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Kirk 1038982122-Feb-18 3:46
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The disruption that will hit us will come from a tangential use of AI.
It's not that they will replace our jobs.
It's that it will replace the human jobs that need our services.

Imagine the GUI development that I do that reduces work effort significantly so users can have data as opposed to search for data they need.

Well, once an AI is doing THAT persons job, they will be directly wired to the same data sources I use, and MY value will drop there.

It's not that the AI will become a computer programmer. It's the advent of AIs doing work with full stack access to all of the information they need, will start by requiring fewer programmers in general.

Then some of those AIs will learn to write reports that they can distribute as needed in order to stop having to answer the same management questions from the managers... Who should be replaced by AIs as quickly as possible!

But I remember in the 1980s when a gentlemen (whose daughter I was dating), told me to change my career choice, because CASE is almost good enough to replace programmers today. By the time I graduate college, there will be no programming jobs.

Luckily someone else I knew said "He's probably a Cobol Programmer who writes reports. AND HIS Job will be gone in 10 yrs, but programmers will still be needed."

So, when I hear this stuff about AIs taking our jobs... I don't completely buy it. Because our FIRST Job is GENERAL Intelligence. the ability to ask questions about a NEW Area we know nothing about, to be able to write software to help automate it within hours, days or weeks.

General AI will come some time after we have specific AI for a bit longer. And by definition it will be the most expensive AI time you will be able to buy.

I do think AI access will be a lot like BitCoin Mining. Renting Custom Hardware for $/min and developing systems to NOT pay for it when it is not in use, so the hardware can be shared.

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