AI is here, and we are in trouble

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(02-21-2024, 10:31 AM)GMDino Wrote: According to this article more white collar jobs will be in jeopardy than anything else.

We could see a replay of the 80's where all the "middle men" and middle management got outed (for the sake of profits and to avoid job duplication...of course) and those same companies moved so much of their production overseas taking away the better paying blue collar jobs already.

My job, for example, could easily be done with a chatbot...except the bot would have zero idea about what to sell without a human entering all the information on a daily basis.

Frankly I've been looking for an AI solution to some of the more mundane, week-to-week duties I have.  that would free me to do more of the things only a human can do.

I can definitely see this. As a white-ish collar worker, about 95% of my administrative duties could easily be replaced with a machine. I've been able to automate much of my work just through custom Outlook signatures. Imagine if I had the know-how to write some simple if "x" then "y" code for the computer to do it for me. 

Thankfully, AI can't quite replace my skill-based duties. Although even on that front (language interpretation and translation) machines have made great strides in the past years. I've worked with computer-assisted translation software for the past 7-8 years, and it used to be laughably bad. Bad to the point that even if I ran something through an AI translator it would be just as much work to fix the translation as it would to just do the translation from scratch. Now AI is even able to (with enough prompting at least) even accurately translate judicial concepts from Brazil into state-specific equivalents from here in the US. 

Then again, if we ever make an AI that masters language to that level I'm of the opinion that will mean we've created AGI which will not have me worrying for my job but our species' very existence.