AI is sinking jobs so fast

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not convinced but so far I’ve only used AI to revise a PowerPoint and to find information on the internet. When I call an 800 number I need to speak to someone and get frustrated with the AI bot.

In reality I think companies have figured out they can get rid of people and force existing employees to work harder or more, and they overhired during 2021-2023. Last this admin is creating uncertainty and companies are reluctant to hire.

This person is correct.

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It's not AI, it's Trump

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Anonymous wrote:Government regulations are NEVER the answer.

As Elon has said, as A.I. and robotics take over more jobs, new jobs will be created, and also UBI will be a thing.

Just try to get ahead of the curve and realize that many desk-jobs and white collar jobs will be taken first by A.I., leaving mostly labor jobs.

Very wrong (consider why you are able to drink your tap water- regulations!) but in this case AI is not the one taking the jobs so regulating it is not going to solve that problem.

You have the mindset of learned helplessness. It's probably a big part of any difficulty you have in your life.

Can you identify any incorrect points I made or are you only capable of unrelated ad hominem?

Why not work on yourself instead? Why so focused on others? That could also be part of the problem.

Another ad hominem- what does that have to do with AI?

Stay on topic then? You seem to be distracted easily. That's a sign of A.I. in of itself, as too much info at once creates conflicting points in the analysis of the data.

AI regulation is not going to keep companies from layoffs because AI is not causing the layoffs. Do you disagree?

Why would I? Companies decide to lay off workers due to advancing technology allowing more or equal work being done by tech rather than human labor. It's not the A.I.'s fault, no more than it's the automobile's fault that mule-skinners are mostly out of work now.

What work is AI doing?

Why doesn’t AI collect trash? Or wash my dishes.

I wish AI can submit my energy calculations for building permit. At best, AI / Excel will do the calculation but I still have to figure out what kind of light fixtures I'm going to use, what kind of light levels I want in the room (is it for surgery? romantic dinner?), space them in the room so it's somewhat evenly distributed and doesn't look offensive, enter the fixture's specs (because regulations keep shifting about what data is required in the submission). And then there are the numbers for all the heat/air conditioning appliances in the build and those keep shifting around because there isn't enough room to squeeze them in the ceilings and closets and every few months mitsubishi changes the specs and sizes....
one would think AI could take care of this.
Well, I'm glad excel will calculate but I still have to plug in the numbers after deciding which fixture is the least offensive to the eye.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not convinced but so far I’ve only used AI to revise a PowerPoint and to find information on the internet. When I call an 800 number I need to speak to someone and get frustrated with the AI bot.

In just the last 5 min I have found 2 A.I. posts on this site. (Not yours, saying other user's posts, but it's being used a lot.)

Did you pay for them? No. Were they better quality than a real person would have written? TBD. The real person who posted them saved their time by using AI. That makes them more productive at doing something uncompensated. Plus the AI that was used cost money to produce those free responses.

I think AI will be a tool like the Internet. Some jobs could go away but AI is more of a tool than a job replacer.

So you are the frequent copy and paste AI poster eh?

AI will be paired with robots (already is in some cases) to do more jobs than you can obviously imagine.

[Anonymous]

There’s always law enforcement.

[Anonymous]

AI can’t do my job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Government regulations are NEVER the answer.

As Elon has said, as A.I. and robotics take over more jobs, new jobs will be created, and also UBI will be a thing.

Just try to get ahead of the curve and realize that many desk-jobs and white collar jobs will be taken first by A.I., leaving mostly labor jobs.

UBI would be government regulation, hon.

Whatever AI may be in the future, it's not taking anyone's jobs now. Companies laying off "because AI" are lying.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not convinced but so far I’ve only used AI to revise a PowerPoint and to find information on the internet. When I call an 800 number I need to speak to someone and get frustrated with the AI bot.

In just the last 5 min I have found 2 A.I. posts on this site. (Not yours, saying other user's posts, but it's being used a lot.)

Did you pay for them? No. Were they better quality than a real person would have written? TBD. The real person who posted them saved their time by using AI. That makes them more productive at doing something uncompensated. Plus the AI that was used cost money to produce those free responses.

I think AI will be a tool like the Internet. Some jobs could go away but AI is more of a tool than a job replacer.

So you are the frequent copy and paste AI poster eh?

AI will be paired with robots (already is in some cases) to do more jobs than you can obviously imagine.

I occasionally do post AI and note it as such. I posted an AI summary of the book Moral Mazes in the Jobs and Careers section. I liked the book a lot but it's quite scholarly and I find that people rarely read books I recommend. So I wanted the OP to understand what the book author's main points were. The free AI summary cost some real resources somewhere but the OP and I were entertained for free. In this case, AI was superior because it's been a decade since I read the book. But this is not worth my paying for.

I also used AI in a college forum thread where someone asked what the Top 10 colleges talked about on the site were. This would be a laborious, time intensive task to do for real. Even with just a sample of posts. I quite clearly posted an AI summary based on a Google prompt. People didn't agree with the results. They were plausible results but unverifiable. That is also typical of a lot of AI. It has "surface validity". But can be badly wrong. And again, I wouldn't pay for AI to do this for me.

I am not a frequent copy paster. At home, I just have Google. At work, I have access to institutional CoPilot and internally-developed corporate AI. At times these tools just can't do the job.

I'm also aware of a bunch of processes that people would like AI to handle but AI can't. It so obviously can't that it's not worth starting the IT projects. I said that up-thread.

I particularly dislike AI summaries in the Travel section here. To me that's worthless. I'm looking for a needle in a haystack, rare find type of recommendation. Not a boring list of what's in a destination city.

[Anonymous]

AI sucks sweaty balls

-A human

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s always law enforcement.

A.I. will definitely take over most cops jobs. Cameras, drones, etc.

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This is TRUMP's economy. We went from a GOLDILOCKS economy under Biden to a NO GROWTH, NO JOBS economy. It's not AI. It's PISSING OFF THE WORLD (50% tariff on India/Brazil, threats against China..that's almost 50% of world's population YOU PISS OFF). With DOGE, DC area's job prospects have been decimated while PALANTIR that doesn't produce ANYTHING (No bullets, guns) only Databases (new powerpoint) rakes in the $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI sucks sweaty balls

-A human

Wait until you hear about the advancements in A.I. sex bots and dolls. It's crazy!

They are even making bots with human tissue wombs that they are trying to use to carry a test-tube baby to term.

Women will be made obsolete by A.I. and robotics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:AI sucks sweaty balls

-A human

Wait until you hear about the advancements in A.I. sex bots and dolls. It's crazy!

They are even making bots with human tissue wombs that they are trying to use to carry a test-tube baby to term.

Women will be made obsolete by A.I. and robotics.

It makes sense that this is where they are putting the AI effort, instead of curing cancer or poverty. Basically tracks along with human history.

I think we’re just starting to see the beginning of AI taking over entry level jobs. AI is close to being able to do what a not very good college intern does, so if it keeps improving it will soon be able to do what a standard 22 year old can do. But if we replace all the entry level folks with AI, we’ll never have the people trained to do the harder jobs. I think CS is seeing some of this, and it may start happening in things like labs which use low level people to do data analytics that AI will be able to do. And accounting I bet as well.

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Anonymous wrote:AI sucks sweaty balls

-A human

Wait until you hear about the advancements in A.I. sex bots and dolls. It's crazy!

They are even making bots with human tissue wombs that they are trying to use to carry a test-tube baby to term.

Women will be made obsolete by A.I. and robotics.

It makes sense that this is where they are putting the AI effort, instead of curing cancer or poverty. Basically tracks along with human history.

I think we’re just starting to see the beginning of AI taking over entry level jobs. AI is close to being able to do what a not very good college intern does, so if it keeps improving it will soon be able to do what a standard 22 year old can do. But if we replace all the entry level folks with AI, we’ll never have the people trained to do the harder jobs. I think CS is seeing some of this, and it may start happening in things like labs which use low level people to do data analytics that AI will be able to do. And accounting I bet as well.

Too much money in treating that, so they will never allow the public to know a cure/cures.

Poverty is a personal thing, not a disease that spreads or can be aquired. Meaningless term overall.

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Anonymous wrote:Government regulations are NEVER the answer.

As Elon has said, as A.I. and robotics take over more jobs, new jobs will be created, and also UBI will be a thing.

Just try to get ahead of the curve and realize that many desk-jobs and white collar jobs will be taken first by A.I., leaving mostly labor jobs.

UBI would be government regulation, hon.

Whatever AI may be in the future, it's not taking anyone's jobs now. Companies laying off "because AI" are lying.

DP, but no, it would be a corporation thing.