1st person I know who is losing his job due to AI

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So what happens when the companies fire us all and then no one can afford the products and services they are selling?

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Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much cheaper job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

FIFY

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Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

No. Not safe at all.

For example, there might be almost no radiologists at all in 5 years. Differential diagnosis will be done by AI, as will treatment plans. Doctors won't actually be needed for much of anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

We will be living in a totally different world -- in many ways -- within a year or two because of this. People don't understand how fast this will evolve.

[Anonymous]

Lobbyists. We will always need lobbyists and you can’t automate my job or accomplish it with AI. We are like roaches. When the nuclear bomb goes off in the job market it will be us and a bunch of AI robots with jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:So what happens when the companies fire us all and then no one can afford the products and services they are selling?

This is why I’m not super worried about the population decline projected. I don’t think population will decline fast enough to keep up with the labor market decline. Although I guess we’ll invent other dumb sh8t to do. I mean, hundreds of years ago they were worried about machines replacing people that hand knit stockings or scribed books. But then we invested investment banks and finance bros and influencers etc etc so people could have jobs producing nothing. Vonnegut would probably say our big brains will work on coming up with more ways to ruin the planet and make ourselves miserable so we will always be quite busy with that.

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Anonymous wrote:For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

I am glad I studied pure mathematics because it thought me how to solve hard problems. I am an electrical engineer and when I tell people my background and that I never took a single course in circuits or electronics they are shocked. Sadly though corporations today want workers who are ready from day 0. I don't think a young grad who studied pure math will be hired because he doesn't have the "practical" skills to be used from day 1.

Such a shame that we think of college right now as job training and try to find “ROI” or first job salary as what you need to focus on.

Math, physics - these are the things we should want our young people to be trained in. It’s hard. And maybe not as practical. But the fundamentals don’t change over their lifetime. These kids have the basics to learn pretty much anything technical.

I'm so, so, so relieved my DD studied physics and math in college. Unlike her classmates who graduated with degrees in CS, she could not find a job right out of college, so she got a master's degree in electrical engineering and now has a great job and a great career ahead of her. I think all those kids who studied CS in college and got highly paid jobs right away going to lose their jobs when AI replaces them. But DD will do just fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Lobbyists. We will always need lobbyists and you can’t automate my job or accomplish it with AI. We are like roaches. When the nuclear bomb goes off in the job market it will be us and a bunch of AI robots with jobs.

Yep. And the K street walkers.

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Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

No. Not safe at all.

For example, there might be almost no radiologists at all in 5 years. Differential diagnosis will be done by AI, as will treatment plans. Doctors won't actually be needed for much of anything.

I think there’s still more runway for jobs in medicine/nursing that deal with the actual physical handling of patients. The people at the hospital who do the intubating, the bathing, the ones who stick the needles in. Doctors of physical therapy.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

No. Not safe at all.

For example, there might be almost no radiologists at all in 5 years. Differential diagnosis will be done by AI, as will treatment plans. Doctors won't actually be needed for much of anything.

I think there’s still more runway for jobs in medicine/nursing that deal with the actual physical handling of patients. The people at the hospital who do the intubating, the bathing, the ones who stick the needles in. Doctors of physical therapy.

Yeah, I actually know quite a bit about AI in healthcare. There will still be doctors, even radiologists. But it will probably mean the good ones work more efficiently and expand their reach, increasing quality, and perhaps fewer roles that impact the lower performing/lower ability.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

No. Not safe at all.

For example, there might be almost no radiologists at all in 5 years. Differential diagnosis will be done by AI, as will treatment plans. Doctors won't actually be needed for much of anything.

I think there’s still more runway for jobs in medicine/nursing that deal with the actual physical handling of patients. The people at the hospital who do the intubating, the bathing, the ones who stick the needles in. Doctors of physical therapy.

Yeah, I actually know quite a bit about AI in healthcare. There will still be doctors, even radiologists. But it will probably mean the good ones work more efficiently and expand their reach, increasing quality, and perhaps fewer roles that impact the lower performing/lower ability.

Is there a massive shortage of doctors anyway?

[Anonymous]

We laid off half the operation engineers at our big tech company and replaced them with chatbot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

It is what it is.

People been warning you for years, but everyone here is like "Nawww never happen!"

Machines replaced many a farmer and factory worker. It will be ok.

[Anonymous]

Guarantee you a large part of his role was as a data analyst.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My friend who works for Walmart in Arkansas told me his leaving his job this August primarily due to AI. He said his current functions will be taken 100% by AI.

He sent me a copy of his resume and if every person he is going to be competing with is as qualified as him we are all f***d.

I think we are entering a new scary era. Of course if you are doctor, nurse, teacher you are safe. Everyone else God help us. My friend told me his team was training their AI system for months and it's so good that he is stunned!

No. Not safe at all.

For example, there might be almost no radiologists at all in 5 years. Differential diagnosis will be done by AI, as will treatment plans. Doctors won't actually be needed for much of anything.

Ok. So what is going to happen if no one is able to get a job?