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AI and robotics are coming. Which jobs will be in high demand? Which jobs are at risk?

Magna said:
I just read something today that U.S. companies are adopting AI for entry level office/professional related work (e.g. phone support, customer service, etc) and as a result, they're NOT hiring young graduates wanting to enter the labor market.

Here's my question: Young workers end up climbing the ladder and eventually are the ones that fill the higher level jobs that are worked by older more experienced workers. Older workers eventually...retire. So if companies no longer want/have young workers to ascend the ranks and fill the more skilled positions....who is going to take their places after the current batch of older workers retire?
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Depends upon the job description, but yes, once a company updates their system to AI management of some sort, those human jobs are gone.

We have to get our minds wrapped around this new reality. "Adapt and overcome" will be a necessity to survive this new world. Many so-called "white collar" jobs will be eliminated. For all of those that bought into this 4yr professional degree, MBA world,...that future is NOT secure.
 
I guess I was ahead, myself, and two of my brothers plus my two sons got technologist diplomas worked out better than undergraduate degrees, between trades and degrees. Three years of technical education.
 
I would open a high-end luxury goods business selling stuff made by certified humans.

When machines do everything there's gonna be a market for that.
 
TBRS1 said:
I would open a high-end luxury goods business selling stuff made by certified humans.

When machines do everything there's gonna be a market for that.
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That would be a good idea.

The same I'm betting will hold true for art and media. Once TV, movies and music is dominantly made by AI, I think there will be a big trend toward enjoying previously human created art and media. "The classics". I think there will definitely be a certain percentage of people that have no interest in spending time watching 100% AI (computer) generated media made to simulate human creativity.
 
Magna said:
That would be a good idea.

The same I'm betting will hold true for art and media. Once TV, movies and music is dominantly made by AI, I think there will be a big trend toward enjoying previously human created art and media. "The classics". I think there will definitely be a certain percentage of people that have no interest in spending time watching 100% AI (computer) generated media made to simulate human creativity.
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I think you are entirely right.

Food prepared by humans. Literature written by humans. Art created by humans. Music, played by humans.

These will be the new luxury items that only the very rich...

...and the very poor will have.
 
I am skeptical that the large language models being hyped as "AI" are really going to end up doing anything good. The problem is that the capability to deliver on the promises of "AI" don't seem to be technically possible. LLMs do not actually know anything. They are extremely good at stringing words together in a way that makes people believe they are knowledgeable, but they are not really. I think this is a bubble that will pop like tulips.

What they are doing is polluting everything with generated slop and harming the mental health of people that interact with chatbots as if they were real people. They are very successful at those tasks.
 
Judge said:
All amounting to a "party" that hopefully I won't live to see. (If my government doesn't kill me first.)

Not a lot of optimism floating around these days, either way. All amounting to "Catch-22" whether you are gainfully employed or retired on a fixed income.

So let us uplift ourselves in a song....

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Great song. When I was a teenager, my father wouldn't allow me to listen to the Doors. I don't know why--he'd let me listen to any kind of grunge or punk rock or heavy metal...for some reason he wouldn't let me listen to the doors.
 
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