Are you ready for AI?

[Robert W]

Good old AI .... I use it daily. How good is it? Will you make errors using AI? This great human being addresses it and more. This woman is a daily content creator and has excellent topics. Try watching her on YouTube and see how you think she does.

 

[Quasar44]

Not really intelligent or Self Aware-
Its just raw computer power.

 

[Quasar44]

I doubt we will see any REAL true awareness until later this decade.
Its a shame really, as I would love to buy a fully aware Robot

 

[sparky]

Will we loose jobs to AI?
~S~
AI Overview



Yes, AI is already leading to job losses and is expected to displace 6%–7% of U.S. workers in the next decade. While some experts predict massive, long-term disruption, the immediate trend is "surgical" reductions—using AI for automation to shrink teams, affecting white-collar and entry-level positions.
J.P. Morgan Private Bank +2
Key Impacts and Data as of 2026

• Active Job Loss: AI accounted for over 21,000 job cuts in April 2026 alone, comprising 26% of all layoffs reported that month.
• The "Replacement" Shift: Companies are increasingly replacing human labor with automated workflows, notably in the tech sector.
• Entry-Level Vulnerability:
  AI is causing significant disruption for fresh graduates, who are facing a 16% reduction in salary and longer job searches, especially in fields highly exposed to AI.
  • Job Reshaping: Rather than total job disappearance, many workers are experiencing "augmentation," where AI reduces the need for as many team members, such as a company cutting 40% of its staff because smaller teams can do more with AI.
    

Industries Most Affected

• Technology & Software: Companies like Coinbase and Cloudflare have utilized AI to change operational structure, reducing staff needs.
• Administrative & Clerical: Routine white-collar tasks are highly susceptible to automation.
• Manufacturing: Over 1.7 million manufacturing jobs have already been affected by automation and AI since 2000.
  
  
  J.P. Morgan Private Bank +3

Future Outlook
While some studies suggest a "moderate" impact with slow implementation, others, including researchers at Anthropic, warn that up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be eliminated within five years. Workers displaced by AI often face longer job hunts and lower wages upon re-employment.

J.P. Morgan Private Bank +1

 

[shockedcanadian]

Good old AI .... I use it daily. How good is it? Will you make errors using AI? This great human being addresses it and more. This woman is a daily content creator and has excellent topics. Try watching her on YouTube and see how you think she does.

No one is ready.

There will be a day that A.I will take us over in some concerted and organized manner which will catch our species by surprise.

It will be bloody, more broad, more vicious and perhaps more final than any in history. Just as we were worried that nukes would end civilization, it may be an invention we make that controls and ends it via those nukes.

Surveillance will be perfect and in the control of A.I. Advanced drones will end the life of a specific person without failure or much to prevent it.

When I first learned of Reinforcement Learning for A.I I knew I was learning the most exciting and amazing subject, but also the subject that will lead eventually to our demise.

We cannot stop it, the race is on. The question ultimately which must be answered is "will our humanity prevent it"?

For as bad as Russia was viewed, the extremist Marxists in China are far greater a threat with this technology

 

[sparky]

Surveillance will be perfect and in the control of A.I. Advanced drones will end the life of a specific person without failure or much to prevent it.

~S~

 

[The Duke]

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~S~

 

[toobfreak]

Good old AI .... I use it daily. How good is it?

Screw AI, it is just adding to the further depersonalization of humanity. Customer service is already bad enough. There is no customer service, now the customer serves the business. And they expect you to carry your own computer system and phone company around with you now because you must be ready to answer their call out of the blue when they call you back otherwise, they've met their legal requirement you are just shit out of luck.

Called my TV company today because I was having some issue with my streaming service that had spread into the operation of my TV, my ability to even access or select my inputs to my TV, and all I got was a damned automated voice that began asking me for things I did not even know what they were talking about, and you can't ask a machine for clarification, so it finally asked me to try something involved, hard to get to, take time to figure out, across the room, and it said it would wait while I did this, so I was gone for about a minute or two, pretty good considering, and I finally get back to the telephone to find out that

THE SYSTEM HAD JUST HUNG UP ON ME because machines don't really comprehend, they are just a set of instructions.

Screw machine intelligence.

 

[Robert W]

No one is ready.

There will be a day that A.I will take us over in some concerted and organized manner which will catch our species by surprise.

It will be bloody, more broad, more vicious and perhaps more final than any in history. Just as we were worried that nukes would end civilization, it may be an invention we make that controls and ends it via those nukes.

Surveillance will be perfect and in the control of A.I. Advanced drones will end the life of a specific person without failure or much to prevent it.

When I first learned of Reinforcement Learning for A.I I knew I was learning the most exciting and amazing subject, but also the subject that will lead eventually to our demise.

We cannot stop it, the race is on. The question ultimately which must be answered is "will our humanity prevent it"?

For as bad as Russia was viewed, the extremist Marxists in China are far greater a threat with this technology

You are a great poster and it shocked me to read your posting.
This reminds me of the scares we all endured just ahead of the year 2,000

Supposedly clocks would stop, computers would lock up and the monster we owned in our own home would eat us for lunch.
You must recall those days.

 

[Robert W]

Screw AI, it is just adding to the further depersonalization of humanity. Customer service is already bad enough. There is no customer service, now the customer serves the business. And they expect you to carry your own computer system and phone company around with you now because you must be ready to answer their call out of the blue when they call you back otherwise, they've met their legal requirement you are just shit out of luck.

Called my TV company today because I was having some issue with my streaming service that had spread into the operation of my TV, my ability to even access or select my inputs to my TV, and all I got was a damned automated voice that began asking me for things I did not even know what they were talking about, and you can't ask a machine for clarification, so it finally asked me to try something involved, hard to get to, take time to figure out, across the room, and it said it would wait while I did this, so I was gone for about a minute or two, pretty good considering, and I finally get back to the telephone to find out that

THE SYSTEM HAD JUST HUNG UP ON ME because machines don't really comprehend, they are just a set of instructions.

Screw machine intelligence.

I have had that happen so many times, I lost count. It is really pissing me off too.

 

[shockedcanadian]

You are a great poster and it shocked me to read your posting.
This reminds me of the scares we all endured just ahead of the year 2,000

Supposedly clocks would stop, computers would lock up and the monster we owned in our own home would eat us for lunch.
You must recall those days.

That was child's play compared to the technology today and in the distant future. The worst anyone feared at that time was an elevator crashing or issues with plane navigation, air traffic control, databases erasing or malfunctioning etc.

Very bad outcomes yes, not death to all of humanity and certainly not intentional.

We are heading into a time of great promise but also great risk, especially socially. The worst part is the poor planning to this point. Imagine flooding your nation with low wage immigrants for instance when many jobs are going to be replaced.

Ultimately though, this is going to boil down to war from drones, robots and A.I. These weapons can be hacked or even achieve autonomy. It just takes a line of code or two that was designed to improve their learning which becomes code which drives their survival. This survival will be achieved at all costs.

There was an A.I program that was instructed to scan a sensitive program and ensure it was impenetrable to hacking or external viruses. It solved the problem by wiping the programs code and making it inoperable. You see, it achieved its goal, impossible to harm the software when it is wiped away.

I hope they had backup. Our species does not.

 

[toobfreak]

I have had that happen so many times, I lost count. It is really pissing me off too.

I cuss at the machines, insult them, tell them off, tell them they an idiot POS.

I hope someone records and plays back the audio.

Honestly, I would expect better help from their customer support line if they were hiring 8 year olds.

 

[my2¢]

My sons call upon its use in their work.

I'm retired and can't think of any need to be ready, other than if I want to see King Kong climb our local water tower.

 

[Muhammed]

I like using AI to debunk my assumptions.

 

[The Duke]

Screw AI, it is just adding to the further depersonalization of humanity. Customer service is already bad enough. There is no customer service, now the customer serves the business. And they expect you to carry your own computer system and phone company around with you now because you must be ready to answer their call out of the blue when they call you back otherwise, they've met their legal requirement you are just shit out of luck.

Called my TV company today because I was having some issue with my streaming service that had spread into the operation of my TV, my ability to even access or select my inputs to my TV, and all I got was a damned automated voice that began asking me for things I did not even know what they were talking about, and you can't ask a machine for clarification, so it finally asked me to try something involved, hard to get to, take time to figure out, across the room, and it said it would wait while I did this, so I was gone for about a minute or two, pretty good considering, and I finally get back to the telephone to find out that

THE SYSTEM HAD JUST HUNG UP ON ME because machines don't really comprehend, they are just a set of instructions.

Screw machine intelligence.

 

[luiza]

Will we loose jobs to AI?
~S~
AI Overview



Yes, AI is already leading to job losses and is expected to displace 6%–7% of U.S. workers in the next decade. While some experts predict massive, long-term disruption, the immediate trend is "surgical" reductions—using AI for automation to shrink teams, affecting white-collar and entry-level positions.
J.P. Morgan Private Bank +2
Key Impacts and Data as of 2026

• Active Job Loss: AI accounted for over 21,000 job cuts in April 2026 alone, comprising 26% of all layoffs reported that month.
• The "Replacement" Shift: Companies are increasingly replacing human labor with automated workflows, notably in the tech sector.
• Entry-Level Vulnerability:
  AI is causing significant disruption for fresh graduates, who are facing a 16% reduction in salary and longer job searches, especially in fields highly exposed to AI.
  • Job Reshaping: Rather than total job disappearance, many workers are experiencing "augmentation," where AI reduces the need for as many team members, such as a company cutting 40% of its staff because smaller teams can do more with AI.

Industries Most Affected

• Technology & Software: Companies like Coinbase and Cloudflare have utilized AI to change operational structure, reducing staff needs.
• Administrative & Clerical: Routine white-collar tasks are highly susceptible to automation.
• Manufacturing: Over 1.7 million manufacturing jobs have already been affected by automation and AI since 2000.
  
  
  J.P. Morgan Private Bank +3

Future Outlook
While some studies suggest a "moderate" impact with slow implementation, others, including researchers at Anthropic, warn that up to half of all entry-level white-collar jobs could be eliminated within five years. Workers displaced by AI often face longer job hunts and lower wages upon re-employment.

J.P. Morgan Private Bank +1

This problem of getting rid of a few billion Munchers becomes more and more important .

I feel sorry for those who are responsible for De-population projects .
It’s very difficult to set up a global operation that cannot be detected before it is too late to stop .
Let alone managing it and clearing up the mess —— mostly bodies .
Then you have the job of controlling the mob once they finally realise what is happening .

I guess another but really deadly virus is first choice .
But using Sound / Vibration is an interesting development area .

 

[sparky]

THE SYSTEM HAD JUST HUNG UP ON ME because machines don't really comprehend, they are just a set of instructions.

I cuss at the machines, insult them, tell them off, tell them they an idiot POS.

I ask what they're wearing......does the trick every time.....

Then you have the job of controlling the mob once they finally realise what is happening .

~S~

 

[luiza]

I ask what they're wearing......does the trick every time.....

Indeed .

But recent calculations suggest that you can create a "revolution" based on a 5% initial driving force .
That means that you only have to awaken ca.3-4% of Munchers from their sleep .

I suspect that most Intelligence operators work on those types of figures when planning Insert Operations and Infiltration .

 

[toobfreak]

I like using AI to debunk my assumptions.

What about your conclusions? You mean you trust a machine more than your own judgement and decisions?

 

[toobfreak]

Have you noticed it? No matter who you call or when you call, EVERYONE is currently experiencing higher call volumes than usual. It never fails.

You see, it used to be that companies had staff manning CSR lines and they would figure out the number of calls coming in per time and day and have a staff there to deal with it. Sometimes you might wait a couple minutes to get a person or that person might sit free a few minutes before getting a call. Dear God, that was waste having someone sit idle for even a second.

So they convinced everyone to buy cellphones, told them they wanted and needed one and even steered apps so that you NEEDED a cellphone--- now you presumably carry your own phone company around in your pocket now and they realized better to have you wait for them than their waiting for you.

So now, wait times to reach support that used to be seconds to 1-2 minutes vary from 5-10 minutes to 20 minutes to even their calling you back in 1-3 days and by gum, you better be free, available and ready for that call whenever, no matter what the caller ID says or whether you are sitting on the crapper.

Now they use machines at all cost programmed to deal with most common needs so that you don't tie anyone up at all. Instead of a team of customer support, now they might have one person and when you call, you wait until that person is free or free to call you back, hours or days later.

And if they miss you, they will never try again. They have better things to do than wait on customers.

The savings are incredible because basically, they've eliminated a major department, worse, they have in effect shifted a lot of the expense onto your shoulders; companies now expect, depend and rely on you owning a cellphone, usually needing texting too.

You will also note that cust. service tends to be better with private companies whom might lose your business and buy your product off someone else if too pissed off, vs. public companies like utilities, gov. agencies, etc., where they are a monopoly and like their cust. service or not, you are STUCK dealing with them.

Bottom line is that customer satisfaction is a low concern to them and they want to condition customers to getting used to and accepting suck-ass cust. support, even better, they try to steer you only their website and go hunt for your own answers and solutions. Now you need internet service and a computer too.