Posted on 01/30/2025 10:12:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“’among the first displaced.’
Then how can they be AI-proof?”
(My question too.) Robotic surgery has been taking place for decades.
“you’re job is safe until AI figures out how to replace you with a robot, which will operate under the AI’s control”
AI can tell you what you need to do, no expensive robot need come out to your home. A drone can deliver the needed parts and special tools.
The achilles heel of AI is the energy it requires.
I disagree with this list.
In time AI and Technology could replace most skilled workers where AI and robots do the work. If humans were needed (which may be the case) they will low skilled (and low paid) workers whose role will be to follow the instructions of the AI program.
The time between the first powered flight to landing a man on the moon was just 66 years. Technology was used that the people in 1903 could not even imagine.
As we today are incapable of imagining what the next 66 years.
We have willingly adapted our lives today to meet the capabilities of technology, I don’t see why it will be any difference in the future.
Being in my 70s I am quite glad I will not be around to see this brave new world being created.
The needed parts to what?
You obviously don’t know the mysteries one can run into in the plumbing of 50 year old 10 million dollar homes.
If you know how to think, you’re reasonably safe.
Industrial Automation. You get the best of both worlds, hands on mechanical plus IT. It will take quite a while before AI is used to control industrial machinery and automation. It's going to have to be rock solid reliable like PLCs are now. Even then, people will be needed to interface with the AI and tweak it any time equipment is upgraded or a process changes.
I would need to have any regard at all for the C-suite to think well of them. Don't trust and verify everything.
but it cannot replace the compassion and precision that patient care requires. Indeed, healthcare combines technical knowledge with interpersonal skills to address the needs of patients who are all distinctly unique from one another—a task that can only be done by human beings.
I'd have to see that compassion and interpersonal skills first to be worried about AI not being able to replace it in medicine or much else.
As for teaching, the qualifier is a "GOOD" educator. A good educator reads the class down to the student and adapts. I did adult education at the corporate technical level at times and they were constantly trying to replace me with taped videos via IPI. I finally got tired of the badgering and let them try but I did not let them use me. Instead I just let them run with it ALL and walked away. Told them my schedule was just too busy to teach any longer. It didn't last long before I was called back.
Developments like the da Vinci Surgical System have already realized that scenario somewhat.
All of the above are at risk.df
“You obviously don’t know the mysteries one can run into in the plumbing of 50 year old 10 million dollar homes.”
I was amazed to find that the cast iron drain pipe of my 1978 Florida home was joined by molten lead.
Fortunately, my cast iron pipes are still good.
Quite often the plumbing of six-decade-old Florida homes needs total replacement.
I think that is very true.
And, based on that, I think very few people are reasonably safe.
Lead and oakum is how all the cast iron pipes used to be joined, if a 60 year old house has a bad section that has to be replaced you jackhammer up the floor and replace that section, you don’t replace everything, not even if the house has a raised foundation.
Florida water is pretty rotten stuff.
I had some leaking copper pipe. I found it was foil thick from well water corrosion. And had pinholes further in the wall.
Imagine feeling warm spots under your expensive imported Italian marble floor and wondering where it is coming from, you can call the AI company and tell them you feel warm spots when you walk barefoot on your living room floor and “A drone can deliver the needed parts and special tools.”
“mental health professionals possess excellent communication, active listening, and problem-solving skills, most of which are uniquely human. “
amongst the easiest to replace ... numerous experiments over the years using shrink-bots show that actual humans can’t tell the difference between a shrink-bot and an actual human based just on conversation; AI will make this distinction nearly non-existent ...
The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access the skill while removing the skilled the ability to access the wealth.
-@jeffowski
Farmers and ranchers.
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