Two-thirds of Americans say AI could do their job::Advanced artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT have sparked fears that the new technology could soon replace many careers, and workers believe it, according to a new survey.
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2/3 of Americans overestimate how much AI can do.
If they are that uninformed, maybe we could replace them with AI.
lol nice
2/3rds of Americans don’t know what AI is or the limitations of LLMs.
They have one conversation with ChatGPT, are convinced it’s as smart as a person, and have no idea how it works.
Yeah I think people might be more thinking automation vs AI or AI automation. Two different scales but similar elements.
Or the fear of AI advancement will force everyone to believe that they can work for far less than they are now.
AI will have a place in our future but for the foreseeable future, we’ll still need people to do certain things and think of certain things. AI will also be a tool for the wealthy elite and corporations to better manage and manipulate people and forcing everyone to do more for less.
AI is basically the new gunpowder technology … whoever has it and uses it to their best advantage gets to rule the world. And like with the invention of gunpowder, there’s going to be a whole mess of people everywhere that will suffer and die while a small group of people try to figure out how to become the next momentary God King of the world.
But “future” in this case is surely 20 years or longer. People have been working on this since the 1950s, progress is very slow.
I see a tradeoff … capitalists, wealthy elites and corporations only look at the bottom line and profit rather than in advancement of anything … the only advancement they favour is profit at all costs.
What I see is the public’s fear of AI will mean that people will become more willing to work for less. What this will mean is that as people begin to work for less, cheap human semi-slave labour will become more cost efficient than expensive modern AI, AI tools or even AI machines. Think about it … would you rather invest in a few hundred thousand for a dozen people working for dirt low pay … or a few hundred thousand for one machine that will require regular maintenance, us untested, may or may not be reliable and is still in active development.
I think at this point in development the biggest role that AI is playing is that it is putting fear in everyone and the more fear you put into everyone, the easier it is to control and manipulate them.
AI today, or actual AI someday? And do they need to do the job well, or just at all?
I also wonder how many of these people are open to the idea of UBI when brought up in the context of AI replacing the majority of human labor.
No AI is gonna pick up a drill and some screws and put together these cabinets I’m installing today. In fact AI has zero use cases for me in construction. Absolutely nothing it can do.
Right because there definitely won’t ever be machines that can assemble things. Just tell that to the dozen factory workers who were put out of a job by a single robotic arm 20 years ago
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This would be tight if we weren’t all beholden to Mammon and his devout.
I love this sentence ❤️
Had chatgpt poem it up:
In the shadowed halls of gold and greed, Where Mammon reigns, his creed they heed, A whisper winds, a somber song, Of hearts lost to the worldly throng.
Beholden to Mammon and his devout, Souls bartered in a faithless rout, Chained to desires, ever unfulfilled, In halls of opulence, unjustly built.
Their eyes, like hollow stars, gleam bright, Yet void of warmth, devoid of light, For in their quest for fleeting gain, They’ve traded joy for endless pain.
The nightingale, she weeps in woe, For those who wander, lost below, In labyrinths of gold they roam, Yet farther still from heart and home.
And I, a ghost among these halls, Echo Poe’s lament, his somber calls, For in this realm where shadows play, The soul’s true worth is cast away.
So heed this tale, this mournful verse, Lest you become Mammon’s curse, For wealth unbound by love or grace, Leads but to a darkened place.
And there, in silence, you might find, The truest wealth – a peaceful mind, Unchained from Mammon, finally free, To embrace life’s deeper mystery.
It’ll never happen. AI will know to switch to metric and timestamp things using the correct format.
I’m not American but I guarantee an AI could do over 95% of my job (techops/devops datacenter). It’s only a matter of time until the upper pencil pushers realise this as well.
As an aside, I know my future isn’t in IT anymore, looking for an exit atm.
About the only jobs I believe to be AI-resistant are trade jobs. Until robotics catches up with AI (in regards to how capable it is in replacing humans) there won’t be much use for AI in the trades except maybe as a reference tool. That would still lower the pay of the job (little skill required, just ask the AI what to do next) but at least AI can’t actually do the thing because you can’t digitize the flow of water or the laying of tiles.
I feel like exit from IT is the wrong move tbh. Senior workers will reap the rewards it’s the newbies who are getting into IT now are potentially in trouble.
There will be new job possibilities and niches and AI will just empower people. Suddenly one person can launch and grow a startup which tbh not really possible today even if you’re a straight up genius. Problems will be solved faster and competition will drastically raise the quality of all software.
I mean yeah. But can you really trust the judgment of someone whose job could be done an AI?
Actually even a monkey could do it
Meaning 1/3 of Americans don’t realize that AI could replace them.
/Sarcasm (at least for now)
