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I find it depressingly ironic that the jobs AI will destroy first were the exact jobs that for years we were told wouldn't be affected by ai. Creative jobs, hig

I find it depressingly ironic that the jobs AI will destroy first were the exact jobs that for years we were told wouldn't be affected by ai. Creative jobs, high paid white collar work (lawyers, accountants, and soon programmers) and the like are the most exposed. Whereas the difficult blue collar and menial jobs are the ones that are most protected simply because robotics and mobile power solutions are still too junior to replace fleshy meatsacks. What are we going to do when 70% of a work forde gets made redundant and the remaining 30% becomes a thousand times more productive? It already happened with graphic artists in China. The future is not bright.

yunwal 3y ago
I'm personally looking forward to the day when every ambitious person isn't shepherded into a desk job. There's so much work out there that requires smart people and somehow we've convinced everyone with a college education that smart people belong at computers all day.
- pixl97 3y ago
  There is a lot of work out there, the problem is will it put food on your table?
shrimp_emoji 3y ago
> simply because robotics and mobile power solutions are still too junior to replace fleshy meatsacks No, it's more perversely ironic than that. It's that the stuff we find "easy" and "boring" (like driving, walking around, picking up a cup and setting it back down) is just stuff eons of evolution has hardcoded into most of the neural network that compromises our brain. The "hard" stuff we pride ourselves on is just the stuff we've begun to be able to do thanks to the smallest and newest addition to our brain, the neocortex. But the reason we think it's hard is because we suck at it, which is because it's an evolutionary novelty. Our computers' evolution is inverted. The "easy", "boring" stuff we hoped robots would do for us, like collecting garbage, is the last thing they'll be able to do and perhaps the only thing left for us to do. :D

yunwal 3y ago

I'm personally looking forward to the day when every ambitious person isn't shepherded into a desk job. There's so much work out there that requires smart people and somehow we've convinced everyone with a college education that smart people belong at computers all day.

pixl97 3y ago
There is a lot of work out there, the problem is will it put food on your table?

shrimp_emoji 3y ago

> simply because robotics and mobile power solutions are still too junior to replace fleshy meatsacks No, it's more perversely ironic than that. It's that the stuff we find "easy" and "boring" (like driving, walking around, picking up a cup and setting it back down) is just stuff eons of evolution has hardcoded into most of the neural network that compromises our brain. The "hard" stuff we pride ourselves on is just the stuff we've begun to be able to do thanks to the smallest and newest addition to our brain, the neocortex. But the reason we think it's hard is because we suck at it, which is because it's an evolutionary novelty. Our computers' evolution is inverted. The "easy", "boring" stuff we hoped robots would do for us, like collecting garbage, is the last thing they'll be able to do and perhaps the only thing left for us to do. :D