Potential 100 million jobs will be lost to AI according to senate report

[Anonymous]

Why work when the purpose of life is to enjoy it without being chained to do mundane stuff that most people are not efficient at doing or hate?

AI can produce food, shelter, and clothing needs of people, and we can go about enjoying our life free from random work assignments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a Bernie sponsored report. If you scroll through the jobs that will supposedly be lost, it includes several "blue collar" jobs (eg. truck drivers), waiters, teaching assistants. The solution is more government benefits (universal health care, 32 hour work week etc.).

Many of the current job losses and retrenchments are largely because companies overhired in the pandemic. The last 10 years with zero lower bound interest rate regime, which meant that any investment however risky was preferable to stashing it under the mattress. That's gone now, resulting in layoffs.

None of the current LLMs actually make any money. OpenAI is not promising any profits and the whole thing looks like a bubble (OpenAI invests in AMD, NVIDIA invests in OpenAI which buys their GPUs etc).

Yes, there will be some disruption at the margins, but society and the workplace will adjust. This report is all hysteria.

100%. And Sam Altman is a smarmy douche bag hype man.

I use way more than $20 a month of compute with ChatGPT. I also have a background in computer engineering. The idea that these LLMs are going AGI any time soon is a pipe dream.

[Anonymous]

Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why work when the purpose of life is to enjoy it without being chained to do mundane stuff that most people are not efficient at doing or hate?

AI can produce food, shelter, and clothing needs of people, and we can go about enjoying our life free from random work assignments.

lol how naive. Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Ackman, etc are not in this for the good of humanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

No that is not what AI is. AI will replace 95% of all white collar jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

No that is not what AI is. AI will replace 95% of all white collar jobs.

Hi Sam, how are you? Will you also be asking ChatGPT how to be profitable once it his AGI?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

This is so wrong. That is not what AI is doing.

[Anonymous]

Def in an AI bubble right now. Bigger than the housing or banking or dotcom bubbles. Fall out will be enormous. No preventing it at this point.

Jobs- idk. But w/o jobs, people won’t “enjoy” life. Purpose less life is not enjoyable. People will get depressed. Maybe they will want therapists in real life. So maybe that’s a safe job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

This is so wrong. That is not what AI is doing.

Really? AI is replacing interns and entry level jobs outside the tech sector.

[Anonymous]

I don’t understand the panic. The printing press was invented and we evolved. Electricity was invented and we evolved. Automobiles were invented and we evolved. The assembly line was invented and we evolved. Airplanes were invented and we evolved. Computers were invented and we evolved.

I’m sure there were plenty of jobs made redundant by each of those events. You are beginning to sound like crazy Qanon conspiracy theorists.

[Anonymous]

Will AI eventually reshape how humans live their lives in highly developed countries? Sure.

Is AI still riddled with so many errors and unexpected hallucinatory complexities that it will be completely unreliable for many tasks for the length of my lifetime? Absolutely.

Does AI use up so many resources that it is incompatible with taking over the breadth of human needs for the foreseeable future? Yep.

Is someone(s) here really, really, really trying to hype up AI without actual reason? Heck yeah, but I don't know why. I especially don't know why WE ARE NOT PREPARED! WE HAVE TO GET PREPARED! -- coming without any notion of how to do that -- is supposed to be useful. I suspect it's someone who doesn't really have much of substance to give to the world, has latched onto a hype article or two, and now has made it their personal identity. Couple that with a chip on the shoulder about people who succeeded in the arena where he could not, and you've got it about right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now AI is only replacing the weird guy who can make amazing Excell spreadsheets or engaging presentations. Now all the good looking people can just tell AI to do it while they get back to climbing the corporate ladder.

This is so wrong. That is not what AI is doing.

Really? AI is replacing interns and entry level jobs outside the tech sector.

It's obvious you've never used AI tools to do anything productive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You know who isn’t worried?

Plumbers
Electricians
Carpenters
Nurses
Doctors
Dentists
Police officers
Landscapers
Construction workers
Teachers
Physical therapists
EMTs
Surgeons

Says who? All the doctors in my family, most of whom are surgeons, are very concerned about the rise in AI being used to diagnose patients, for instance. Entire teams of specialists can be rendered redundant as AI gets better at analyzing disparate symptoms to identify the body systems affected and likely underlying causes that can take human doctors years to diagnose. The encroachment on the medical field is already significant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You know who isn’t worried?

Plumbers
Electricians
Carpenters
Nurses
Doctors
Dentists
Police officers
Landscapers
Construction workers
Teachers
Physical therapists
EMTs
Surgeons

Says who? All the doctors in my family, most of whom are surgeons, are very concerned about the rise in AI being used to diagnose patients, for instance. Entire teams of specialists can be rendered redundant as AI gets better at analyzing disparate symptoms to identify the body systems affected and likely underlying causes that can take human doctors years to diagnose. The encroachment on the medical field is already significant.

I consult chatGPT for most maladies first. When's the last time a doctor gave you scientific references?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the panic. The printing press was invented and we evolved. Electricity was invented and we evolved. Automobiles were invented and we evolved. The assembly line was invented and we evolved. Airplanes were invented and we evolved. Computers were invented and we evolved.

I’m sure there were plenty of jobs made redundant by each of those events. You are beginning to sound like crazy Qanon conspiracy theorists.

We also invented guns and shot each other.