I saw no mention of trust funds, or anything specific about art majors or history majors in that article.
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I inferred it
because i want more Coogs on Wall Street
You think trust fund babies need high paying jobs? That’s why they are all art majors.
I think “imagined” is the better word for what you did.
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Here’s a list Microsoft made of the top 40 jobs that is safe from AI.
And here’s a list of the top 40 that is most likely to be replaced.
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I’m sure computers and printers use more electricity than pen and paper too. Let’s get back to manual book keeping to save electricity!
I’m always telling the kids, fast track your embalming career
Even before AI, it’s a lucrative business to be in. Its one thing I hate dealing with.
My only question, is our grid able to keep up with the demand?
No it’s not.
Neither is the necessary energy demand needing to power both AI/Data Centers.
AI and Data Centers are some of the highest emitting sectors right now
Of course it is. We’re in a capitalist society. If there’s demand, they’ll make it. Plus, I believe that Wymomic isn’t an independent system, like Texas is.
Historians listed as one of the more likely to be replaced is a scary thought considering how bad AI is at sorting factual from random info on the internet from where it would grab its data.
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I’m okay with powering AI as we learn about what it can actually do.
Okay with electricity usage for legit data centers. Not okay with electricity
used for crypto crap data centers.
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I said nothing about crypto
Data centers, much of which is serving AI such as ChatGPT, is incredibly energy intensive and results in major carbon emissions
If we continue to emit CO2 at the rate we our going, even just from data centers, then you’re looking at major problems in the future
There’s a reason tech companies are investing in nuclear energy just for data centers, because they know that fossil fuels are not sustainable to power data centers
Reading the actual study, the methodology’s real close to a WAG. It basically boils down to counting the percentage of job tasks (extremely broadly defined) that are relevant to the role that people currently use Microsoft Copilot for. Whether a job task appears in a conversation and whether it was performed successfully are both classified with AI. A student using copilot to cheat on their Algos homework is, from the perspective of this study, successfully performing the same task (programming) as a web dev or a database architect.
A couple of other quick notes:
- The study is very careful (contrary to the breathless media coverage surrounding it) to be clear that it’s predicting whether a job will be impacted, and goes to great lengths to stress that impact does not mean replacement. The provided example is that ATMs impacted bank tellers, but actually led to an increase in the number of teller positions.
- Even for relatively high-risk jobs, the absolute values mostly aren’t that high. If I’m only doing 75% or 80% of my job, I’m getting fired.
- Microsoft is very clear in the study that they’re talking exclusively about LLMs; this means that basically any job that doesn’t involve typing into a computer all day is going to be treated as safe, even when it might be threatened by other fields of AI (like truck drivers.)
In general, the article is non-falsifiable and mostly built on vibes. I’m extremely skeptical of its findings.
Everything surrounding AI right now is speculative. It’s really amplified by the investment / shareholder class.
AI will absolutely threaten jobs that don’t involve real decision making.
As far as drafting emails, putting PowerPoints togetherc drafting long word documents, etc… which will all still need human review, will be the jobs that are threatened
There is nothing speculative about AI, it’s built into the most popular OS in the world (PCs), the most popular browser (Chrome), the most popular mobile phone (Android). Not to mention Apple, and the myriad of AI companies that are being used by general businesses. The tipping point is past us. Get ready for the new world. Everyone is using it. Whether they want to or not. I’m surprised you didn’t call AI racist.