“AI Isn’t Eliminating Jobs Overnight”
No - just give it a couple years.
Be a Mom. No machine is going to ever replace that.
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I would make the case that the introduction of Excel was a bigger game-changer.
Things that used to require the IT Department, end users could do themselves without the IT Department, it just became a part of the job description. As AI-related tasks will become a new part of most job descriptions.
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AI is great for pattern recognition associated with repeatable events.
However, in dealing with “problems” where things are not repeatable human intuition and experience will still be valued.
Another problem with AI has to do with “scale.” For example, let’s talk about electrical codes and design standards. While an AI algorithm can be designed for say troubleshooting the National Electrical Code, there are slight differences in the Electrical Codes of different States. Furthermore, there are differences in the code adopted by various cities. Finally, many companies and government agencies have their own “standards” for electrical design that differ from City, State, and national codes and standards. These different codes and standards have come into being because of problems and disasters that happened in the past. The question is how much will it cost to modify the AI software for all the really small scale “systems” and is it economically worth the savings, especially when those codes and standards are changed every few years?
The same thing is true in terms of troubleshooting. If something is repeatable and predictable, AI is great.......as long as it is fed the right data that describes the problem. But who decides what data to take and what data to not take to feed to the AI model. If you say that the AI model will tell you, then for unique problems or multiple problems, the AI might be fed bad data that produces wrong results. Someone still needs to check that the AI solution actually worked.
Yes, AI will take lots of jobs, but this is not new to history. Look at the industrial manufacturing process. There is artisan hand assemble for customer or small one off things. There are assembly lines with human assembly workers. There is robotic assembly for larger scale production. Then there is “hard automation” for really huge production numbers.
The jobs that AI will take is analogous the jobs lost to automation. There is a scale at which jobs will not be lost and a scale at which AI will be the only reasonable choice.
AI will likely become part of most future jobs, but I think that there will still be highly paid jobs out there for those that have a huge variety of skill sets.
1) They are getting rid of Entry Level positions.
2) Middle Management has already been hollowed out -- Middle Management? A waste of the company's money!!
3) But if you are "highly skilled" right at the start of your career, you can begin right at the top, as the Highly Skilled Expert. That can be your first job ever.
The world doesn't really work that way.
Consulting WRONG
Healthcare Half Right
Highly Skilled Tech Roles WRONG
Accounting WRONG
All of these can be replaced by AI.
The main jist the article is that they are too complicated for AI, but that’s right now. AI is growing fast! And every time AI get used for more complex things, or at least the more often complex solutions get published in a way that AI has access, it adapts.
High tech? Forget about it (with the exception of field tech... see below).
Consulting? Perfectly suited for AI. The higher level stuff will come on board sooner than later.
Accounting? Same thing.
Health care? You still need nurses. Doctors? Unless they are doing surgery or performing a procedure, you’re lucky if you ever see one in a hospital. They make short cameo appearances, say a few things, then disappear for days at a time.
The only jobs that are safe (until we start perfecting AI controlled robots) are hand-on jobs. The trades.
Construction laborers. Mechanics. Field technicians. Electricians.
They’re even going to have automation for fast food, although you don’t need AI for that.
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The two most secure professions, by far, are electrician and plumber.