I don’t think AI can do my job, any more than I think the internet can do my job or that google search can do my job.

I do think, though, that being in my early 50s, at a publicly traded company with increasing cost pressures and a desire to meet Wall Street expectations every quarter, and an global economy that sux right now and for the foreseeable future, I’ll be lucky to make it even 1 more year w my company, let alone keep a job for 8-10 more years until I retire.

I used to answer phones and now nobody answers phone, so I went on to be a typist and now nobody’s a typist and then went on to be a computer programmer.

I didn’t like computer programming so became a network engineer and I don’t really like that so then I became aproject manager and then I went on to be a contract manager.

Who are these people that think they’re gonna have one job and it’s never gonna change.

By the way, what you’re using isn’t really AI, AI Doesn’t even really exist yet what you’re using is called large Language models.

AI is a cool and fancy term that’s also scary but… nothing is really artificial intelligence yet nothing you do is actually learning on its own. It’s just imitating.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh I have like 5 years left so it’s immaterial to me. But our kids will be affected. They need to build their skills and fast. AI is going to replace the bottom rung highly repeatable low discernment jobs first. While I think AI will absolutely redefine every corporate function I do not believe it’s coming for mid management and senior roles of any function anytime in the next ten years.

Middle management has never been necessary and definitely the most vulnerable to AI advancements in tech.

Get out of your text books and actually walk into a manufacturing plant of 800 people. And I’m talking an advanced robotic manufacturing plant. Even with AI advancements there is no way a VP GM is going to directly manage dozens and dozens and hundreds of people. AI is not going to coach you, redirect you, address your personal needs as an employee at least not anytime soon. It’s the lowest skilled worker that will be replaced.

You do not even realize how behind the curve and times you already are do you? Wow!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a waiter. I'm confident I will retire before the robots come. You can have my job as I'm ready to retire. Oh, and I invested in AI and crypto to be able to retire.
My kid is 18 and started as a food-runner while going to college. Retiring him by 30. He can continue to work if he wants to.

It’s the weirdo restaurant advocate again with more outlandish tales.

Yes. Why put yourself through the hell of waiting at tables? Nonsensical. I say this from experience: my portfolio has done very well (not crypto) and I never needed to wait tables.

Anonymous wrote:AI can’t do anything correctly. If you’re using AI at your job, it means you suck at your job.

Shows how little you know!

OP did you ask CharGPT this question? What say it? Thought that’d be the first place you go.

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Anonymous wrote:Eh I have like 5 years left so it’s immaterial to me. But our kids will be affected. They need to build their skills and fast. AI is going to replace the bottom rung highly repeatable low discernment jobs first. While I think AI will absolutely redefine every corporate function I do not believe it’s coming for mid management and senior roles of any function anytime in the next ten years.

Middle management has never been necessary and definitely the most vulnerable to AI advancements in tech.

Get out of your text books and actually walk into a manufacturing plant of 800 people. And I’m talking an advanced robotic manufacturing plant. Even with AI advancements there is no way a VP GM is going to directly manage dozens and dozens and hundreds of people. AI is not going to coach you, redirect you, address your personal needs as an employee at least not anytime soon. It’s the lowest skilled worker that will be replaced.

I think the pp meant white collar office jobs.

I actually think those middle managers are pretty safe too. Currently those folks spend a lot of time directing junior people and frankly just redoing crappy work that the junior people do poorly. The junior people will get replaced by AI and those same middle managers will be the people directing the AI and then checking it and redoing it when it’s crappy. In most white collar offices, middle managers are the work horses.

On the manufacturing floor, the last 200 years has been a process of reducing the number of people it takes to do any given manufacturing process. I know lots of people that work on the line and they all say that where there were 15 people thirty years ago, there now are 1-2 because of the increased automation. It’s true in construction too, to a lesser extent — stuff now comes precut by machine that used to be hand done at the site and similar changes like that.

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Anonymous wrote:Lawyer here. It can totally do my job. Not yet, but soon.

Really? I am a lawyer and when I use the AI tools, the product is basically like a college intern. It’s pretty far from being anything of quality. And that’s just for legal memos and briefs or document review — I don’t think it does much at all with on feet work or client advice that requires judgment and horse sense.

I do think for basic contracts, wills etc, it is pretty close to there — but the form programs have been doing that for a while. Same with simple taxe filings.

Quick question. Do you expect 12 months from today the AI tools you are currently using to still not be up to par? My understanding is that AI systems get better and better. Or a they getting dumber?

Lots of reasons:

1. I learned to type using what I guess was arguably a primitive version of AI. That was 30 years ago, before I had my first real job. I remember my Dad working on driverless cars. That was also thirty years ago, and they are still only a partial reality. The hype always outruns the reality. Having fully effective systems like these takes decades, not months.

2. It is not clear that AI, like other technologies, will reduce the demand for labor in total. The classic example is ATMs - their introduction actually led to an increase in the number of bank tellers, as banks increased the services they were providing. It is too early to say what the impact on AI will be, but my guess is that some fields will greatly increase output rather than just cutting staff.

3. I am old. I will retire in five’s years or so. I am more concerned for my kids’ job prospects…

Anonymous wrote:I'm a waiter. I'm confident I will retire before the robots come. You can have my job as I'm ready to retire. Oh, and I invested in AI and crypto to be able to retire.
My kid is 18 and started as a food-runner while going to college. Retiring him by 30. He can continue to work if he wants to.

It’s the weirdo restaurant advocate again with more outlandish tales.

Anonymous wrote:I worry that someone could decide they don't need my job done at all. That could happen. But I don't think AI could do the job nor would anyone bother training it to.

Similar thinking here. I'm a former archeologist currently working as a historian. The data simply isn't digital. But we're already living in the world where people are deciding they don't need my job done at all.

I started using AI at work recently just so I am familiar with the latest tools. I just want basic knowledge of AI as everyone is talking about it.

I am not sure having the attitude that "oh I am safe, I am not worried..." Is a strange attitude to me to be honest. Whether AI succeeds or turns into a flop, I just want to make sure I know how to use the tools.

What concerns me though most of us don't really know how companies plan to.use AI. We are all guessing at this point. Having said that, I will be a bit surprised if companions don't widely start pushing for AI adoption wherever it makes sense. Would that affect our jobs? I have noooo idea. At the same time, I am not smart enough to be arrogant and declare that I am safe.

Anonymous wrote:Lawyer here. It can totally do my job. Not yet, but soon.

Really? I am a lawyer and when I use the AI tools, the product is basically like a college intern. It’s pretty far from being anything of quality. And that’s just for legal memos and briefs or document review — I don’t think it does much at all with on feet work or client advice that requires judgment and horse sense.

I do think for basic contracts, wills etc, it is pretty close to there — but the form programs have been doing that for a while. Same with simple taxe filings.

Anonymous wrote:I am a senior level manager listening to people’s problems all day and solving them through personal relationships, mediating interpersonal drama and dysfunction, big picture thinking and goal setting, running meetings.

No I’m not worried at all. I would welcome AI taking my job I am tired.

Me too. Please come and get it AI!

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Anonymous wrote:AI can’t do anything correctly. If you’re using AI at your job, it means you suck at your job.

Lol. Ignorance is bliss. I know I know you are low key terrified.

You people are so annoying and probably are shills for some AI firm.