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You assume desk jobs still exist in 10 years?
by megamix 1y ago
You assume desk jobs still exist in 10 years?
- guappa 1y agoThey will. The AI fad however…
- IshKebab 1y agoCome on, anyone with half a brain cell can see that AI isn't going anywhere. Sure the excitement might die down but we're not going back to pre-AI. This is like those people that thought smartphones were a fad.
- guappa 1y agoAnyone with ⅑ of a brain has already realised AI isn't going to replace anyone other than people who have the word "AI" under their name on linkedin or ycombinator.
- IshKebab 1y agoAI has already replaced people. Just not very many... yet. I found this in a few seconds of searching: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ai-replacing-artists-heres-proof-103728053.html https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ai-replacing-artists-heres-p... Anyway that's off topic. It doesn't need to completely replace people to not be a fad.
- Tade0 1y agoWe can't un-invent LLMs, but it's less about excitement and more about practical use cases - there are fewer of them than commonly believed.
- JKCalhoun 1y agoI think you've arrived at the nuanced answer: AI absolutely has changed things, but probably not in the all-encompassing way that various proponents or corporate marketeers would have us believe.
- squigz 1y agoDidn't we hear something similar about computers?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoYou're right — on both sides. The people that said computers would automate everything were overstating them. At the same time, c'est la vie travel agents. Some jobs truly are gone. I feel like there's a modern dark-comedy film in there where a guy in the 90's gets a journalism degree only to find the industry collapsing with the internet — so he trains to switch careers to taxi driver....