Posted on 09/19/2025 1:31:40 AM PDT by RandFan
@dotkrueger
Get ready to lose your job
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It is however a clear rationale to expel illegals. Too bad we’re only going after the “bad hombres” who would have been targets of law enforcement anyway.
It’s not as if it is exactly a new idea or capability, though the capability has clearly been expanded:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com
One job which AI cannot do is decide what information will be in database it pulls its info from. People will spend time discovering new info to go into database
There will be jobs for that. There will be corrupted info or false info in database destroying any credibility of AI.
If AI makes a huge error...who pays for the damage?
The computer, data base manager, the person who used the info, the person who derived false info, the AI controlled bank?
Think of AI as a knowledgeable, potentially dotty assistant.Like Batmans Robin, or butler Alfred.
Many people will use it exclusively, and starve to death eventually. Think about it. If one uses AI exclusively , ones actions become predictable and therefore vulnerable for any reason. Someone can sabotage the AI logic on purpose to destroy the user...
New jobs and opportunity will spring up this is what I think
We just can’t imagine it right now.
For robots, yes.
We just can’t imagine it right now.
AI will have already imagined it, designed it, farmed it out to a robot.
The Luddites will always be with us.
“Soylent Green is people!”
If no one has a job how can society sustain itself?
Not nearly to the level of low-skill work that we’ve got candidates for, however. And low-skill workers have already seen their real wages cut in half by the flood of illegals.
All your base belong to us.
Oh, and we’re producing more low-skill workers via our corrupt educational system than ever before.
Crap. Can AI retire better?
Absolute wishful thinking.
Or flop sweat propaganda.
The Tech Companies have spent $480 billion on AI infrastructure over the past 18 months.
And have received only $40 billion in revenue.
Never mind the ongoing costs for water and electricity;
nor of keeping one’s own chipsets upgraded in data centers
(if your competitor buys a newer generation of chips that are 30% faster, they will eat your lunch, so you have to buy them too.)
LLMs are Mad Libs crowdsourced to Reddit; plagiarism in the rearview mirror.
GIGO.
The static, uninspired, unoriginal, and soulless world of, say, pop music, is proof that people will simply be conquered by mediocrity and hand over their money for the privilege. We’re raising generations of children who can’t read or write or tap into any creativity, so I would expect AI “artistry” to take over without much of a fight.
Having worked with AI a few times a week, I’m here to tell you that AI is overhyped, at least what *I* have access to. And you think, since I work for a Fortune 50, that I’d have access to the best. Or, at least, the second best.
As far as coding, Codiem/Windsurf is supposed to have access to our repos and have a large context token pool, but it fails on anything even mid-level complex. And when I say ‘fail’, it produces MAYBE 10% of what I need... if that.
We also have an inhouse LLM called Strider, sandboxed but using the ChatGPT 4o engine (ChatGPT was a complete bust). It does better with fewer tokens and no access, but it’s still a mess.
AI is good for VERY simple programming tasks and for finding where they put an option in software.
Creatively, outside of work, ChatGPT does great on images, but writing, it sucks at. I can explain why if you wish.
Respectfully submitted: You are ascribing superhuman attributes to something that is nothing more than a fancy pattern-matching algorithm.
McDonald’s.
Your points are very good. I worked for 25 years for an outfit making custom designed machines for mass production. Every machine we manufactured was different based on needs of the customer. AI programmers have no historical data to construct software.
The biggest problem AI will face is the lawyers. Every accident by driverless cars will be bonanza for lawyers. Ditto with patients misdiagnosed by AI.
Try GPT-5 (their newest one)
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