These graduation speakers that show up to extol the wonders of AI are like the Groom on his wedding night, going on and on about how fuckable all the Bridesmaids were, and then being surprised that his new Bride is pissed off at him.
I like the analogy but it’s even worse. It’s like the grooms uncle taking the mic and saying how fuckable the bridesmaids are and about how he’s the world’s best lover… and then being surprised his wife is pissed.
Like, why are you using someone else’s wedding to talk up how important you are? It’s pathetic on vibe, regardless of the content. The content just takes it from bad to worse.
It already is making things dramatically worse
It’s a great time to be in the trades.
Unfortunately the trades aren’t going to weather this any better than the rest of us, if nobody can afford to hire them.
Am HVAC tech.
No one has money. I knew things were truly fucked before Christmas when I was talking to a guy, standing in his living room that is larger than my entire fucking house, and he was hemming and hawing about replacing his furnace blower motor that was actively leaking oil. I felt scummy having to point out that it is an actual fire hazard. He pushed the repair off to the new year so he could get some money together. Another guy had to call his sister to pay me for his dispatch fee, and then said he’d buy an inducer motor at Home Depot because my quote for the warranty repair was too high. I wish him the best of luck.
It has not gotten better. I fear for my job on a weekly basis. I had to switch to a new company due to moving states for my wife’s job, and I am having a hell of a time proving I can bring value when people are barely able to afford capacitors at discounted rates. I had one guy whose unit won’t even start just say they’ll just not have AC.
He’s cooked, I’m cooked, we’re all cooked.
The anti-ai wave is mostly a north american issue. people in china just see a new tool they have to learn. like most issues with americans, it has become binary. either ai will bring utopia or it will destroy us all.
everything goes back to republicans destroying education and americans defining their lives by social media
The problem with your argument is that the companies that people rely on are going to have to deal with a market where AI is taking up a lot of resources they rely on, which will cause problems for their customers outside of the US.
European and African and Asian companies don’t need chips? They don’t need Harddrives? They don’t need computer components? How are car manufacturers going to build and sell new cars or fix older cars without chips? How do engineers trained to use CAD and modeling software do that without computers? (Please note that I’m not talking about some 60 year old engineer who will do it with a draft board and a pencil and a slide rule, I’m talking about new engineers who learned these electronic tools expecting to have them always available and who now are facing an uncertain future for the tech their business relies on).
The point is, there are far reaching consequences for AI in tech that effect the entire world.
This is a different topic though. Sure its related but the students aren’t booing because of chip shortage. The hype will die down. Ai wont go anywhere but the crazy ramp up and "everyone need sot be in AI’ will die down.
It will. And hiding in a hole isn’t going to stop the world from moving on.
China will be fine, they know how to train people and create jobs with new tech. US and Western powers won’t.
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