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

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?
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

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.
 
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....

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.
 
The one band over time I kept seeing rediscovered, my CD kept being taken by my sons friends, pissed me off got my son to buy me a new copy. went too party after my marriage watched a kids at least ten years younger than us discover the doors and their reaction then years later see my son and his friends discover them. Now looking to watch my granddaughter hear them.
 
AI is creating writing, art, film, but will it ever be able to create things that are actually unique?
Yes. Very much so. That's exactly what it is doing right now. It's already creating new molecules for the pharmaceutical industry. It's already discovering new mathematical solutions and ways of understanding high-level physics, leading to advancements in aerospace and other fields. It's just in its infancy right now. It used to be a doubling of knowledge every few years, then every year, then every 6 months, now every few months...and we are in a race to build massive AI data centers as fast as we can.

It used to be that even a year ago, we were predicting that all of human knowledge and intelligence would be surpassed within 5 years...well, now, many are suggesting we've already passed that milestone. Humans think linearly, and really struggle with exponential growth curves...even the experts who claim to understand these things. When very knowledgable experts predict 5 or 10 years "this will happen", now-a-days, it will happen next year.

This will be a tsunami-like experience. Companies will be put into positions where if they don't invest in AI systems, they won't be able to compete...and there will be massive job losses.
 
AI is creating writing, art, film, but will it ever be able to create things that are actually unique?

That's where I see an avalanche of litigation occurring regarding much of any entity using and maintaining AI. That odds are that anything it comes up with will not be entirely unique to meet legal requirements relative to sustaining intellectual property rights decided in a civil court of law.

Or are designers of such technology prepared for their forms of AI to process and take into consideration all civil laws in every possible jurisdiction ? To be able to transcend not only an ability to create something, but to take into consideration whether or not they can or should.

And if so, would that legally amount to a machine capable of having an ethical human conscience? But if it did, it would likely follow a "black and white" form of reasoning based on a rigid interpretation of law. In other words, a thought process void of discretion. Which in this world, could also backfire in a big way.

This is sort of a dynamic I ran into in my insurance career. When personal lines underwriting was fully automated based on answering questions that conditionally either accepted or rejected applicants for insurance. Better known as "slot underwriting". A process considered impossible in the world of commercial underwriting, where exposures and hazards are far more complex and individually addressed based on unique factors of particular business entities that cannot be lumped into simple groups for underwriting- or rating purposes.
 
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