So Sam, tell me about this wonderful post-AI world we’ll inhabit. Who will even call customer service … no one will have money to buy anything if all the people are replaced by AI. Will it look like the dystopian movies that picture the masses milling around aimlessly, waiting to die?
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Just the blurb saying that AI could diagnose better than doctors was enough to deter me from reading the article. If I’ve got a pain in my side or in my chest, you can darn well believe I’m going to believe the doctor who can see and touch me and run tests on me. AI diagnosing me instead? I’d laugh, but it’s too infuriating that anyone is even spouting this off.
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OR… Maybe the “creative” arts will start to be better compensated? Most of the Trade skills are (plumbing, carpentry, electrical, etc.). But perhaps theatre, music, and other arts will take the place of what will be accomplished with A.I.?
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Maybe, but maybe not. I know that some of the entertainment unions were opposed to AI being used for extras (rather than real human beings) when they were doing negotiations. I’ve seen AI create artwork that looked very attractive (and for people who are looking for a piece of art related to the colors of their interior decorating…this makes it even easier). I did not watch it, but I saw a headline the other week about a short film that was done entirely in AI. I believe the same is happening with music compositions.
So anyone who’s interested in a live creative art (dance, theater, live music) might be okay, but anyone who does recorded work? I’d be nervous, particularly since if most jobs go by the wayside, who will be around to pay the creative artists more money? I suspect the size of the pool who could afford artists’ current rates would decrease if AI becomes extremely widespread.
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I’m not surprised. If AI can’t summarize a simple research paper without misinterpreting or making up the findings…
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We got some AI minutes yesterday, which ID’d current president as Obama.
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I received this on LinkedIn.
Job cuts used to be bad news. Now, they’re a brag. Some CEOs are openly touting their shrinking workforces as a sign of strength – proof that they’re serious about embracing AI and becoming leaner. Our latest look at this striking shift: CEOs Are Shrinking Their Workforces—and They Couldn’t Be Prouder - WSJ
I tried to copy the gift link but for some reason CC did not like it. I’m also unable to provide a WSJ article on how AI is killing the job market for new grads.
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The CEO of one of my clients – an industrial company – wants everyone in the company to be heavy users of AI. He thinks that will advantage them relative to competitors to be AI-intensive early.
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@snowball2, here is a change that is not a prediction that is actually happening. Google has gotten rid of over 1/3 of team managers. I supect that these cuts are a pretty direct consequence of reengineering the work using AI, but if there are any Googlers on the site, they will have more nuanced judgment.
I’ll ask my DIL since she works for Google.
I asked my Google son if he saw any of this coming and they had a huge meeting this week, it seems his division or branch or whatever it’s called was not touched. He did say, they really have no idea when they could be hit - he is not a manager though and glad for it. He aiming to be a technical lead but not sure if they too are going to get laid off.
Another article with interesting evidence:
One of my kids works for Google Cloud in AI. So far he is ok…….
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@jym626, probably the best place to be at the moment. They need to develop the AI tools for their customers.
The good news is that the sharper dropoff in hiring is among the 17% of the firms that have been hiring ‘hired “generative-AIintegrators”, whose jobs are to embed the technology into daily operations’. The bad news is that the other 83% of the firms will probably catch on.
Folks immersed in the tech typically overestimate the speed of adoption but also typically underestimate the eventual scope of penetration.
As many have noted, new jobs will also be created. We hire a specialist firm doing open source intelligence and they have augmented the value of what we get from them tremendously with AI. I’m sure that they are hiring into their teams, but probably not junior people.
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https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3152813/amazon-amzn-eyes-major-job-cuts-through-expanded-automation
Amazon (AMZN) Eyes Major Job Cuts Through Expanded Automation
I wonder if anyone is doing research to determine at what point there will no longer be enough people with the means to patronize businesses anymore? Or do they just figure that they will be dead by the time the real pain kicks in, so who cares? But I think they underestimate the speed of the freight train barreling towards economic ruin.
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I also wonder how companies think they will get experienced workers as they cut as many junior workers as possible. The lack of future thinking is baffling.
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They also cut SR workers so it makes you wonder what they think will happen to institutional knowledge of the organization.
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