Artificial Intelligence May Replace Millions

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I have 6 Amazon Echo Shows around my house. If I have any health problems, I ask my Echo Shows and they tell me how to treat the problem. Of course, they cannot write prescriptions. However, I never call my doctor anymore about anything. My Echo Shows have become my doctors and I only ask them about any health problems and they have always solved my problems. It looks like AI is starting to replace doctors.

and a good job too - there are some bad ones out there?

 

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The trades are likely to be among the better protected jobs for now, but there will still be far too many people competing for work.

Wages for jobs that AI does not replace are likely to decline, as a larger pool of job seekers will be willing to accept lower pay just to secure employment.

lie to see ASI replace bricklayers or carpenters - the hands on trades?

 

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The problem with "trades" is, manual labor has been stigmatized. Most young people these days don't want to do construction work or become mechanics, or learn HVAC. They want to work at computers and become social media influencers.

don't want to will become 'will have to' heh!

 

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I think that humans will still be needed when AI messes stuff up. I’m not sure how that would work but artificial intelligence can only get so far.

flexibility and adaptability and sixth senses are human traits - not available to AI

 

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I look forward to the day when newscasters are AI generated. We'll be able to choose what they look and sound like, and what kind of personalities they have. We'll be able to choose from professorial types or airhead blonds -- whatever you want them to look like will be of your choosing.

The news itself will be aggregated from a variety of sources. Reporters will still need to do on the scene reporting, but they'll just enter the information into a database from which AI will generate news stories and the AI newscaster of your choosing will tell you about it. You'll be able to ask follow-up questions to gain deeper knowledge.

Of course, the problem with that is, AI could easily generate stories with fabricated videos and interviews, so we won't know what's truly real. We'll need to have AI bots policing the stories to tell us what's real and what's fabricated.

Should be interesting.

sounds a bloody nightmare??

 

[PeppermintPatty]

flexibility and adaptability and sixth senses are human traits - not available to AI

I never implied that AI had these traits

 

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You may very well be right, and I think there is good reason to be concerned, but if I were a betting man, I would never bet against humans. We have the unique ability to improvise, to think outside the box, and imagine things that have never been, and if the past tells us anything, it is that humans don't give up easily. Each one of us has a lifetime of experiences to draw from when facing ambiguous situations. We have curiosity to try new and novel things, and we can be very adventurous.

I remember an episode of Star Trek where Captain Kirk was replaced by a thinking machine that was able to take control of the whole ship. The captain was even referred to as Captain Dunsel, which was supposed to mean that part of a ship that served no useful purpose. Well, Kirk felt lost and not needed, which greatly disturbed him. All went fine for a while until the master mind computer mistook a drill for an actual attack and blew up the other participating ship. Anyway, the great M-5 Multitronic unit refused to give up control, and Kirk had to use his imagination and learned skills to subdue it. Maybe we will have to ol' Shatner around for a few more years just in case.

I like your style of talk buddy keep on talkin!!

 

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Ps: I am not really Smiley but AI generated??

 

[jim_slim]

The layoffs IMO….is due to the end of the holiday season.

 

[Paladin1950]

I work in healthcare. No worries about robots walking around doing our jobs.

 

[QuietByNature]

If it isn't AI it'll be automation that takes over.
The company i just retired from built a new 220,000 sq ft warehouse that is 95% automated with approx 30 employees for 3 shifts.
The old warehouse had over 100 employees

 

[Been There]

The DOD has been using AI for well over 50 years.
I doubt if it will have an adverse effect on personnel in the military.
AI may effect the number of civilian jobs, but that remains to be seen.

 

[Gardenlover]

lie to see ASI replace bricklayers or carpenters - the hands on trades?

I didn't understand your reply, but I think we agree.

 

[Sunkist]

I work in healthcare. No worries about robots walking around doing our jobs.

Well, there's this: 'It's a game changer': Artificial intelligence helps Iowa surgeon reconstruct teen's jaw

and there had also been articles (not specific locations) about some kind of robots used to do surgeries... (and class-action lawsuits over frequent errors/complications.)

 

[Sunkist]

The DOD has been using AI for well over 50 years.
I doubt if it will have an adverse effect on personnel in the military.
AI may effect the number of civilian jobs, but that remains to be seen.

I read it's been used in medical research at least as far back as 1960.

 

[Sunkist]

that's because we've become too smart for our own good!

Ohhhh, not everybody...
When I was preparing to retire, I told a person who was with a government agency that I lost my job because of Artificial Intelligence.. and she said 'Oh, that's too bad- have you applied for Disability?' The dopey woman thought AI was some kind of health issue!!!

 

[Rider77]

When u say the real issue...do you mean education issues? Just curious because of your interesting post.

Yes I did. I feel like the basic education standards we are by law required to have has allowed our country to fall behind.

 

[Rider77]

Early in my professional life I wrote a lot business programs. Those were in Basic, Fortran, RPGII, and COBOL. The computer coding today is light years beyound anything I ever wrote. It's like comaring an eBook to characters painted on a cave wall.

 

[Sunkist]

Yes I did. I feel like the basic education standards we are by law required to have has allowed our country to fall behind.

because priorities have changed.. and not for the better

 

[Rider77]

because priorities have changed.. and not for the better

I'm not only referring to the youngest among us who are trapped by the shortcut language in texts. I have read some very interesting articles on subjects of interest to me only to find horrible spelling and clumsy grammer. I'm not perfect in those areas but spell check can help although it sometimes could get you in trouble.