With no system to benefit the unemployed workers, means that there is no more government of the people. usa will have shifted into a dystopic technocracy and the “food wars” of the poors will be a good betting scenario for all those tech bros experiencing “ennui”. I’m confused about the slash “s” here but will add it anyway. /s
Jobs are already disappearing. What is the author talking about?
Yup lost my last job to ai
Curious what you were doing and how?
It was an analytical style role, and I guess they figured the machine would do it better than me. But before I lost my job I had checked what the machine was pulling, and the answers weren’t accurate
Got it, they thought the could let someone ask the AI to sumnarize or analyze the data. And you can tell it was making it up.
They need the human to know the difference. I hope it bites them in the ass. Sorry you had to lose a job for it, but they dont know what they are doing.
Thanks for that sorry for being vague I didn’t want to risk doxxing myself. Thankfully I’ve managed to bounce back in short order, I know not everyone is so lucky
This is so full of s***. AI salespeople can convince managers to fire you, but it doesn’t mean that the AI will actually do the work you did. So those jobs go away temporarily and then they come back, or they go away permanently because the company fails and it’s replaced by another company that actually produces things.
Or we could totally change the topic and remark that what we’re seeing is that the billionaires are stealing more and more of our money. That’s actually a problem with the billionaires and has little to do with current technology. And it is a real problem that could lead to society changing in various ways. I’m hoping for positive change where we tax the rich and lock up the thieving bastards. But it could also go shitty. Nobody knows.
Whatever happens, technology will continue to evolve, and the AI bubble is still a bubble. It doesn’t have substance. We’ve heard for the last hundred years that technology is advancing more and more rapidly and that we’re going to hit that magical threshold when everything magically changes. And it was always bullshit, and it always will be. Doesn’t mean your job is safe, but your job was never safe. That’s life.
My insurance provider replaced all their customer service people with AI, it’s fuckin useless and I’m switching company.
That’s why these pedo losers all built bunkers
With blackjack! And children!
Jobs have already been disappearing. Entry level programming jobs have been wiped out.
Good luck finding senior programmers in a decade eh
They’re getting their money now. The future doesnt matter to them.
Yeah, they love to sell tomorrow for today
Senior positions are being let go too. My previous employer dropped almost all the senior people and replaced them with juniors with copilot accounts.
I look forward to reading the company autopsy in a year.
Don’t even need to imagine yourself; this is one of the foundational pillars of the worldbuilding in the cyberpunk genre.
I work in IT and as such I work in AI because there’s no getting away from the hype in my line of work.
But I don’t believe in it and I think it can be very harmful for society. I see a few nice things about it (people with disabilities for example) but mostly negative.
To be honest I’m looking forward to the news of datacenters going up in flames. Which I’m pretty sure will happen when people start losing their jobs en masse.
Or all the water in their state (see Utah) or raising the temps so high their power bills are the size of a mortgage.
Tbh theres probably not going to be water in utah by the time the data center finishes construction. And utah will likely be uninhabitable.
I didn’t realize Utah was so bad with their water supply. That’s a bummer to hear because that state is beautiful.
If you find a desolate arid desert beautiful, then yes. It’s a whitish brown Arizona.
I imagine lots of ugly social media posts promising ugly things but probably not a whole lot else, since “Revolt” isn’t a clickable item on a menu. I’m speaking only as an American - we’ve become a people who buy bags of pre-shredded lettuce and pre-grated cheese. You can’t expect much action from us if it takes us very far from a phone charger.
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Not saying the answer is space communism, but the answer is space communism.
Jokes aside, worker displacement is only a problem if displacement means not landing in an economy, a second parallel economy must be made to capture people so we don’t all just succumb to homeless/moneylessness.
What I have noticed thispast year is that higher ups aren’t really understanding the total cost of AI solutions. They go use sites to have conversations with the most powerful LLMs not realizing that your company is not going to afford that level of tech. Your current IT infrastucture can’t add a few dozen high power/high cost systems to train the model for your business’s nuance. It is never a build it and forget it problem.
Additionally there is a skill of humans being easily retrained for other tasks. Creating a Jack of All Trades will net you a great workforce with people filling roles when you have medical leave, turnover and business pivots. AI isn’t general enough to make this change without major redesign.
The only “problem” with this amazing skill is that companies no longer run on the idea of employee retention. You get promoted by jumping ship. Working harder doesn’t make the headway in a company like it used to 25+ years ago.
I’m not really getting raises for a couple years, despite being a can do high performer. So now I just use AI to do mediocre work, and only work around 3-4hrs per day.
AI allows you to quiet quit without shitty bosses noticing. Win win :/
Maybe this isn’t quiet quitting and is just the job now
Is your company hiring? 😅
Yeah, but they ghost everyone I recommend and hire based on some kind of nepotism. I think I just got lucky when nobody important had a friend to do the job I applied for
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I actually like using AI in my workplace to rid the need for tedious data entry. But i realised that if I told people about it, the management might see that they may not need me anymore so i won’t teach anyone how to efficiently use AI.
Years ago, my wife took a job as the lone secretary to a lawyer with a high volume of paperwork, permit applications, etc. The previous secretary, who had retired, didn’t like the computer, and just typed everything by hand.
My wife automated all the forms so she could jump from field to field, and get the paperwork done much faster. So fast in fact, that he decided not to hire the second secretary, and just dump it all on my wife. Then he turned out to be an absolute monster in so many ways that my wife just up and quit one day, which was fine with me.
But she had never told him about her automated forms that she created. He just thought her increased productivity was due to using the computer. So she told me that she made those forms to help herself, not him, and dumped all of them before she left, and he never knew.
I had a shitty job for a while. A good chunk of my day was taken up with just running this one report. A coworker and I would alternate weeks.
Well I automated it. It still took me half the day to run it, but that’s because I needed breaks to play with my daughter and pet my cat.
When I quit, I sent the automation to my coworker. No sense in her wasting her time.
Yeah I am aware that managers will just put more jobs on to you if you do it quick. That’s why I don’t tell them if I finished a task early.
Lol please. America already gutted its entire industrial base to the point where there’s a permanent shortage of blue collar jobs, and most people are working crappy wages in a service role for whichever megacorp owns the entire market.
AI could take over tomorrow and there wouldn’t be enough people to care, despite getting utterly screwed over.
It might only get ugly if purchasing power collapses and causes solvency. Otherwise it’ll just continue to degrade into an infinite debt economy which is basically just generational slavery like a significant portion of exploited labor and human trafficking already is.
Don’t worry though, there’s a million other problems that’ll probably pop the bubble first anyway lol.
Even the headline is wrong. Jobs have already started disappearing due to AI.
I did some AI training a couple of years ago. Turned out I trained the AI to do what I was doing.
Fool me once…
fool me once… and I’ll not have a chance to be fooled twice
What job were you doing that AI can do it?
It was fairly basic, just analyzing audio tracks and extracting the dialogue from them to text. Simple stuff for AI now.
I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It’s been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.
They were freelance contract jobs, and I haven’t seen anything that easy in a long while 😒
I’m sorry if you lost your job, but if you actually helped improve talking to these damn things then I thank you for your service.
Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you’d have to manually go over everything.
Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day’s work in 5 minutes.
Writing snarky emails to end users.
They got you too, huh
I would love to see an AI trying to my job. It’s useless at almost every aspect except for seeming like it knows what it’s talking about.
So the higher ups who never know anything will listen to it, implemented it’s dumb suggestions that are either unworkable or actually illegal and will burn the company to the ground. It would be hilarious if it weren’t for the fact that I would be out of a job.
They want a new financial management solution (currently they’re using some ancient thing on SAP) they’ve looked at a few solutions but they don’t like any of them because they all cost a lot of money since they all go with the subscription model these days rather than just letting you buy the software in one big payment. They have actually considered letting an AI right some software for them. Should be fun.
exactly this happens constantly as tech advances we both find new stuff to do and things like universal income pop up as efficient ways of keeping people happy and healthy
I’m told that AI can’t actually replace humans, so presumably those jobs will be back in short order.
I work in healthcare as a nurse. I can’t see AI doing this. Esp. with ACA satisfaction scores. I still have patients with old flip-phones that don’t really know how to turn them on or make a call.
They were just layoffs in disguise, so they wont be back for a while.
I think they’ll all come back after public sentiment seems to lean towards, “I’ll take what I can get and keep my head down, if it means I can afford groceries.” Then, they’ll be able to hire back senior specialists at a massive discount.
