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AI is not a bubble! It will change society in the same way as Internet and social media. Many jobs and professions will be eliminated. Problem is that big tech

AI is not a bubble! It will change society in the same way as Internet and social media. Many jobs and professions will be eliminated. Problem is that big tech has no idea how to capitalize on AI! So far their biggest "idea" was how to censor it!

RobotToaster 2y ago
>It will change society in the same way as Internet and social media. >Many jobs and professions will be eliminated. What jobs and professions were eliminated by the internet and/or social media? I can think of jobs eliminated by computers (computer was originally a job title, after all), but none that were entirely eliminated by the internet.
- wsintra2022 2y ago
  Newspaper and magazine printing factories, local TV station employees, that’s all I got.
  - throw310822 2y ago
    Travel agencies. Video rentals. Bank offices.
- kkfx 2y ago
  That's what most people fails to understand: most real layoffs today are due to mere automation, people simply have mostly no more needs to go to a physical bank office, they use internet banking, the bank does not need the physical front office anymore, there is no AI in the game, but headlines say the opposite. AI is a bubble, something will remain, far resized, but the main issue here is that we are about to loose our software primacy because some big giants want an untenable model to keep their profit instead of keeping the desktop model with the user at the center, not the service at the center with "endpoints" scattered around. Unfortunately DUE to certain commercial practice most people do not know nor understand the power of IT so there is no real push against certain models.
- zarzavat 2y ago
  The internet wasn’t designed to take peoples jobs. It was designed to disseminate knowledge and connect people. AI is explicitly designed to replace workers. To make artificial people who don’t eat, drink, sleep, take breaks, go on strike, ask for a raise, take maternity leave, or disobey.
- HDThoreaun 2y ago
  journalist
peebeebee 2y ago
You do remember the dotcom bubble, right? :D Something can change the world, but still be a bubble. They are promising AGI, super intelligence or the singularity in less than 10 years. That's the bubble.

RobotToaster 2y ago

>It will change society in the same way as Internet and social media. >Many jobs and professions will be eliminated. What jobs and professions were eliminated by the internet and/or social media? I can think of jobs eliminated by computers (computer was originally a job title, after all), but none that were entirely eliminated by the internet.

wsintra2022 2y ago
Newspaper and magazine printing factories, local TV station employees, that’s all I got.
- throw310822 2y ago
  Travel agencies. Video rentals. Bank offices.
kkfx 2y ago
That's what most people fails to understand: most real layoffs today are due to mere automation, people simply have mostly no more needs to go to a physical bank office, they use internet banking, the bank does not need the physical front office anymore, there is no AI in the game, but headlines say the opposite. AI is a bubble, something will remain, far resized, but the main issue here is that we are about to loose our software primacy because some big giants want an untenable model to keep their profit instead of keeping the desktop model with the user at the center, not the service at the center with "endpoints" scattered around. Unfortunately DUE to certain commercial practice most people do not know nor understand the power of IT so there is no real push against certain models.
zarzavat 2y ago
The internet wasn’t designed to take peoples jobs. It was designed to disseminate knowledge and connect people. AI is explicitly designed to replace workers. To make artificial people who don’t eat, drink, sleep, take breaks, go on strike, ask for a raise, take maternity leave, or disobey.
HDThoreaun 2y ago
journalist

peebeebee 2y ago

You do remember the dotcom bubble, right? :D Something can change the world, but still be a bubble. They are promising AGI, super intelligence or the singularity in less than 10 years. That's the bubble.