I went and had blood drawn for some blood tests this morning.
On the drive back, I turned on the radio and the person on the station was talking about ChatGBT and AI and was saying how this type of stuff is going to cost a lot of jobs. Computer programming jobs and the like. He also talked about how it is likely to interfere with learning and true thinking as students will just be able to use AI to finish there homework assignments and such.
I did not get to listen to the whole conversation as I finished the drive before it was over.
My knowledge in this area is very limited, but I tend to believe that this is no different that the internet or robotics or such similar technologies that will be integrated into our society and there is probably nothing to fear.
I tend to believe some people are just afraid of change. Society will adjust to whatever changes AI brings IMO, just like we did to the internet and other such technological advances. I don’t think it will make people dumber and unemployed. Educators will find a way to adjust with these new technologies and things will be just fine.
Don’t get me wrong. It probably will eliminate some jobs in some fields. But new jobs always sprout up. The current unemployment rate in the US is 3.4% despite continuous technological advances that people always think are going to cost jobs.
It is. The image generating AIs are putting out art good enough for book and album covers and they do it instantly. Artists who do this for a living are already reporting a sharp decline in commissions. People who write ad copy are already hooped.
If you look at the problems we’re having in Western society, a lot of them boil down to the fact that automation has taken over many of the jobs that can be done by people of below or average intelligence. This has left them unemployed and disenfranchised. The technical and engineering classes felt they were safe. Now, not so much.
I think we’re going to need radical taxes on AI products. If they replace humans then they need to provide the income to support the replaced humans.
You may be right about jobs. I don’t know. I only know that people have been saying everyone is going to be unemployed due to technological advances since I was a child. Yet the unemployment rate here is at 3.4%.
Even if it does, don’t you feel that in the long run it things will be better for it? Technology serves us. Maybe it will be necessary to tax the bejeezus out of AI products to provide for people resources for those replaced.
But , in the end, doesn’t Technology almost always just make all our lives easier?
Edit: I have total faith that society will adjust in the long run.
Yeah I can see how the booming art-savvy AI can become a problem…
Text to image, or image to image conversion techniques have reached an incredible level.
I guess there will still be enough room for good old-fashioned brick and mortar (= brush and canvas) artists.
But digital art will probably be taken over by AI.
I guess my view is based on what my husband thinks. He is a network/system administrator at a very large company (worldwide). He thinks that the new AI will help his team to do better, but not replace them. They could use it as a tool to complete tasks quicker than before.
However, he does think that the lower level tech workers would be laid off, eventually.
As for schoolwork… I think that the world will just have to adjust. Like find ways around the AI, to make sure that assignments are honest and organic. I think it will be a great educational tool, in the sense of having whatever questions you have answered in detail, by the AI. But as far as schoolwork goes, like homework, I think society will have to find a way of weeding out the “fake” AI generated schoolwork.
This is what I used to do. A lot of my old contacts who did the same have left the industry. The improved intelligence in switching products and software means that fewer network admins are needed. Then the field took another hit from cloud computing. Companies need about 1/5 the admins they did two decades back to manage 3x the network.
Ai definitely take over my job.chat gbt is already enough sufficient to take all whitecollar job of education ministry at my country.and i m sure it will be more sufficient than most of my collagues.(they are totally du.b a… )thats why i want to be geriatric nurse.5th industrial ai revolution at least one century can not take over that job.at least not in my country
I listened to a podcast recently where they were interviewing an artist who was suing one of the creators of an ai art generator. They trained the ai using some of her artwork and they never requested her permission and she did not receive any compensation from the company. This apparently happens to a lot of artists. I guess ai at this point can’t really create art, it just spits out some amalgamation of the art that was used to train it. I would probably be mad too if I was an artist and this happened to me.
I also take issue with this. You don’t just change careers overnight. It took me years to transition from having been a chef to working in IT after the injury (add three additional years lost to SZ). When I was finally making bank in IT the stress caused a heart attack that bounced me out of the industry. I wound up running a PC repair shop, which is a different ball of wax. Just when I was doing well there (it took years), the market changed and it was suddenly cheaper to throw out a PC than fix it. I wound up driving a fuel truck and then a school bus, both for not great wages. When a worsening heart pushed me out of those, I accidently (and luckily) wound up in insurance.
It took me four years in insurance to make enough that I could support us at a minimal existance. The past two years have been kind to me and I can now support my wife and I sort of comfortably if needed.
Every career change was accompanied by years of stress and poverty while I learned new skills. I don’t have left in me to do it one more time - I’m in my last career.
People who think that those who lose their jobs can “just transition” are not properly educated on what is involved in terms of human cost.