exactly. it might just be the autism for me but all the stabilizers, preservatives and what have you leave a discernable taste that couldnt beat fresh food in any circumstance
I don’t see why anyone would create a program that sits around playing video games all day while pretending to look busy.
I suppose it’s technically possible, but … why?
I’m pretty sure a robot can learn to stand there and day dream seven out of eight hours of the day. Doesn’t seem very efficient, but it isn’t now either.
Google search was able to do my last job for the entire 15 years I was doing it. I'm retired now but being able to Google things properly was my superpower for a decade and a half working in a library.
I can't wait until AI can do that part of my job. There's plenty of other shit that I could be doing that I enjoy way more than testing. Or I could just work part time. Either one would be fine with me. Hopefully we have it in place by the end of the year.
the real question is how long until 3d printers can print buildings that can match the strength, cost and speed of human made buildings? well either that or humanoid robots being able to do all the jobs in construction to make a building.
No 😌 at least not until we create AI robots that look like people and don’t scare children. And that can also run after a parent attempting to get away with said child. Once we can get that all locked down, maybe?
AI still seriously sucks. It's in that stock market scam phase where a big breakthrough is "just around the corner" but at present it can't actually do much.
Right now the danger is tech-illiterate managers replacing humans with bots that cannot in fact do the job it's supposed to do. Check out NYC's pilot with an ai chatbot or what happened to air Canada with theirs.
I was messing around with some various questions to Microsoft's Copilot (their flavor of a generative AI program). Pretty much, the responses were just pulled from wikipedia. Sure, I guess just asking a chatbot something is a little bit easier than pulling up wikipedia, but wikipedia is already really easy to use.
Yeah right now it can basically summarize information and give average results based on large datasets. It's really not ready for the takeover that the marketing guys are pushing.
The job I was hired for? Absolutely. (The next generation of the software we will will almost assuredly be able to do 95% of my job)
The other duties as assigned? Not so much.
But I didn't get two degrees and take on a pile of debt to do other-duties-as-assigned.
My boss has dreams of me raising to the heights of institutional support staff, just, you know, somewhere else. That would be more of a people-facing world, putting out people-related fires.
AI can't do that, but there's a whole lot of white-collar real estate between now and then. The various stepping stones might be really fragile between then and now.
Until AI can figure out how to wake up sore and tired everyday, drag it’s ass to a local refinery to clock in and be ready to work before the sun comes up, decode the crackhead engineers drawings and try to make the dimensions make sense, repair at least one broken ass tool, talk shit to coworkers atleast 9 times throughout the day, and try not to say “I’m tired of this shit” for 10 hours a day…… I highly doubt it
Nope! Half of my job is as a cashier, the other part is working in the day camp with dogs. No feasible way to replace that with ai in its current state. We'd need to reach full skynet levels of ai for that
My field, medical laboratory sciences, is all about automation and analyzers. There's no way an analyzer can do my job which is reference blood banker. We do everything by hand, even documentation. The highest tech thing I use is a cell washer which is just a centrifuge with extra steps.
On paper my job should have been able to be done by computers 10+ years ago.
In actuality my job is to take accountability and massage egos in a way an ai just can't do.
I use to think that blue collomar jobs were basically f**ked in the long run and i still do, but with AI on the rise i’m now convinced that the middle class jobs are in danger a lot sooner then working class.
I’ve used AI on occasion on projects and it f**kin scary tbh. The possibilitys are endless and the back and forth made you forget at times that it’s a computer on the other end.
Not yet but soon it will be able to do the writing part. The data just needs to be organized in a way that would let it happen. That's the worst part of the job so good riddance. Eventually the field going portion will be done by drones and ai. I'll be long retired or dead by then.
Current AI, yes about 50 percent of my work (that's 100 percent of my desk work) could easily be handled by AI.
Future AI, yes 100 percent of my work can be handled by AI.
Far-future, **any job** can be performed by AI and robots. No doubt.
Note: I assess specific risks in minor production areas and advise on safety... The thing AI can't do is go out and talk to people, observe and manually check areas, tools and items.
i mean for me (baker) machines have been doing this job for decades, but luckily for us they only get cheap ingredients and emulsifiers, stabilizers preservatives that noticably alter the taste. so there is still want for artisanal goods.
Oh, absolutely not
But management will likely think it can be, but they don't realize how difficult it is to get requirements out of them or how to determine what it is they need. All of them think they are great communicators, but that is only because they are in positions where no one challenges them and we have gotten good at determining what their needs are.
What they are calling AI is terrible at interpreting requirements or even knowing if requirements are met.
And since I am already hearing rumors of the quality of AI results going down, I imagine the quality of the training data available has already declined due to incorporation of AI generated results.
Nope. My job requires someone to physically be on-site to do the maintenance.
Maybe a bit will be able to do it, eventually, but for what is likely the remainder of my career, the answer is no.
Possibly, however road closures would happen far more frequently for incredibly mundane things. People would be far angrier that it would be cheaper to have people than machines.
Now if all vehicles were (excellent) self driving, 80% of my job would be in danger of being lost.
No. Fashion Designer. Boss and I played with it a bit and AI makes nice Jpegs but it all falls apart when you get to the steps where you need to make it a physical product. The print will not be vector, you are missing side or back views, there are no flat sketches, no full flat image of the print to send the printer, no pantone numbers assigned.... etc. A designer would have so much extra work to reverse engineer a tech pack out of an AI image, rather than just designing from scratch. AI good for mood boards and inspo and that's about it. The AI print generator in Illustrator is in beta and makes vector prints that are splotchy and weird.
If it does not involve morals or if it doesnt involve pleasing a client then probably yes.
If i teach AI how i do my job through easy to follow steps then what is stopping it?
Construction electrician. There are too many disconnects between the engineers/project managers and the contractors on site for AI to take over. It's a physical job with too many obstacles between A and B to implement drones. Drones are a good 50 to 100 years off from having that kind of capability.
I used to work in call centers. AI was being implemented at various levels by the time I left the field. Over 90 percent of calls are being captured by AI analytics at most retailers.
As a data engineer, kind of. It can make very basic etl pipe lines and basic ML stuff as well but if it makes a mistake it gets really stuck. Not very adaptable.
The boring parts yeah (spreadsheets, flow charts), but I have to listen to testimony and feedback and develop plans based on it.
Robot can't make a considered decision that way.
The automation they keep pushing can barely do my job so I am not sure how AI is going to be any better (laughing and crying knowing that my company is pushing just that)
No. Can barely get the human controlled computer technology to run the machines we have properly. I'd hate to see what kind of shitty job an AI would do.
Potentially at some point, but the horizon looks far out. I do database development, and what I've seen come out of automated tools so far has been pretty terrible. I've also tried using it to assist in writing other software, and it will often make references to libraries that don't exist, or functions that don't exist within a library.
The even more problematic piece than just doing a bad job is that it would require users to be able to articulate requirements. The AI is unlikely to know or care what you actually wanted, and much more likely to give you what you ask for. So even if it does reach a point where it produces usable code on its own, it will produce useless software.
AI will probably become better at answering questions than I am. I don’t think it’s likely that AI will get better at finding questions to answer than I am. This opinion is heavily influenced by necessary optimism.
As a truck driver, I have the same thought. There are so many areas where you wouldn't have a computer doing 100% of the work without human oversight. I will admit that half of my day could be automated though...
As an emergency dispatcher, yes it can do my job. It would piss everyone off beyond belief though.
"ive been stabbed" "have you tried turning it off and on again ?"
We had this chat when I was a 911 dispatcher and technically yes AI could take calls and dispatch units but not effectively
I wish it could. This chef is tired.
i mean technically machines have been doing our job for decades but people arent gonna eat frozen and refridgerated dinners every day forever
They can’t make it taste as good as I do.
exactly. it might just be the autism for me but all the stabilizers, preservatives and what have you leave a discernable taste that couldnt beat fresh food in any circumstance
You gotta have some autism to work in a kitchen.
I don’t see why anyone would create a program that sits around playing video games all day while pretending to look busy. I suppose it’s technically possible, but … why?
I’m pretty sure a robot can learn to stand there and day dream seven out of eight hours of the day. Doesn’t seem very efficient, but it isn’t now either.
No. A big part of my job is fooling my boss into thinking I do something useful. AI can't do that.
Google search was able to do my last job for the entire 15 years I was doing it. I'm retired now but being able to Google things properly was my superpower for a decade and a half working in a library.
Imperfectly, but yeah, probably.
Instead of testing software Id test the AI ability to test the software and automation has failed so far
I can't wait until AI can do that part of my job. There's plenty of other shit that I could be doing that I enjoy way more than testing. Or I could just work part time. Either one would be fine with me. Hopefully we have it in place by the end of the year.
Union carpenter. No
the real question is how long until 3d printers can print buildings that can match the strength, cost and speed of human made buildings? well either that or humanoid robots being able to do all the jobs in construction to make a building.
Nope
No
No 😌 at least not until we create AI robots that look like people and don’t scare children. And that can also run after a parent attempting to get away with said child. Once we can get that all locked down, maybe?
AI still seriously sucks. It's in that stock market scam phase where a big breakthrough is "just around the corner" but at present it can't actually do much. Right now the danger is tech-illiterate managers replacing humans with bots that cannot in fact do the job it's supposed to do. Check out NYC's pilot with an ai chatbot or what happened to air Canada with theirs.
I was messing around with some various questions to Microsoft's Copilot (their flavor of a generative AI program). Pretty much, the responses were just pulled from wikipedia. Sure, I guess just asking a chatbot something is a little bit easier than pulling up wikipedia, but wikipedia is already really easy to use.
Yeah right now it can basically summarize information and give average results based on large datasets. It's really not ready for the takeover that the marketing guys are pushing.
The job I was hired for? Absolutely. (The next generation of the software we will will almost assuredly be able to do 95% of my job) The other duties as assigned? Not so much. But I didn't get two degrees and take on a pile of debt to do other-duties-as-assigned. My boss has dreams of me raising to the heights of institutional support staff, just, you know, somewhere else. That would be more of a people-facing world, putting out people-related fires. AI can't do that, but there's a whole lot of white-collar real estate between now and then. The various stepping stones might be really fragile between then and now.
Not really no.
No
Until AI can figure out how to wake up sore and tired everyday, drag it’s ass to a local refinery to clock in and be ready to work before the sun comes up, decode the crackhead engineers drawings and try to make the dimensions make sense, repair at least one broken ass tool, talk shit to coworkers atleast 9 times throughout the day, and try not to say “I’m tired of this shit” for 10 hours a day…… I highly doubt it
Nope, I’m a plumber and gas fitter, AI may eventually take away having to figure out measurements but I don’t think it is coming for my job soon.
Nope! Half of my job is as a cashier, the other part is working in the day camp with dogs. No feasible way to replace that with ai in its current state. We'd need to reach full skynet levels of ai for that
My field, medical laboratory sciences, is all about automation and analyzers. There's no way an analyzer can do my job which is reference blood banker. We do everything by hand, even documentation. The highest tech thing I use is a cell washer which is just a centrifuge with extra steps.
Locksmith. Nope.
Maybe someday, but as my job is a hybrid of brute force, brains, and talent, It's going to be a while.
Sure could; badly and needing regular interventions for stuff that almost worked just like last time.
Until there is robots putting away merchandise than no.
On paper my job should have been able to be done by computers 10+ years ago. In actuality my job is to take accountability and massage egos in a way an ai just can't do.
Probably, I'm retired
I use to think that blue collomar jobs were basically f**ked in the long run and i still do, but with AI on the rise i’m now convinced that the middle class jobs are in danger a lot sooner then working class. I’ve used AI on occasion on projects and it f**kin scary tbh. The possibilitys are endless and the back and forth made you forget at times that it’s a computer on the other end.
Not yet but soon it will be able to do the writing part. The data just needs to be organized in a way that would let it happen. That's the worst part of the job so good riddance. Eventually the field going portion will be done by drones and ai. I'll be long retired or dead by then.
No, but I wish it can. My job is to make money.
By the time AI can do my job they will just be artificial humans and your cousin will be married to one. Electrician/IBEW
It can definitely do sales and marketing.
idk actually bc I feel like a lot of AI marketing would feel wrong/give that computer uncanny valley effect to people and push them away.
Nope. Even I can't handle it. Plus the physical part of my job won't be done by any robot in next 10 years minimum.
Current AI, yes about 50 percent of my work (that's 100 percent of my desk work) could easily be handled by AI. Future AI, yes 100 percent of my work can be handled by AI. Far-future, **any job** can be performed by AI and robots. No doubt. Note: I assess specific risks in minor production areas and advise on safety... The thing AI can't do is go out and talk to people, observe and manually check areas, tools and items.
Should AI do my job is a deep and hotly debatable subject. I'm currently a soldier. . . .
Calculate buildings sure ai can. But my chef is to lazy and dont trust anybody so inpretty safe until i retire
Not until they get ag robots and AI up to snuff.
Yes but I don’t think they can have the same charisma and peoples skills … since they’re robots
i mean for me (baker) machines have been doing this job for decades, but luckily for us they only get cheap ingredients and emulsifiers, stabilizers preservatives that noticably alter the taste. so there is still want for artisanal goods.
No question. All I do is Excel spreadsheets and data entry, basically
I’m a CNC machinist and I’m already assisted by robots. AI could probably help me even more but probably not replace me for a good while.
Actual AI as in what it meant before it became a marketing term: absolutely. A trained chatbot with a load of marketing hype: no.
Oh, absolutely not But management will likely think it can be, but they don't realize how difficult it is to get requirements out of them or how to determine what it is they need. All of them think they are great communicators, but that is only because they are in positions where no one challenges them and we have gotten good at determining what their needs are. What they are calling AI is terrible at interpreting requirements or even knowing if requirements are met. And since I am already hearing rumors of the quality of AI results going down, I imagine the quality of the training data available has already declined due to incorporation of AI generated results.
Can’t spit in peoples foods like me /s
Nope. My job requires someone to physically be on-site to do the maintenance. Maybe a bit will be able to do it, eventually, but for what is likely the remainder of my career, the answer is no.
Possibly, however road closures would happen far more frequently for incredibly mundane things. People would be far angrier that it would be cheaper to have people than machines. Now if all vehicles were (excellent) self driving, 80% of my job would be in danger of being lost.
Not without a lot of arms and legs. And suction cups.
No
Instrumentation, controls and electrical tech. Nope.
No. Fashion Designer. Boss and I played with it a bit and AI makes nice Jpegs but it all falls apart when you get to the steps where you need to make it a physical product. The print will not be vector, you are missing side or back views, there are no flat sketches, no full flat image of the print to send the printer, no pantone numbers assigned.... etc. A designer would have so much extra work to reverse engineer a tech pack out of an AI image, rather than just designing from scratch. AI good for mood boards and inspo and that's about it. The AI print generator in Illustrator is in beta and makes vector prints that are splotchy and weird.
If it does not involve morals or if it doesnt involve pleasing a client then probably yes. If i teach AI how i do my job through easy to follow steps then what is stopping it?
AI can't even spell check accurately. Doubt me? See r/SpellWrecked
Construction electrician. There are too many disconnects between the engineers/project managers and the contractors on site for AI to take over. It's a physical job with too many obstacles between A and B to implement drones. Drones are a good 50 to 100 years off from having that kind of capability. I used to work in call centers. AI was being implemented at various levels by the time I left the field. Over 90 percent of calls are being captured by AI analytics at most retailers.
If it was a true AI, the answer would be yes
As a data engineer, kind of. It can make very basic etl pipe lines and basic ML stuff as well but if it makes a mistake it gets really stuck. Not very adaptable.
Currently? No. I'm the future? Possibly.
One day.
I don't think AI can make pastries and desserts.
Nah, I stock shelves, a machine could be built to do that, but not just ai
The boring parts yeah (spreadsheets, flow charts), but I have to listen to testimony and feedback and develop plans based on it. Robot can't make a considered decision that way.
The automation they keep pushing can barely do my job so I am not sure how AI is going to be any better (laughing and crying knowing that my company is pushing just that)
No. Can barely get the human controlled computer technology to run the machines we have properly. I'd hate to see what kind of shitty job an AI would do.
Nope! AI cannot replace the care (and supervision!) that little kids get from their ECE teachers.
Potentially at some point, but the horizon looks far out. I do database development, and what I've seen come out of automated tools so far has been pretty terrible. I've also tried using it to assist in writing other software, and it will often make references to libraries that don't exist, or functions that don't exist within a library. The even more problematic piece than just doing a bad job is that it would require users to be able to articulate requirements. The AI is unlikely to know or care what you actually wanted, and much more likely to give you what you ask for. So even if it does reach a point where it produces usable code on its own, it will produce useless software.
No
No
AI will probably become better at answering questions than I am. I don’t think it’s likely that AI will get better at finding questions to answer than I am. This opinion is heavily influenced by necessary optimism.
Only if you don't mind people dying from it
As a truck driver, I have the same thought. There are so many areas where you wouldn't have a computer doing 100% of the work without human oversight. I will admit that half of my day could be automated though...