Posted on 09/19/2025 1:31:40 AM PDT by RandFan
@dotkrueger
Get ready to lose your job
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What do you think Freepers?
Notable absents from his list are tradespeople and sales.
Time to adapt and prepare for what's ahead or are we worrying about nothing? The poster in comments reckons governments will have to introduce universal income/checks (UBI) .
By the way, someone has to operate the robots they wont be flawless so there’s that..
AI does a lot of things but it still cannot create new things. It can teach but only from materials already known. It can make but only programmed things.
Someone will have to be innovators or we will live in a static world. A large part of inventing is done by observing necessities. If no one is actually doing, there’s not much room for invention.
Even tradespeople will be affected. If I’m not working, I’m not going to have the money to pay anybody for any work. This is also not to mention that big corp is going to be trying to figure out processes to minimize the work that trade people have to do. This will result in less trade people working.
The AI will still need human test subjects for their experiments, and also to drag them into pits for mass disposal later.
It’s going to be disruptive but I dont know to what extent.
Hard to see. In previous threads on this topic posters have said dont worry new jobs and opportunities will spawn.
Key on trades performed at corporations.
I work mostly somewhere different everyday.
Power.
It won’t be outsourced in my time.
In the short term, they are probably correct. That is the history of innovation.
However, long-term, I can’t see how that would hold true.
Every time AI can do a task that is a job that is gone, but the jobs that will replace it will be less numerous.
“The poster in comments reckons governments will have to introduce universal income/checks (UBI)”
Draft everyone affected into the Reeks and Wrecks.
Not buying it.
We can’t even make a decent snack machine without your Snickers bar getting hung up.
Kiosks are only the beginning ….. next is plastic required to o complete transaction followed by loss of jobs …….
Re: Factory workers. I work in a factory making rocket engine parts. Been doing it 35 years. The tech is as high as it gets and we already have lights out manufacturing which requires human operator intervention to load/unload parts/configure machine for operation/route parts etc. To replace humans with robots does not seem realistic to me. What will maintain the robots? Another Robot? What will maintain that robot? More efficient ways of production is as old as business itself and its been going on for businesses in one way or another forever. Think Henry Ford inventing the production line concept. Robots replacing humans is a fun sci-fi concept but im certainly not going to lose any sleep over it.
I don’t get this hype of an AI language model as if it is in any way “thinking”.
It is very good at scraping information sites and summarizing a body of knowledge that is common, well-known, and fairly solidly established. Or at least uncontroversial.
But in the fields that I have expertise in, which require obscure sources or (worse) original research, I have seen it just completely make stuff up that is 100% flat-out wrong. So there is no way I would use it for research.
It’s a tool....it has its uses. It may well replace a number of fields.
Currently I’m most worried about art....not that AI is as good as human artists, but just that most people don’t care about that kind of quality.
And people calling themselves “artists” because they used a prompt is just plain nuts. If I was to commission a painting from an artist, telling him exactly what to paint with more detail than a prompt would allow, I STILL wouldn’t dare tell people that *I painted it.* But that’s exactly what happens with so-called “AI artists.”
Anything cheaply made will be unvalued. That’s what’s going to limit AI adoption in the years to come, even if the technology continues to improve.
Hehehe!
I am retired so I can say whatever!
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It won't be the laid off. They'll be useless eaters. The number of people who still have incomes won't be enough to justify the numbers and investment this automation will enable.
You don't need to assemble 10 million cars a year if there are only 2 million potential paying customers.
Can’t they just use the info the aliens got from the subjects we “lent” them?
“Even tradespeople will be affected. If I’m not working, I’m not going to have the money to pay anybody for any work. This is also not to mention that big corp is going to be trying to figure out processes to minimize the work that trade people have to do. This will result in less trade people working.”
3D printing using AI can change the construction industry.
Largely bogus.
Teachers are babysitters. That’s not about to end.
Doctors are already dictated to by the insurance companies and the “standard of care” and their jobs aren’t going away.
There will still be surgeons in the operating rooms.
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