AI development

[shoshi]

Should I go into AI development? I am a software engineer but AI may make me obsolete I fear. Is AI development the future?

 

[Road Runner]

I say do whatever makes you happy.

 

[lennypartiv]

Should I go into AI development?

Please do. The one thing America really needs is a real RoboCop.

 

[fncceo]

Should I go into AI development? I am a software engineer but AI may make me obsolete I fear. Is AI development the future?

Personally, I would be stoked to be responsible for creating the code that leads to Skynet and terminators.

 

[shoshi]

I don’t know what the future holds but I fear AI will make me obsolete one day. So maybe I should change from software engineering to AI engineering. Or maybe I am being paranoid about AI replacing me?

 

[Road Runner]

Or maybe I am being paranoid about AI replacing me?

Don't worry, you're not.

 

[JohnDB]

Should I go into AI development? I am a software engineer but AI may make me obsolete I fear. Is AI development the future?

Nope....
Database management.

AI is worthless without a good database to pull information from. And the quality of that information is crucial.

 

[alang1216]

Should I go into AI development? I am a software engineer but AI may make me obsolete I fear. Is AI development the future?

You can either ride the wave or be swamped by it. AI will eventually rule, you might as well be on the winning side.

 

[justoffal]

Should I go into AI development? I am a software engineer but AI may make me obsolete I fear. Is AI development the future?

It will always need human oversight. AI is the tool not the builder.... Like a handheld calculator enables an engineer to buzz through a calculation at many times the speed of the old slide rule guys.

Jo

 

[justoffal]

You can either ride the wave or be swamped by it. AI will eventually rule, you might as well be on the winning side.

No stopping it now....I think of it as the reintroduction of the hand held calculator only on an exponentially greater scale. There is ultimately benefit for all but admittedly a small period of trepidation up front.

 

[alang1216]

No stopping it now....I think of it as the reintroduction of the hand held calculator only on an exponentially greater scale. There is ultimately benefit for all but admittedly a small period of trepidation up front.

Every technical leap brought misery to some but benefits to most.

 

[justoffal]

Every technical leap brought misery to some but benefits to most.

Yeah....I have to admit this is a leap unlike any before it.
This one is on a jet pack.
Once it's loose....things will happen faster than we can comprehend. I'm a little nervous but mostly I'm excited.

 

[alang1216]

Yeah....I have to admit this is a leap unlike any before it.
This one is on a jet pack.
Once it's loose....things will happen faster than we can comprehend. I'm a little nervous but mostly I'm excited.

The technological changes will be immense but the societal ones will be even greater. What happens when Elon Musk builds a factory with no workers? How do the majority of people live in a world without jobs? We've been heading that way for years and it tends to make people either super rich or super poor. Unions built a middle class from factory workers but unions are fading away.

 

[justoffal]

The technological changes will be immense but the societal ones will be even greater. What happens when Elon Musk builds a factory with no workers? How do the majority of people live in a world without jobs? We've been heading that way for years and it tends to make people either super rich or super poor. Unions built a middle class from factory workers but unions are fading away.

It's my belief that AI will create more jobs. Case in point is the advent of the marvelous little contraption we call the hand held calculator. It literally dissolved tens of thousands of man hour needs but as a result it also made much more complex engineering feats possible on a better timescsle which then gave rise to a whole new genre of jobs. I think we will see similar results with AI.

 

[WinterBorn]

The technological changes will be immense but the societal ones will be even greater. What happens when Elon Musk builds a factory with no workers? How do the majority of people live in a world without jobs? We've been heading that way for years and it tends to make people either super rich or super poor. Unions built a middle class from factory workers but unions are fading away.

AI will, undoubtedly, cause huge changes in our world. And one of those changes is the ability to produce the same amount of goods with far fewer workers.

Eventually, the technology will cause so many jobs to be lost that it will introduce socialism to the US. There will be some sort of basic subsistence pay for everyone.

With fewer jobs and higher costs, something will have to happen or the entire house of cards will collapse.

 

[JohnDB]

AI will, undoubtedly, cause huge changes in our world. And one of those changes is the ability to produce the same amount of goods with far fewer workers.

Eventually, the technology will cause so many jobs to be lost that it will introduce socialism to the US. There will be some sort of basic subsistence pay for everyone.

With fewer jobs and higher costs, something will have to happen or the entire house of cards will collapse.

Not really....no more than robots do today.

AI is really a misnomer. The answers are still given to the computer in the database. These databases are huge and managed effectively....but still there is no creativity or independent thinking within the computers.

If you corrupt the databases with slanted facts....the "AI" is not smart enough to figure out who is lying and how.

 

[WinterBorn]

Not really....no more than robots do today.

AI is really a misnomer. The answers are still given to the computer in the database. These databases are huge and managed effectively....but still there is no creativity or independent thinking within the computers.

If you corrupt the databases with slanted facts....the "AI" is not smart enough to figure out who is lying and how.

There will be technologies that will make the workplace safer, more efficient and more profitable. But it will also cut the number of workers needed. This is not new. For all the complaints about moving jobs overseas, there have been far more jobs lost to technology.

 

[alang1216]

It's my belief that AI will create more jobs. Case in point is the advent of the marvelous little contraption we call the hand held calculator. It literally dissolved tens of thousands of man hour needs but as a result it also made much more complex engineering feats possible on a better timescsle which then gave rise to a whole new genre of jobs. I think we will see similar results with AI.

I don't doubt that happened but I see AI as more fundamental. A calculator is a tool, like a hammer, to help you do a job, AI will do the job for you. My son was planning a trip to Germany and was wondering what to do and see each day. He told ChatGPT which cities he was going to and some things he enjoyed doing. Instantly he got a detailed itinerary, as good or better than a travel agent would compile. In the near future, that bot might also book airline tix, hotels, and show tix for him. The travel industry will never be the same. Lawyers will be next on the chopping block.

 

[justoffal]

I don't doubt that happened but I see AI as more fundamental. A calculator is a tool, like a hammer, to help you do a job, AI will do the job for you. My son was planning a trip to Germany and was wondering what to do and see each day. He told ChatGPT which cities he was going to and some things he enjoyed doing. Instantly he got a detailed itinerary, as good or better than a travel agent would compile. In the near future, that bot might also book airline tix, hotels, and show tix for him. The travel industry will never be the same. Lawyers will be next on the chopping block.

I understand what you're getting at....

 

[alang1216]

AI will, undoubtedly, cause huge changes in our world. And one of those changes is the ability to produce the same amount of goods with far fewer workers.

Eventually, the technology will cause so many jobs to be lost that it will introduce socialism to the US. There will be some sort of basic subsistence pay for everyone.

With fewer jobs and higher costs, something will have to happen or the entire house of cards will collapse.

Don't know about socialism but the gov't might offer universal healthcare, and mandate no employee can work more than 20 hours a week. That would double the available jobs.