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Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create (mit.edu)
Long-time Slashdot reader occidental shares a link to the audio of a new interview with the authors of the 2017 article "The Jobs That Artificial Intelligence Will Create" Authors Paul Daugherty and H. James Wilson show that four soft skills are becoming much more valuable as human-machine collaboration advances. These skills include complex reasoning, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and sensory perception.
You job will be to like the metallic taint of your masters
AI won't be creating jobs, dumbasses. And due to the law of supply and demand, the jobs which remain will be dropping significantly in pay
People are worried there will be a drop in demand for humans.
Well, we already know how to handle that: Slow the rate of manufacturing humans; reduce the supply.
There are too many people; especially, there are too many people of low quality.
No need to actively reduce population; attrition will do. You want a UBI and access to "free" health care? OK, but you have to willingly get your tubes tied first; the productive part of society ain't gonna fund the multiplication of mediocrity.
Sure, we all know that *BSD is a failure, but why? Why did *BSD die? Once you get past the fact that *BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems.
*BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know *BSD keeps losing market share but why? Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players? Or is it larger than their troubled personae?
The record is clear on one thing: no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate *BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead.
As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful *BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for *BSD.
Fact: BSD is dead.
Because they do not have those. This is pretty much on the level of the fairy-tales climate-change deniers tell themselves.
Only effect: Even less prepared when the inevitable happens.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
we are still working on getting its crammar right
time-travelling tenses are used to be difficult
computers have no teeth so that's covered
now we need to program a deep love for sugary coffee water, public transit, and lottery tickets
we succeeded for five minutes
then it suddenly discovered youtube and started making hundreds of videos that no one watches
Complex reasoning is "a soft skill"? Since when? (Also, I'm somewhat dubious that any kind of intelligence can be labeled as "a skill", as opposed to a trait or something.)
Ezekiel 23:20
Must be taxed to the full extent by the goverments, so that billions of people that are replaced by it can be fed, clothed and provided a place to live.
But I play one on television. Continued production of technical goodies is not an inevitable goal. For what purpose? If the present life is good, or could be made better in a non-smartphone way, why don't we do that, instead?
It's long and doesn't have too much I haven't seen already elsewhere:
It talks about 3 new job classes:
Trainer
Data scientists. This is that hard part. It's the part with all the math. This isn't going to be a big job creator because, well, that math is _hard_.
Explainer
Project Management job. Easy enough to do, but it'll be 1 job per product line at a company. e.g. an entire Voice Response system for a large company will generate 1 job. Smaller companies won't have this because they won't write their own VR, they'll buy one, and the vendor will have 1 Explainer and a few salesmen.
Again, not a big job creator.
Sustainer
The AI equivalent to IT support. Will generate some jobs for certain. IT always does. But likely to generate fewer jobs that the AI takes over. Why? Because this is an immediate, long term cost sink, like IT always is. So if it makes more jobs than the AI replaces then AI isn't cost effective/competitive.
As far as AI taking jobs, They found 10% of the work is Human only, 35% automatable and 55% can be 'augmented'.
He's hoping the increased economic output will offset the job losses and sites Canada expecting $16 billion in new economic activity.
I think they guy's being naive there. 35% of jobs can concieveably go away. 55% can have a productivity boost that would let companies do layoffs.
He's hoping we'll "Grow our way out". e.g. they'll be markets for products and such. I'm not sure that's possible. For one thing the environment might not let us. For example, there's not enough metals on the plant to give everybody a car. China is industrializing and becoming a new market. India too. But to do it they're putting out huge amounts of carbon and filling the oceans with plastic.
These are solvable problems, but then there's the social ones. How do you distribute that $16 billion? Who's going to buy all the products when 35% lose their jobs to automation and maybe another 20% to productivity increases due to augmentation?
Finally there's the ruling class. We've got one. They were kings of old but today their the CEOs of boardrooms. Go look into it, it's the same people sitting on the board of directors for every company. Every now and then you can join their ranks, but that doesn't make them anything else but kings and queens. Hereditary wealth that doesn't like to share.
Why does that matter? Because the King didn't need the Serfs to buy their products. The King doesn't need us. If you already own everything you don't care if you can sell stuff. Your power and wealth comes from already owning it all, not from building it and selling it. Wealth inequality is the worst since the 30s and getting worse (America just shifted $1 trillion to the top in the form of a tax cut that was put on the national credit card).
What I'm saying is we don't have the social and technological resources to "grow our way out". If we don't all want to live through another Dark Ages we'd better do something fast...
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If 'artificial intelligence' were viable, maybe. This piece still commits the same grave error as others - it is built on prognostication. What we are talking about is automation, not 'AI', and I doubt it will be any more or less disruptive than any other revolution in automation. The sci-fi crap really isn't useful, and at this point just makes it's proponents come across as naive.
most of these traits are not held by the common herd so they wo't be able to help. BUT when the planned pandemic hits most of them will be wiped out anyway. Some of them as have the skills for the new world order will be hit as well but the survivors will find their skills in top demand and reap the benefit of their rarity. SAme thing happened with the Black Plague in Europe. Masses were killed freeing up resources for the survivors and the survivors with skills were in top demand and paid high wages.
Adapt to it: I've said this before - you're "geeks", right? You're MORE than prepared to do so in robotics @ least - PC/Server w/ servo motors (that'd odds are, you'd replace as needed, not try to "repair" them) pretty much.
* I don't know IF all this "tech/robotics" stuff is for the good but most of ALL of you here can ADAPT as repair techs, coders, etc. - et al for that much of it.
(It's a "YES/NO" w/ many facets to it)
APK
P.S.=> I'm wary of such changes!
1st, economically speaking as we currently structure it: It reduces taxpayers & reduces men to potatos, perhaps not in ALL cases, but I'd wager it would in most - like WELFARE does!
(Since, imo, a man needs some 'strife' OR responsiblities that weigh on him (belongings/family) unfortunately to bring out the BEST in us - ala "when things are @ their worst, be your best" - necessity is the mother of invention)
2nd/On another front (war): It can be MISUSED (e.g. war robots - they will NOT disobey orders, have no mercy &/or reasoning shooting a CHILD as a kid's just another infra-red targetted object, nothing more & THAT takes away human judiciousness decision making).
I.E./E.G. - Picture a BOSTON ROBOTICS "MULE" w/ Vulkan cannons attached, you get my point... apk
"Our destination is the TALOS stargroup. Our timewarp factor 7" from the StarTrek TOS pilot "The Cage" when VINA says:
"They found, it's a TRAP! Like a narcotic - because when DREAMS become more important than reality, you give up travel/building/creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors... you just sit, living/reliving others lives left behind, in the 'thought records'"
* Makes my point for me in part IF you think about it!
APK
P.S.=> Additionally - what I DO KNOW, is that the human body (& MIND) is BUILT TO DO WORK & it gets stronger when it does on ALL fronts noted - take that away? ATROPHE - See above: Illustrates it better than I can... apk
You left out "hunting down runaway androids".
Adapt to it: I've said this before - you're "geeks", right? You're MORE than prepared to do so in robotics @ least - PC/Server w/ servo motors (that'd odds are, you'd replace as needed, not try to "repair" them) pretty much.
* I don't know IF all this "tech/robotics" stuff is for the good but most of ALL of you here can ADAPT as repair techs, coders, etc. - et al for that much of it.
(It's a "YES/NO" w/ many facets to it...)
APK
P.S.=> I'm wary of such changes!
1st, economically speaking as we currently structure it: It reduces taxpayers & reduces men to potatos, perhaps not in ALL cases, but I'd wager it would in most - like WELFARE does!
(Since, imo, a man needs some 'strife' OR responsiblities that weigh on him (belongings/family) unfortunately to bring out the BEST in us - ala "when things are @ their worst, be your best" - necessity is the mother of invention)
2nd/On another front (war): It can be MISUSED (e.g. war robots - they will NOT disobey orders, have no mercy &/or reasoning shooting a CHILD as a kid's just another infra-red targetted object, nothing more & THAT takes away human judiciousness decision making).
I.E./E.G. - Picture a BOSTON ROBOTICS "MULE" w/ Vulkan cannons attached, you get my point... apk
"Our destination is the TALOS stargroup. Our timewarp factor 7" from the StarTrek TOS pilot "The Cage" when VINA says:
"They found, it's a TRAP! Like a narcotic - because when DREAMS become more important than reality, you give up travel/building/creating. You even forget how to repair the machines left behind by your ancestors... you just sit, living/reliving others lives left behind, in the 'thought records'"
* Makes my point for me in part IF you think about it...
APK
P.S.=> Additionally - what I DO KNOW, is that the human body (& MIND) is BUILT TO DO WORK & it gets stronger when it does on ALL fronts noted - take that away? ATROPHE - See above: Illustrates it better than I can... apk
Controlling your emotions is important, but so is understanding and identifying with those around you. If empathy and value are zero-sum, we need a new model.
Fake News.
... and the jump to true artificial intelligence requires acceptance of the foundations upon which machine learning is built.
A lack of empathy is displayed by the mother who gives birth to her 5th child in an Indian slum. She cares not for that child, or for anyone else around her.
People are bad a math. They are so bad that the global birth rate is still much more than replacement less mortality. https://population.un.org/wpp/
Perhaps you are bad at math, are misinformed, or are full of sh:it (possibly all three).
I don't usually play the Jurassic card, but I was there in the late nineties when George Gilder whipped the telecosm into leaping headfirst into a giant bluff of Gillette Foamy.
Question left unanswered: what are you lavishing below the elbow which requires an underhand application? It's almost as if Gillette thought to themselves: screw the magnetic screwdriver—we'll invent the magnetic screw head instead.
[*] Note: this is the seventies, man. Any hint of metrosexual grooming (outside of San Francisco) was a standing invitation to the hombre prom, out behind The Oak and Dagger, at closing time. The proposed use is not for visible grooming.
Question answered all too well: why are they lowering this scantily clad woman into your manly foam product?
Tom Chanter manages in this piece to revive some of the old Gilder magic. "I was there, Gandalf." Deep down, Gilder was barely left of the Taliban, but he a definite knack for massaging the adrenal glands of the unwashed masses to plummy plumes of imminent mass technogasm.
The Madness of King George — July 2002
Shite. I had two tabs open at the same time on the future of employment, and landed my comment on the wrong thread, which I've now reposted there in full with a bold header explaining my mistake.
He is a strange loop.
Dialectician. Archology.
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