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

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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.

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?

[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.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

[Anonymous]

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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 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.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

NP. What a dumb article, likely written by AI. Does not make any actual connection between the AI bots and the losses. Just two disparate facts.

[Anonymous]

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.

Lobbyists can go straight to hell.

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AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.

You can choose not to use them. Resist

[Anonymous]

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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 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.

Skynet in its infancy. Life imitating art.

[Anonymous]

Universal basic income. Now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

There’s a lot of cope here. Ofc they can make decisions.

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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?

Dickens vividly portrayed what happens.
Our current admin and tech bros couldn’t care less what happens to us. Just look at their big beautiful bill.🤷‍♂️

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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.

Last time I checked all EEs have to take a fundamental "circuits" course. You don't build anything. It's mostly theoretical. If you know about Norton and Thevenin equivalents, you had this course.