But AI is developing so fast. Many things it cannot do today and you don't imagine it to be able to do so soon will suddenly be able to do in about one year.
Jobs being lost to AI. Good thing or bad?
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Got a pizza from an ATM machine type box the other day. Wasnt burnt like my local dominos.
I love going to timmys and using that touch screen thing (mcdonalds too). They still get my order wrong but only half as much. Weve had coffee machines since the 70s. They should fully automate Timmys and then my order will always be correct.
Im all for AI taking over these jobs.
I will still go to the small mom and pop coffee shops where you can actually have a chat with the owners/staff - but the big franchises where they wont talk to you - might as well be automated so they can get the order right.
I think the key to not losing your job to AI is to be in a very customer centric industry - but it is getting harder to find them.
Theres an old saying (from the 80s I believe) that the factory of the future will be run by one man and a dog. The dog will be there to stop the man from touching the machine - the man will be there to feed the dog!
I love going to timmys and using that touch screen thing (mcdonalds too). They still get my order wrong but only half as much. Weve had coffee machines since the 70s. They should fully automate Timmys and then my order will always be correct.
Im all for AI taking over these jobs.
I will still go to the small mom and pop coffee shops where you can actually have a chat with the owners/staff - but the big franchises where they wont talk to you - might as well be automated so they can get the order right.
I think the key to not losing your job to AI is to be in a very customer centric industry - but it is getting harder to find them.
Theres an old saying (from the 80s I believe) that the factory of the future will be run by one man and a dog. The dog will be there to stop the man from touching the machine - the man will be there to feed the dog!
I have to say, Dominos just can't seem to get it right. I order online and if I say "regular bake" ir comes out burnt. If I say "light bake" it doughy and the cheese is hardly melted. I can't imagine what a pizza would look like if I clicked the "well done" option.
AI will replace more white collar worker actually.
I disagree. What is Creativity? It is basically using past experience (what works/what doesn’t) to solve a current problem. The problem is that a person only has a limited amount of past experiences to draw from. One person’s creative solution may be ineffective or borderline moronic compared to a best in class solution. Fully trained AI does not have that limitation. People who think they are irreplaceable by AI are truly legends in their own mind. AI is moving really fast. Example is my Tesla where 2 years ago FSD was a piece of shit. Today, I use it everyday for 90% of my drive. Each update sees the car make better decisions and I expect unsupervised FSD to be a real thing in the next 5-10 years.
AI and automation in general is a bit of a mixed bag.
Been using AI a bit at work and yes its great but it does make mistakes and ultimately a person is responsible. Also the mistakes it makes can be hard to spot.
I can see a big hit to white collar jobs so, interesting times ahead.
Been using AI a bit at work and yes its great but it does make mistakes and ultimately a person is responsible. Also the mistakes it makes can be hard to spot.
I can see a big hit to white collar jobs so, interesting times ahead.
It doesn't really matter if it's good or bad. The fact is, it's here. If you regulate it in the West, you can be damn sure China will make use of it to gain a competitive advantage, working cheaper, faster and with less mistakes once dialed in. We have to adapt as a society rather than push back.
Even before AI, we were trending towards a situation where a UBI of some sort was necessary, brought on by a mixture of tech improvements and global trade. I'm personally against a merit-less UBI, because I believe it leads to many societal problems, but ultimately I think we're going to need something.
I consider my job relatively safe from AI. It's niche enough that it has already avoided automation, but it's still of a hands-on and real world problem-solving nature, which at least is resistant to AI. But you never know. As recently as a couple years ago, I never thought AI would be able to replace writers, artists, and other creative pursuits, but I believe I was wrong about that now. But right now, I'd be very nervous if I were a bookkeeper, accountant, or even a lawyer. AI is set to be VERY disruptive.
Ultimately, AI has the power to drastically improve humanity's standard of living. But it also has the potential to be significantly abused. As with any major tech disruption, there will be winners and losers.
Even before AI, we were trending towards a situation where a UBI of some sort was necessary, brought on by a mixture of tech improvements and global trade. I'm personally against a merit-less UBI, because I believe it leads to many societal problems, but ultimately I think we're going to need something.
I consider my job relatively safe from AI. It's niche enough that it has already avoided automation, but it's still of a hands-on and real world problem-solving nature, which at least is resistant to AI. But you never know. As recently as a couple years ago, I never thought AI would be able to replace writers, artists, and other creative pursuits, but I believe I was wrong about that now. But right now, I'd be very nervous if I were a bookkeeper, accountant, or even a lawyer. AI is set to be VERY disruptive.
Ultimately, AI has the power to drastically improve humanity's standard of living. But it also has the potential to be significantly abused. As with any major tech disruption, there will be winners and losers.
That is true. That is why AI will be used extensively in medicine in future years because it will be able to research much faster then a doctor as to what treatment guidelines should be followed, or will be able to diagnose different possibility of disease much faster.
It will also be used a lot in the juridic system as what can be faster to find jurisprudence then an AI bot tool?
I do not see AI replacing the practice of a doctor but I see it to enable doctors to see much more patients.
AI is going to solve a whole bunch of problems, and create a new set of problems. Such is life.
It is hard to tell the economics of AI. Very few companies are generating profits from AI. The only companies reliably turning a profit are the hardware companies selling hardware. In a gold rush the ones who reliably make money are those selling pickaxes and shovels.
Even the phase AI is hype, the actual term is Machine Learning, the intelligence part is not realized yet and likely will never be realized.
I think people will eventually get tired of AI this and AI that, the term AI will be strongly associated with irrational exuberance and people will start to use Machine Learning instead.
I do not think it is all hype, there are great applications for Machine Learning and we will find more and more great applications for Machine Learning. The exponential growth phase is close to over, now it is an incremental grind which is normal for any kind of useful technology.
Even the phase AI is hype, the actual term is Machine Learning, the intelligence part is not realized yet and likely will never be realized.
I think people will eventually get tired of AI this and AI that, the term AI will be strongly associated with irrational exuberance and people will start to use Machine Learning instead.
I do not think it is all hype, there are great applications for Machine Learning and we will find more and more great applications for Machine Learning. The exponential growth phase is close to over, now it is an incremental grind which is normal for any kind of useful technology.
