Yep. Many people are thinking about the much longer term when AI eventually replaces almost all jobs.
In the short term you don't have to outrun the bear just outrun your competitors.
It’s basically like what happened when Excel Spreadsheets became widely used in the workplace.
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Even the Nvida CEO comes right out and admits to the encroachment of AI gradually filling up the tank with warming waters of efficiency. The average employee plays the part of the Happy Frog, not a care in the world, until the slow boiling begins.
You have already lost you job to one of the +-5 million H1B visa holders brought here into the USA over the last 10 years. They are just going to use AI as an excuse why you cant find a tech job. One of the largest scams in history. Nobody knows about it.
sounds true
2 hunters are running in the woods like wild men. One says to the other “we’ll never outrun this bear!”. The other hunter says “I don’t need to outrun the bear I just need to outrun you!”.
Yep. Many people are thinking about the much longer term when AI eventually replaces almost all jobs.
In the short term you don't have to outrun the bear just outrun your competitors.
He’s right.
And companies that don’t transform quickly using AI will lose to companies built on AI from the ground up.
Learn AI, fine. But also learn skills that don’t require modern technology.
That is the dominant idea I have been hearing on the business news shows with interviews with top people in different industries - A.I. will in most cases add a supplement - a tool - to how work is being done more than outright eliminating work. That is not to say some work will not be eliminated by A.I., just that it will not eliminate more jobs than the jobs it will enhance and create.
And, one top executive this morning was pointing out that because of how A.I. gets done - massive A.I. server farms - the infrastructure for A.I. is right now short of electricians and server farm maintenance people (the people that install update and maintain the telecommunications infrastructure) to the tune of about 700,000 over the next decade. When it comes right down to it, some of the old fashioned skilled technology infrastructure trades are jobs A.I. is not only not going to get rid of, but increase demand for.
Right or wrong, I can’t help but see the man selling pickaxes and shovels is telling people there is gold out there. After all he doesn’t need it to work, his sales are up front and final.
Does anybody believe that if everyone adopted using AI, nobody would lose their job?
It’s important to keep the sheep calm while they are being herded into the employment slaughterhouse.
In other words, either you or your coworker are going to lose your job to AI. So the critical point that it will mean a reduction in the overall number of jobs in those fields still stands.
I don’t agree with this guy. We work with and on AI at a very well known company and they are letting all of us go (about 100) and they hired people from India to replace us. We know AI well, the new people do not. But they are now trained (by us) and replacing all of us with our last day on 4/30. The job market is pretty bleak at the moment but we’re looking.
I wonder if anyone thinks about what happens when millions are unemployed?
“Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to your coworker who uses it”
I’ve been using grok for lots of stuff. It’s so nice just opening the app and having it write craigslist ads for me. Take a picture, say what it is, and it pops it out.
I’ve been using it to organize my tax records too. I haven’t looked too closely but upload the receipts and it takes care of it all.
> you won’t lose your job to AI—you’ll lose it to your coworker who uses it
This is a sign that tech CEOs are starting to back away from fantastic promises and recognize reality.
The key to using AI as a productivity booster is to eliminate the time they waste. The sooner you recognize when AI leads you into an endless loop of trial an error, the better your chances of a net gain.
So, if you and your co-workers are all using it, then the squeeze still happens.