Democrats solved the problem. By attacking the energy sector for decades, we will never have enough energy for AI to be super disruptive.
The leap that Claude has taken is real. It’s scary for sure. I’ve worked closely with AI for several years and largely thought it was blown out of proportion. That is until 4.6 was released. I’m looking to enable my team with it now to extend their production. At a minimum that slows my near term hiring. I’m also rethinking the role of research in my industry. Being in commercial real estate - costar has ironically created some safeguards by locking the data down - but with the ease to extract data - this barrier won’t last long.
It simply doesn’t matter. https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ding-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/
Technology making us worry is not new to history, because we worry about cost-side economics; ie, will it replace jobs, since it can But history shows that companies positioned for the pivot view it from revenue-side, ie more productivity. Which means it actually creates jobs. The legacy companies who say, “oh, this will lower our costs,,,Fire ppl…profit, but remain at same production” will lose to the companies that say, “oh, this will increase production at same cost, retrain or replace ees with tech-savvy ones, and maybe we should even ramp up…profit.” I can tell you, that’s the thinking of the tech industry. The fear of programmers is only the ones who can’t change. also, as far as the highest paying positions, I don’t think CEOs are immune to replacement. Imagine an AI ceo with a charismatic actor being his face to the public (but still overseen by a human Board)…. Haha … do you really need a human corporate leader/visionary, or just a charismatic face for your AI CEO. lulz think about it, aren’t POTUS nothing more than a charismatic face for the Illuminati CEO’s being low paid charismatic face for AI … same thing.
I am in the Distribution industry; we move widgets in and out of a building and its mostly cheap manual labor doing the work with above average pay for Supervisors and Managers. In the past year we have tested robots to do minimal things like following a picker to a bin and while they don't pick the item they store and scan the item for accuracy and we now use them in 50% of our DC`s. The footprint of our products is non typical so I think it will be a long time until they can do that, but AI has already affected our CS, and the way we deal with internal Metrics and our financials, it has taken off much faster than I ever dreamed. I have 5-7 years till I retire although I would prefer to stay working in some capacity even if its PT but I am afraid in that time span I will not be needed....................hell, I am just hoping to run out the clock. I am scared for the young folks who work for me, they are mid 20`s and 30`s who mostly still live at home, don't understand "the world" and have no real ambitions but their good dudes who work hard, I am not sure what the future holds for them and that scares the hell out of me
Two cents: one skillset AI will never replace is personality and human interaction. So if you're at a job, make sure you're visible and contribute to the conversation in a positive way. If people like you, you're more likely to make the cut. Otherwise, you're just a number and will get cut.
Did they ask it to play tic-tac-toe over and over again until it could beat itself? I hear that might solve the issue.
Not worried about myself as I will retire in the next 5-10 years. I am VERY concerned for my kids. It’s hard to know how to guide them in their career paths.
I don't know if this is true (I hope not), but . . . Almost 28% Americans have romantic relation with AI chatbot: survey
I have the same issue with students. Trying to convince them that, more than learning a certain limited set of programming languages, they just need to learn things quickly, prove that they can learn things quickly, and conduct higher-level analyses. But yeah, in my heart, I just want to say: "make sure you're one of the people who own a castle and not one of the millions living in the mud and slop outside the few castles."
If history repeats itself, and AI is no different, it should increase “white collar” opportunities, not make them disappear. I might be saying this wrong, I’m no economist, but I’m trying to say in my previous post, that in a macroeconomics way, new technology doesn’t mean profits are seen only by reducing the workforce, the economy continued to grow with more production. Like with Ford inventing assembly lines, or advent of pc computers, there was fear of replacing jobs, but those were a huge boom to the workforce in other ways. did industrial automation with robots even really hurt the workforce, wrt the thread title (white collar jobs).
It worries the hell out of me. I am hoping to get about 15 more years of work out of my career (banking), and I really hope it works out. The way I see it, the following are probably pretty safe: - Trades like carpentry, plumbing, electician, etc. - Military officers and enlisted professions - Government - Lawyers - Health Care Who the heck knows though.
