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How about the 2 million truck drivers that are about to get replaced by robots?

• laughfactory 10y ago
  They'll take up gaming. The gulf between being a truck driver and, say, a programmer is vast. Imagine losing your truck driving job and suddenly trying to figure what the hell else you're going to do to support your family. Yikes!
  • flukus 10y ago
    > The gulf between being a truck driver and, say, a programmer is vast It really isn't. AI might not be able to take over 100% of our jobs anytime soon, but if even half of the things we spend time on, things like understanding requirements. If an AI system can coax users/managers to provide better requirements, maybe even create tests for those requirements, then every programmer could be twice as productive. That means half as many of us are needed.
    • wallace_f 10y ago
      AI in the future will also write the majority of the kind of code that is written today