Gallup and Bentley University find that most Americans (75%) believe artificial intelligence will lead to fewer job opportunities in the next 10 years.
I've been following this issue (AI replacing jobs) for so many years, it's fascinating to see it finally go mainstream. What's especially striking to me is the bland summary at the end. It completely misses the implications of what the poll is talking about. The issue with AI and jobs is that AI as an employee will be cheaper than us. Thus, in a market-based economy we won't be able to compete with it. As we move to AGI, which presumably will be able to do all jobs - where does this leave our current economic system?
There was a claim in the 00's that outsourcing would eliminate jobs. Except there was still work to do fixing the outsourced code, and that was often higher level work than the initial task. Until we have real AGI we'll have a similar situation with AI tools.
Yeah it sorta goes both ways. I get coders who dismiss it saying they told it to give them some sort of code and it would not even compile. Right now at least its basically an alternative to a search engine but it has no way to validate its results (just like a search engine) so it lets you search a bit faster and maybe get what you need faster but you still have to work with what you get. Once the chat ai folks realize they just need to teach the systems to validate results though and its going to get exponentially better. It might even get to the point where it can simply ask for help and one human will have to manage a team of ai that do most of the more straight forward stuff.
Yeah it plays out for every generation. I was told to be a teacher because there'll be a lot of retirements when I graduated. So many applicants that none gets jobs to this day.
We told years for 10 years to be coders. Now AI is replacing those jobs.
Long term outlook, I'd suggest to.look into careers that a machine won't likely be able to do and maintains the health, safety, and comfort of people. Safe water, wastewater, energy supply, construction, and other similar fields will hopefully be safe against this new technological reality.
If you agree, you're in on the ground floor before it gets saturated from millions of people that are getting put out of work in the next little while.
The only reason Y2K wasn’t worse was because a shit ton of people were hired to fix it before it happened. I remember folks literally coming to my high school in the late 90s and asking students to learn COBOL so we could help. There was a huge effort to stop it before it happened.