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There's no question that AI will take jobs in the coming years. It might not be today, or tomorrow, but it'll happen gradually over time. People who waive it of
by lemoncookiechip 4y ago
There's no question that AI will take jobs in the coming years. It might not be today, or tomorrow, but it'll happen gradually over time. People who waive it off as "GPT isn't even that good," fail to realize that it's not up to them as workers to decide if the AI is better than them, or even competent for that matter, it's the employer's decision.
Corporations will not care if GPT's output is sub-optimal compared to humans, if the output is just decent enough to the point it can be improved by a small focused team of humans, and done faster at a fraction of the cost.
Hypothetically: If I can hire 2 people alongside AI to do the same work it would take 10 people, or even 3 people, and have it finished in a fraction of the time it would normally take, why would I hire/keep them, ethics? moral values?
Corporations primary objective is profit and growth. And while some companies pride themselves on how well they treat employees, or being sustainable, most aren't like that, especially in countries like America.
In the future, we'll see it spread more and more to other job sectors: education, health, finances, retail, marketing... it won't just stay confined to tech and content creation, and it'll only be limited by it's inability to interact with the physical world directly (manual labor,) at least while robotics is in its infancy.
I by no means am saying that everyone will lose their jobs, and especially not tomorrow. But there will be a gradual change to both our work life, and our personal (content we consume, how we interact with others, the internet, everything...) over the next few decades.
- _glass 4y agoThis. And just to add, I remember the time when there was a decision between handmade stuff, and the worse quality industrial produced things. You could really feel the difference. An artisan would complain about the quality of the product, he would shred the workmanship and demand better attention to detail. But those decisions are made on the margins, how low can we go in quality to maximize profit.
- subpixel 4y agoThe story of Etsy. You can still sell $1000 custom pieces of elaborate handmade art, but _most do not_ and that is not what moves the needle for the marketplace so the system is setup to enable volume sales of items that are in no way handmade.
- flippinburgers 4y agoIt seems to me that education as well as jobs that require writing skills - marketing etc - are just about to be blown away by things like GPT4. I want to believe that the heat on the programming profession is still ten years out so that I can continue to feed myself with my current skillset, but honestly ... who knows?