What are you guys doing to prepare for AI? Backup careers? Talking to kids?

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Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

"woke nonsense" isn't a major, but things that sometimes get accused of it are the least replicable by AI.

avoid anything that relies heavily on computers—finance, accounting, most hard sciences (unless it's applied), law school, engineering, architecture, human resources, etc.

oh, it goes without saying that any kind of computer science, coding, design, etc. is already cooked

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Get a solid basic education with critical thinking AKA stay away from worthless woke nonsense.

Take care of your body. Weight training and a cardio.

Whatever job you get live minimalist and invest every penny possible in s&p 500 index fund.

Probably add take a basic carpentry class, plumbing class, mechanic class and electrician class. And periodic updates to maintain some competence.

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Anonymous wrote:There’s no AI course in school. Best thing to tell your kids is to not rely on AI and develop critical thinking skills. Jobs with no critical thinking were bound to be cut. Take classes not just to get a high GPA but where you will actually learn something.

The courses are coming from what I’ve read

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Anonymous wrote:There’s no AI course in school. Best thing to tell your kids is to not rely on AI and develop critical thinking skills. Jobs with no critical thinking were bound to be cut. Take classes not just to get a high GPA but where you will actually learn something.

The courses are coming from what I’ve read

Courses in what?

It already writes its own software - there will be a few overseer jobs, dumdum stuff like the guy who stands at the self checkout machines… there aren’t going to b courses tho…

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Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

Imagine parents suddenly turning on a dime and after years of prepping their kids for law school now all of a sudden are desperate to get them into Tisch for interpretive dance, argubaly the most AI-proof of jobs.

My dancer daughter was assuming she would go to law school eventually when she gets tired of being a poor starving artist. Lol

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Anonymous wrote:Performing Arts. Live theater, dance, music have outlasted every technology revolution in human history.

Oh, music is screwed. Live theater and dance are probably pretty good tho. But how many people are going to be attending dance shows when they don't have jobs themselves, or, they're so sucked into whatever AI slop is being fed into the socials they no longer care about live events.

Imagine parents suddenly turning on a dime and after years of prepping their kids for law school now all of a sudden are desperate to get them into Tisch for interpretive dance, argubaly the most AI-proof of jobs.

My dancer daughter was assuming she would go to law school eventually when she gets tired of being a poor starving artist. Lol

And now she’s going to be the only one of her friends with a job!

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I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

Bookmark my response - Companies who fire a bunch of people and expect AI to replace them are delusional. The smart companies will keep investing in people - at best their employees will use AI as just another tool to be more productive.

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Anonymous wrote:I have yet to see an example of AI actually replacing a job. In my law practice we were asked to test out an AI research assistant and the results were complete garbage. I think in 2 years the shine will wane and in 5 years we’ll all agree that it was completely oversold.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indeed-glassdoor-layoffs-ai-job-search/

There’s no reason to hire a coder anymore… web design isn’t a job anymore… architects, HR types, the army of people who do billing for healthcare and payroll.

It’s getting better and doubling it’s ability every six months. Bookmark this thread - your firm will have 5 percent the staff it has today in 2 years.

Bookmark my response - Companies who fire a bunch of people and expect AI to replace them are delusional. The smart companies will keep investing in people - at best their employees will use AI as just another tool to be more productive.

Oh maybe it’s stupid but it’s coming! If it can do 80 percent as well for 2 percent of the cost and work 24hrs a day… you’re cooked!

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Good lord the sky is falling and AI is culling answers for something to sell the fearful

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My kids are all working on AI. As CS majors. AI, machine learning, data science, robotics.

We also have been buying farmlands and growing organic produce. I think we will be ok.

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I think if things are not planned very carefully (and I don’t think that will happen) we’re looking at class warfare and riots that rival the French revolution.

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Anonymous wrote:I have been telling my son for years that automation will get rid of many jobs, and for the past couple of years, we've been discussing AI. I don't know why AI will be good enough to never have human oversight/verification, but it certainly isn't good enough yet. I use it often and see mistakes, often.

Without purposeful policy planning by Congress and the President, we are in for a sh**show. And they are incapable of anything remotely competent. So I think we will see a huge chunk of the middle class disappear. The types of jobs that will remain will be things like medical professions. Of all sorts, from the licensed practical nurse to the brain surgeon. It will be a field that continues to grow. Things like EMS will still grow, while firefighting may not. And finally, anything that serves the upper class with a personal touch will grow/thrive. Like high-end sales.

There should be discussion about a universal basic income, but there never will be.

“…the types of jobs that will remain will be the medical professions. Of all sorts, from the licensed practical nurse to the brain surgeon.”

Nothing is safe.

Experimental surgical robot performs gallbladder procedure autonomously
By Kamal Choudhury
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July 9 (Reuters) - An experimental AI-guided robot can autonomously perform a delicate, complicated phase of a common gallbladder operation, marking a major step toward automated medical procedures, researchers said on Wednesday.
Existing surgical robots are remotely controlled by surgeons. The new system uses artificial intelligence to make independent decisions and adapts to unexpected complications during operations, said Axel Krieger of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who led the research.

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Nothing. AI is overhyped.