You’re assuming AI will successfully replace enough jobs to have a social impact. You’re buying into the hype. I can’t think of a single job it can replace.
Me either and I don’t think it ever will reach that. We’re already seeing diminishing returns.
The thing is it doesn’t need to replace a full job. If it improves productivity by 10% then that’s the number that will either lose their job or just not get hired in the first place.
I’m sure these are very worrying times for folks in college, especially computer science and the arts.
My insurance provider has already replaced all of its customer service staff with AI. As I found out when I tried to ask them a question the other day. I’m changing insurance companies.
If you’re talking about the automated phone thing, they’ve been trying to do that since the 90s. In the past the secret “get me a human” trick was to keep mashing zero till you got a human. Today, you can just keep saying “human” or “I need to speak to a human”.
It’s going fully replace a LOT of jobs, and as future iterations learn more and more, it will replace even more complex jobs. You are underestimating the Ferengi’s compulsion for more wealth. They will let quality slip significantly, if it means higher profits.
In a few years, they be gaslighting us that double digit unemployment is perfectly normal in a healthy, high-tech society.
You’re assuming AI will successfully replace enough jobs to have a social impact. You’re buying into the hype. I can’t think of a single job it can replace.
Me either and I don’t think it ever will reach that. We’re already seeing diminishing returns.
The thing is it doesn’t need to replace a full job. If it improves productivity by 10% then that’s the number that will either lose their job or just not get hired in the first place.
I’m sure these are very worrying times for folks in college, especially computer science and the arts.
UBI seems like the only long term solution to me.
My insurance provider has already replaced all of its customer service staff with AI. As I found out when I tried to ask them a question the other day. I’m changing insurance companies.
If you’re talking about the automated phone thing, they’ve been trying to do that since the 90s. In the past the secret “get me a human” trick was to keep mashing zero till you got a human. Today, you can just keep saying “human” or “I need to speak to a human”.
It’s going fully replace a LOT of jobs, and as future iterations learn more and more, it will replace even more complex jobs. You are underestimating the Ferengi’s compulsion for more wealth. They will let quality slip significantly, if it means higher profits.
In a few years, they be gaslighting us that double digit unemployment is perfectly normal in a healthy, high-tech society.