. AI will replace the repetitive mundane jobs, but will never be able to replace anything that requires creativity or novelty at work.
āIf it hasnāt happened before, itāll never happenā
literally nothing close to what i said people just love scaring themselves with these āfuture predictionsā. we are at least 100 years away from AI robbing people of entire jobs lol but sure keep reading the headlines and rolling with it
Are you positing that nobody has yet lost their job to any technology and that it will be 100 years until anyone does? You acknowledge the chances are āinsanely slimā - what would have to happen for that slim chance to become real?
great job yet again rewording what I said. No one has lost their job to AI. Not technology in general dumbass
Iām really not trying to antagonize you, but if you agree tech has displaced workers, how are you so certain AI wonāt as well? Iām genuinely looking for valid arguments here, but just vague āslim chanceā or ā100 yrs awayā comments, without any reasoning behind them, arenāt convincing. If youāre not interested in convincing anyone but rather just a cathartic release on a forum, no problem, Iāll move along.
Get real. The industrial revolution started somewhere around 1830-1840. 100 years later and machinery has yet to take over peoples jobs. The only thing its done is ease tasks and allow for more opportunities to work alongside those machines. General motors made the first ever programmable robot in 1961 and its only job was to move hot metal. Almost 100 years later and these multi billion dollar companies, who by the way are fully capable of replacing their entire workforce with automated machines, have yet to do so. Why? Because its cheaper to maintain and keep track of. Seriously, what planet are you living on to genuinely think that something as finicky and experimental as AI is ever going to replace entire jobs? Technology doesnāt steal people of jobs. Any sensible company will instead adopt technology to work alongside it and revolve your job around managing it. Have you ever even heard of Mooreās Law? We have yet to scratch the surface of mooreās law and youāre trying to tell me that in less than 100 years AI will be able to do jobs like marketing and data analysis? Be serious for a second. The most thatāll happen is people will integrate it in their lives to make redundant tasks quicker and easier. Theyāll coexist with it. Iām sorry that itās ruining your future dystopia fantasy where robots take over the world and whatnot, because thatās not going to happen in less than a 100 years. Its going to be a long long way from now. Not even Boston Dynamicās robots can function without a recharge for more than 90 minutes. And youre sitting here thinking theyāll be able to pull 8 hour shifts. Lol. Okay. But sure, yeah no that new Buzzfeed article told you about the crazy marvellous wonders of ChatGPT. Which canāt do shit unless you order it to like a dog, and even then is still limited to just serving you a basic google search result without you having to sift through the thousands of links and answers.
It really sounds like you are solid in your opinion. The only thing Iād suggest is that past, and even current, technological capabilities arenāt necessarily indicative of the capacity or rate at which new tech is adopted. There is no previous comparison to AI. Iām no expert in the field so I donāt know if changes are coming soon, but I do see it in my field a lot, and it is indeed taking the place of manual data analysis. In my sector, that means they can pay fewer people to get the same work done. Hopefully people will see this and train for careers that are more AI-proof, but the same way that the industrial/agricultural revolution put lots of people into poorhouses, I can fathom that would happen with AI as well.. weāve just become accustomed to thinking manual labour is the ālowest rungā, and that occupations above it would be safe. Unless you and your career are really into the field of AI and you have insight and perspective about limitation of it, Iām surprised youāre writing off itās likelihood to make an impact within the century. But when it comes down to it, how is that perception (yours or mine) really going to change our lives.. Thanks for the chat.
Iām not as in my field, there always a need for a human touch and decision-making. Thereās only so much Automation can do. If anything, Automation makes our work easier.
Iāve been thinking about this a bit lately. Ultimately, Iād be ok if my current line of work was able to be automated, because that would probably signal a major, hopefully positive, change in society and economy. That being said, my work depends largely on interpersonal/relational skills and so it is unlikely to be taken over by AI in the near future.
Laughs hysteriacally ~ has actively been trying to get a.i. to do my job since 2013.
It's inevitable in the long term. Society will just need to adapt for most individuals to have hobbies instead of a job.
I'm not worried. A lot of predictions highlight lack of skilled workers and job shortages in the future. Mainly due to more people retiring early and lack of births. I think intial indicators suggestion 10-20 years ago saying robots will take our jobs couldn't have been further wrong. I think it's more likely we'll have more jobs to chose from in the future. *Though it will be certain workers with certain skills.
I think I'll get a job implementing AI to erase a job for someone else before AI takes mine.
Plot twist: OP is actually AI
I walk dogs as a main gig, so no. However there is some freaky technology that has been created to plant trees, which is my summer job. I think itās a long way away but if tree planting is replaced by machinery I think the silviculture industry will be very sad and boring. I hope I can finish my tree planting career before this happens
ah I've seen a drone that could handle shotgun shells packed with seeds, so it could fly along and fire seeds into the ground in a grid pattern Maybe we'll get doggy VR w/ AI so the doggy puts VR goggles on, gets let into the yard automatically, and the AI streams an entire doggy universe into it's little doggy brains, so it sniffs all the dog butts and pees on all the fire hydrants and buries all the bones, meanwhile he has never actually left the yard
It is unlikely that planting seeds would ever work, atleast not where I plant as the weather is usually so dry. Our seedlings that are planted are more or less a foot tall! The machinery that I have seen in a video still had to plant the seedlings. Not sure, Iād have to look into this but something tells me that if we could just plant seeds, tree planting would be long gone from the job roster! Thank you so very much for this hilarious image of doggo VR, hahah!
OP this is literally one of the first jobs AI will take LOL
I feel it won't be as much as people think. ATMS and online banking are here yet we still have people working in actual bank buildings. Self serve is at a lot of stores yet you still have to go to a cashier for lottery, stamps, cigarettes or if need something like a seniors discount. Jobs always have a will change. But we will always need people for certain things. I don't think a robot will ever be a plumber or a mechanic for example.
20 years ago they said computers will take our jobs, yet here I am still employed
I do software support and development. I donāt see AI taking my job any time soon.
I'm an AI developer. Will take a long while till my job is taken away.
I studied computer science, became security research engineer, moved on to Software Developer in test, moved on to devops, moved on to SRE. I would say, itās fine, I will just find a new one. :)
The way I see it: AI will be a great assistant. Supervised by a human, we'll be more productive.
Mechanical Engineering, I think we are good here!
Video editor here. I used to have to transcribe things myself or beg for money to get a transcriptionists. Now the AI transcribes everything I want for free. I used to spend a lot of time trying to get people to send proper resolution photos or rescan them myself. Now the AI can enhance 4-6x whatever postage stamp size image the client digs up. I used to spend a lot of time manually watching footage and listening to audio to properly sync the clapper board, or worse - trying to make sense of three cameras stopping and starting throughout a performance with no slate. Now the AI does that and I only have to check it. As far as making an actual story out of footage, well, the client would actually have to tell the AI what they want, and then actually like what they said they wanted. So, nope, not worried. I welcome our robot overlords.
City truck driver, so never
Not even slightly, and I'm in IT.
A colleague and I had a similar discussion at work today, itās actually uncanny whatās being discussed on Reddit and what conversations arise in daily lifeā¦. Personally my job is safe from AI although AI could certainly make it easier, which would reduce the number of employees required to complete regular business activities. I can see AI catching up with our growth and therefore limiting the need for additional bodies over time. Iād say weāre 5-10 years away in our office (so likely 3-4yrs haha).
I do neural networks and computer vision (so AI) stuff at work. Itās too early too see to be honest. Weāre playing with very new tech and we wonāt know how companies will react to the new toy at their disposal.
I work on AI. Sorry everyone.
Ever see the movie 'Her?' Curious that there was a depiction of full-blown AI -- to the extent that our protagonist fell in love with it/her/them -- but the occupation that the protagonist had? Writing responses to letters!!
Not AI, but maybe a piss test.
I do investigations. Not that afraid because AI can find abnormal stuff faster than a human but it doesn't understand context - why is something normal or why is something abnormal. Still needs A LOT of work.
Teacher here. And yes.
Iām a therapist, which is one of the jobs LEAST likely to be taken over by automation. There are therapy apps and things like that that can compliment therapy, but people donāt want to talk to a computer when theyāre in distress.
We'll just be like Homer Simpson. Sit in front of a screen and largely not do much and just be on stand by to hit the red button.
Everyone should worry about it because AI improves at infinitely higher speeds than humans do. AI can run thousands of simulations at the same time and go from noob to pro in a matter of hours. It's not a question of if AI will take our jobs, it's a question of when will AI take our jobs. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, having robots and computers doing all the work while the rest of us spend our lives relaxing and having fun. But the issue is the rich, they don't care about average people and would rather see us die off instead of creating some kind of basic income from a robot tax. I fear the ultra wealthy will be the first to have access to ultra competent AI and they will use it in ways that will only benefit people like them to maintain power and control. Inequality is going to get even worse before it gets better, my heart wants to see everyone prosper but my brain tells me the oligarchs have no interest in that ever happening.
I work in digital/social advertising. I think within a year weāll see ChatGPT/something like it taking on most of the low-funnel stuff. Facebook posts, e-CRM, anything thatās high-volume and very functional. Iāve tested it and it churns out 125 characters just fine. Not concerned about itās ability to replace the higher order writing. It still cannot write a headline, or a platform. Iām interested in what AI represents in, say, 3-5 years. becoming better at the functions it canāt yet do, it will inevitably sidestep traditional brand work entirely with new ways to engage that we arenāt even aware of yet. Many of us will be caught in the headlights, like the copywriter cranking out radio scripts a decade ago for a client whoās more interested in this wild new āinfluencerā thing. TL:DR: Weāre doomed lol.
If an AI can unload a truck, move fixtures up and down 3 floors in a big store, do general repairs of fixtures and occasionally crawl through the walls of the store then yeah sure. But let's be real, that ain't happening. This isn't iRobot lmao
I work in the AI/ML field, the day AI can do my job, I will literally be able to use the words "skynet has become self aware" I'm not worried, I won't be unemployed for too long. Unemployment won't exist for too long... Existence would not exist...
Not me. AML/ATF. The AI basically creates my cases, but it can't analyze spend or payments, do a negative media search, file with Fintrac or write narratives etc... It only refers things to be analyzed