Artificial intelligence will destroy ‘laptop class’ workers

The Hill ^ | 03/08/2023 | Kristin Tate

[TexasKamaAina]

The coming artificial intelligence economic revolution will be a major shock to the world. There is a serious possibility that the next decade will bring about a series of social and economic changes akin to the Industrial Revolution and the advent of the internet combined. Many writers, human resource officers, lawyers, writers, artists, and even coders increasingly will be replaced by AI as the “laptop class” of workers is decimated. At the same time, blue-collar workers who work with their hands will enjoy job security; their services cannot be replaced by technology. Unfortunately for waves of young people, the media’s advice to “learn to code” may have been like investing in typewriters.

[DIRTYSECRET]

100% unemployment. Then what? The end of work. Read it somewhere.

[JSM_Liberty]

“even coders increasingly will be replaced by AI”

Coders have already been replaced. In the old days you used to have to actually code the 1s and 0s. Now you can give a few simple instructions and a compiler actually does the coding for you.

[lightman]

Hard to feel sorry for the folks who profited from the lockdown and “remote work.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The Eloi.

[dfwgator]

In the old days you used to have to actually code the 1s and 0s.

And sometimes we didn't even have the 1s.

[Skwor]

They really do not understand AI. It is hardly as effective as they wish it was.

I do believe some tasks will be replaced by AI / technology but not the wholesale being predicted.

It is more likely AI will be tried and just further break our society. I am more concerned with our societal infrustrure collapsing because of a reliance on AI that will eventually be exposed as an utter failure.

[GOPJ]

It’ll destroy most lawyers and doctors too. And ‘journalists’...All for the better.

[Red Badger]

AI will soon replace most Fast Food workers, Restaurant workers and basically any worker that is just and interface between the company and the customer...................

[PeterPrinciple]

People will have a lot of time to read the books and articles written by the AI........................

Then they will riot.

Then we will pay them not to riot,

etc.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess you are not a coder?

[JSM_Liberty]

I guess you don’t understand sarcasm.

[imabadboy99]

Whatever. AI is a bunch of BS. Garbage in = garbage out.

[Mogger]

The mining industry has been replacing people in the mines with people controlling mining equipment remotely.

The next step is already starting with autonomous mining equipment.

This will be vary handy for mining asteroids and the moon.

[ConservativeInPA]

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[bert]

The young man came to do the anual maintenance check on my heat pump. He carried a tablet sized computer.

The man came to repair my oven. He carried a tablet sized computer.

The lady who checks me in at the Auto repair garage for maintenance does it all on her tablet.

The concept you envisage is not really valid. To hold one of the jobs, computer savvy is necessary

And all that doesn’t even begin to talk about the trades dependence on the small computers called Smart Phones.

[Red Badger]

We have yet to find that mining asteroids would be a worthwhile project.....................

[aquila48]

“At the same time, blue-collar workers who work with their hands will enjoy job security; their services cannot be replaced by technology.”

The Latinos (legal and illegals) who dominate the blue collar jobs are going to like this.

[Tell It Right]

I guess you are not a coder?

True that. He lost me at "a few simple lines". LOL

There are 11 kinds of people:
Those who understand binary.
Those who don't.
And the Democrats who think people are nonbinary.

[Yo-Yo]

Coders have already been replaced. In the old days you used to have to actually code the 1s and 0s. Now you can give a few simple instructions and a compiler actually does the coding for you.

Sheesh, how old are you, anyway? I'm 63 and we had compilers when I was learning Fortran and COBOL in 1980. We had BASIC interpreters when I was programming BASIC in High School.

I've written (very tiny) programs for the 8086 in machine language for a class, and had to manually load in the Hex, but that was still not binary.

I do remember the very first home computers like the Altair 8800 that had binary toggle switches on the front panel that you used to load the bootstrap program, then load the rest via punch tape reader. Is that what you're talking about?