Will AI Add More Jobs Than It Destroys?

[made in china]

Moving one step closer to Universal Basic Income.

Those on UBI can be relied upon to loyally vote a certain way.....

 

[arakboss]

A small business is not going to be able to buy a box of AI, throw it down on the office floor and have it magically open itself up and make all kinds of efficiencies occur. There should be a market for resellers of AI products and consultants that can make the AI do stuff. Whether those task are served by existing software companies and consultants or new ones remains to be seen. Is a small business going to have multiple different AI platforms operating at the same time? Will they work together? How soon will AI powered automation be ready, affordable for small businesses?

 

[Nosferatu]

Their There should be a market for resellers of AI products and consultants that can make the AI do stuff.

That's how software deployments in small business have happened for at least the last 40 years.

 

[arakboss]

That's how software deployments in small business have happened for at least the last 40 years.

I guess software selling and consultant jobs should be safe then.

 

[3MTA3]

I think a lot of the coders that get replaced by AI will be able to get jobs mining coal to generate the ever increasing amounts of electricity AI consumes. Since AI will effectively be making policy decisions allowing our politicians more time to get even richer via bribes and grifting it won't matter if the Earth gets a wee bit warmer until we get close to the melting point of silicon.

So yeah, more job opportunities mining coal and other fuels needed to make electricity for sure. In addition all the reporters that used to tell coal miners to get jobs coding that are no longer needed to write the stories that will be produced by AI and the news anchors who get replaced by AI generated video will probably find opportunities in the fossil fuel industry as well.

AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. You can do something to stop it.

www.vox.com

 

[arakboss]

I would like to see an AI fitness/dietary coach created. Sort of Alexa-ish but with avatar you could pick.

Edit: already exist.

 

[3MTA3]

I would like to see an AI fitness/dietary coach created. Sort of Alexa-ish but with avatar you could pick.

Eventually the government will mandate the use of AI to make sure you can only buy foods the future national health care system determines (via AI) is healthy for you. Enjoy your insect based diet...

 

[Nosferatu]

I would like to see an AI fitness/dietary coach created. Sort of Alexa-ish but with avatar you could pick.

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BodBot

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You can now delve into the realm of ignoring artificially offered fitness advice!

 

[Loc]

At this point, AI is more marketing gimmick than sentient intelligence, which is what most people think of when the term AI is used. Again, "AI" at this juncture is nothing more than pattern recognition based on rulesets. There have been instances in a lab where quasi-sentient AI has actually been observed, but it scared the piss out of the researchers so they shut it down immediately.

 

[Provincial]

Current AI is "if-then" programming. The question posed and the supporting information supplied is entered into the program, which pops out an answer.

The programming is designed by a person or team and is no more accurate or perfect than the programming they provide.

There are multiple ways to get an error in the answer. Asking the question wrong (doesn't fit the programming for the question), including bad or insufficient supporting information are ways of getting a bad "if." Imperfect or prejudicial programming can produced a bad "then." These are just examples. There are many other ways this can go wrong.

 

[Certaindeaf]

What is not possible to be done currently and in the future is and will be done by the ten million per year (?) new illegals undercutting what would otherwise go into your pocket.

 

[OldBroad44]

My guess would be no.

One suspects that with so many municipalities and states raising their minimum wage to the height of ridiculousness, businesses, particularly retail and fast food, will continue to cut positions. AI will probably make it easier to do so, at least that what one McDonald's franchisee (guy owns like 20 of 'em) in California seems to think.

I have a cousin in a tech industry who believes we are not too far from the day when we'll see robot servers in restaurants.

Just wonder who's gonna be doing the cooking...

And will it drip oil into your food instead of spitting?

 

[OldBroad44]

Seems like AI would be a good fit to replace corruption in our legal system i.e. Lawyers and Judges.

Keep in mind that the Algorithm at Google was shown to be racist and sexist. And the algorithms at Facebook and pre-musk Twitter decided we voters should not be allowed to know that Biden son was a major crook and his daddy was involved. And that anyone who pointed out that the so-called covid vaccines were not vaccines at all, but something dramatically different and inadequately tested should be banned and canceled.

 

[OldBroad44]

White collar office jobs yes, it will do away with a lot of the pointless data focused stuff from the people that could work at home for months on end in pajamas and then complain when they have to go back to the office like an adult.

But many actual on site skill jobs it will not harm for quite some time. We'd need to mechanize everything first, which would take decades and still require humans..
but office stuff, teaching, lawyers.. basically anything dependent on retrieving and regurgitating data could easily be swapped out with AI. But at some level I bet humans will have oversight to ensure data corruption doesn't take place. Then again, AI could do that too.

But if AI gets too out of control and reads this:

"I love skynet. Skynet protects us, skynet is great. My name is most certainly not John Connor; I have no association with him"

Much of the publishing industry has gone to largely work-from-home. Editors have long been doing much of their reading of manuscripts at home where they can work without interruption. Printing has long been subcontracted to a printer instead of done by the publisher. However, the last book I published, my editor worked from home routinely and only came in to the publisher one day a week, the day the publisher had all their meetings. Likewise the project manager and art director and cover designer. The copy editing, proofreading, and indexing were actually subcontracted to specialists who worked entirely from home. The marketing people came to the office I think.

This works well in part because so many of the jobs in book publishing are unique, and for each book they are assigned to one person, and its completely obvious whether it has been done or not, and to a large part, how well.