Becoming a mason or going into private therapy practice
Guillotine maintenance.
Depends.
My main job it would be interesting. I mainly plan for organisations how to handle disasters. Not necessarily IT disasters but actual one - what happens if your hospital is on fire, your airline has hundreds of people stranded somewhere (yeah, we had a bad time recently), your muncipial water supply goes bad, the Russians actually come,etc.
If AI can do that on a level it replaces my staff and me…well…good for everyone else,because right now it’s a underdeveloped and rarely looked upon issue.
In my side job I am still working in my original trade as a critical care paramedic. Until AI can fully replace one there it will take a long time (but we see a lof of actually beneficial developments that makes the job insanely more easy and capable) and I am very likely retired by then. What is far more likely is that societies won’t be able to pay for proper healthcare anymore…and that would be “not replaced” technically, I guess.
Same as my retirement plan. Make billionaires afraid.
I’m not convinced that there’s enough training data for it to be good in my specialization anytime soon. And it certainly won’t be trusted for safety critical applications even if that were to happen.
That being said I’m very, very, glad to not be in CS or law where there is nearly endless data to train on.
Wander the American South West, having adventures like Kane in Kungfu.
If AI takes my job it’s already taken everyone else’s job. So non I guess.
Seriously though if it gets to that point, and I don’t think it will I think AI is overhyped, governments are going to have to either put up or get lynched.
I am confident it won’t take my job. I don’t have a backup plan.
the datacenters likely will cost AI to much to maintain before that happens.
I don’t believe that will happen permanently. I’m a Sysadmin currently working in client support I don’t think ai will drive around town and fix laptops for the clients bit if it ever does AI still needs servers to run on. Also something with Wood maybe?
Or like other IT jobs, there will be less admin as companies expect the workload for say 5 people can trim down to 2 pax with AI-assisted tools. But I’m not expert to say if that will really work.
On the other hand we asked an LLM last week how many full time employees it would take to manage everything we’re doing and the result was 6-8. We currently have more like 2.5 with 1.5 coming. So at least AI believes we need more rather than less employees.
Become a streamer
BORTLES!
“everything is brighter with a molotov cocktail” - i learned that today
Take the AI’s job. I can spout misinformation to morons too
Hey some of us have made a whole career of this and we didn’t need ai to do it
This must be why c-suites and investors are gung-ho on AI. It speaks the same vapid language lacking any true understanding and meaning. It is the Adam they made in their image.
You guys are getting paid?
Too late. Didn’t have time to prep backup plan, clients all went AI. Now I’m job hunting like a 15 years old trying to figure out what I can do with my skills now that everyone thinks they can be great at anything using Large lying models.
What did you do that all your clients went to AI?
My service cost money and chatgpt was free. They all took the person that was interfacing with the multiple linguists and put that person in charge of asking the translations to chatgpt.
They lost in quality, quality control, cultural fitness of the message, creativity. But none of them cared and they just started pasting texts into chatgpt.
It’s not just me either. Projects are multilingual so there can be dozens of translators working on a given project. We all tried to reason and explain why that was stupid as hell.
But money saved is money so they did it anyway.
Initially I tried looking for new clients but the once buzzing world of translation was a ghost town, no one was asking for translation services anymore.
Some people don’t do AI for money, there’s a subgroup that thinks they are helping by doing the prep work with AI so we can deliver to them faster . That’s easier to work with because they usually understand when we explain why it doesn’t help at all.
Honestly, just wait. This happened to a lot of us in 2002 and 2008. It sucks, but they’ll learn they can’t do everything with AI and they’ll SLOWLY hire people back. But it will take time.
job sites essentially made it very hard to find many jobs, i think because AI is being used in resume and screening by employers, its not getting any better. before that they were already doing something similar to AI to screen people out, AI just have more false positive, or if they made sure the AI would have denials.
