• I don’t want it to happen, but I don’t see any real scientific reason why machine learning won’t eventually subsume jobs at a faster rate than new jobs for humans are created. That might take 15 or 30 years to really hit, but it’s certainly something that needs to be planned for extensively.

    • tbf lemmy users are first to complain and also will be first in line to have clunker girlfriends because it understands them better than real girls

      so upsides and downsides

  • 24 days

    AI gonna go on unemployment and take all the benefits from the rest of us

  • Lemmy: AI is useless, literally useless, it provides no value

    Also Lemmy: It’s going to take all our jobs and we’ll have literally nothing to do because AI will do everything!!!111

    • It’s almost as if Lemmy isn’t a homogenous entity with a single viewpoint… Wow! Who would’ve thought?

      • yeah it’s crazy, sometimes I even see people arguing for both points at the same time

    • The two are not contradictory positions: the problem with AI is societal - all the jobs being given over to it is a problem that’s only compounded by the larger issue of people fundementally not understanding the sharp limitations of AI, and how it cannot actually be used to replace most jobs.

      • if ai is not capable of doing the job people will be hired who can do the job! feel free to read up on supply and demand

    • 24 days

      They don’t have to make an LLM that can actually do your job to get you fired, they just have to convince your boss that it can.

      • and then when it cannot do what people want it to do they will either hire people who can and/or people will leave and stop purchasing the companies products

        this place is literally an example of people moving away from a product (reddit) because it doesn’t do what they wanted to do

        apparently in your universe everyone sticks with the original product until the end of time no matter how bad it gets

        which is surprising we’re not still all on irc and posting on vbuliten forums