The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
Are you afraid of losing your job to artificial intelligence (AI)? Also – what jobs in the very near future do you think will end because of AI?
Talk about it….
No, not really, since I’m basically the Domestic Engineer/Landscaper of our little Homestead. Some jobs aren’t suited for AI. But I am wonder how it’s going to affect Life down the road in the future in other ways.
….no …but wish AI would take Newsom’s, Bonta’s, and Becton’s job ASAP …. at least there would be some intelligence in those positions even if its artificial
Lol. Most of us are retired so we don’t care. But though out the years, I have seen technology wipe out jobs (mostly low skill jobs) because firms invest in R&D to semi auto or full automate the production.
With the current driverless car, the taxi drivers will be out of the jobs.
I saw a segment on nbc news; a john deer tractor pulls an equipment that powered by AI. The equipment can identify weeds among the plants and zap the weeds with laser. So there is a threat to farm labors.
Never mind the stinkin’ job! I’m worried about killer robots. The Terminator movies were not Hollywood sci-fi; they were warnings sent to us from the future by a nearly defeated human race.
One safe job will be working for the woke government. Because artificial intelligence will never beat genuine stupity.
It’s all a bunch of BS. Nope not worried, we’re retired not really old yet haha, but certainly know it’s all a dog and pony show.
Of the limited examples I have seen with AI, and not being tremendously tech savvy, it appears little more than data aggregation, drawing upon information as provided by whomever entered those data into whatever medium those are put into. Regardless, I hope to only be in the workforce a few more years, and not sure the nuances of my role can be programmed in. Hopefully, the powers that be won’t legislate a way for AI to monitor retirement funds for future requisition of capital. As far as jobs at risk from AI, screenwriters (nothing original from that arena), songwriters, illustrators, court reporters, but I am not familiar enough to see beyond these limited roles.
Retired,
Be the one who fixes the physical hardware Ai uses.
Spent last 25 years working replacing and upgrading automated process control systems hardware.
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Ai is only as good as those writing the code.
Worked with only one software engineer over past 25 years I would trust to write code to fly an airplane. Have worked with a couple software engineers I wouldn’t trust to automate a flush toilet.
Software operating cars that can’t identify a fire engine, . . . . ZERO TRUST.
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As for job replacement by automation, first to go will be fast food workers. Farm labor has been and still is being replaced by automation. Machines can already determine then pick strawberries and tomatoes 24/7 without humans.
When I started working, everything was done manually. When they started automating everything we thought jobs would be lost. But as it turned out, they had to teach us more and more and it took the same amount of people to keep it up and running, it could do a lot of things we couldn’t do, but it wouldn’t work without us. In the end, they just had to pay us a lot more money to sit and babysit the equipment so that when something went wrong, we were there.
The introduction of ChatGPT recently brought media visibility to AI, but I think this example fails to meet expectations, almost like providing a written interface to bad Wikipedia information. I asked it about what was the cause of homelessness in California and it gave one and only one solution that we did not build enough houses. It was not capable of discussing other issues like drugs, mass illegals taking units, feral life style, or limited water and electricity issues. In addition to its answer it linked to two university papers, one that was not really about homelessness and another that actually disagreed that it was lack of housing units. What a mess. Some say this fear of AI has attained cult status.
I’m somewhat surprised by the lack of caution people have about AI here. Even if you are retired, it will affect you as I believe it will affect society as we know it. If there is a large segment of the population that no longer works or can earn money, this will create widespread change. We have such conflict around governmental policies “giving” money to people through programs and yet we may have to do more of this as AI emerges.
Will our values have to change as a society if a large segment does not need to work? What will people do with this free time and not become destructive?
Even school kids are using AI to do work for them – it will fundamentally change how we (or at the very least younger generations) will value critical thinking and “work.” We have lost a lot of skilled workers and perhaps that is where the economy will go – people who can actually fix and create things as most of those businesses right now are struggling to hire people. Society and industry does shift with innovation but this is a very pervasive innovation. White collar jobs are definitely the most threatened by AI.
As of this moment, are jobs threatened? No. But, in the research I’ve done AI is improving exponentially. Prompts and learning are getting more sophisticated. Many, many tools are being created. Some need humans, some will not. It’s not just ChatGPT out there. Will humans still be needed in some capacity for awhile – I’m sure. You need to prompt AI as of now. But, this can whittle down how many people need to be employed. Also, some AI tools have been programmed with guardrails, others haven’t. This is disturbing to say the least. I worry about the identity concerns and pervasiveness of AI when linked to the internet.
Can AI improve humanity’s situation? Maybe. But, I think we need to come to a conclusion about what it does and why and that doesn’t seem likely right now with so many polarized issues. I think people will be surprised by the amount of change that will happen with AI if they are not regularly following what is going on with it.
We don’t let our hammers, screwdrivers and saws run our lives so why would we let a tool like AI run them? That AI is sentient is probably nothing more that a whim of the imagination. Is your pencil sentient?
Every. Single. Time. I get on my car and drive somewhere, I see lots of smart cars being driven by dumb drivers.
We had a question, not too long ago, I think, asking about what jobs we think will disappear in the future. I think trash collection jobs will be taken over by AI. Many stores, if not all, will be like this Chicago store (link below) and not only because it could deter theft but because fewer employees will be needed to run it. AI could not just make many jobs obsolete, but it can affect minimum wages; why pay someone $20+/hr when machine upkeep/running could cost less? (Next Water Cooler Question: How to you think AI will affect wages and hiring procedures?)
https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/walgreens-store-was-built-deter-theft
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Nope. I’m retired from working. I am fully vested in enjoying MY time.
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Hahahaha!
Artificial Intelligence creates more jobs, but also creates a huge gap for those seeking gainful employment. It also prevents the ability to think for oneself.