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Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

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Post by more_corn » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 3:41 PM UTC

de_nied wrote: post #86

ldoughty wrote: post #11

Top picks: Game development -- AI will eventually be guidable to write code, but it likely won't have "imagination" in the next decade (and I am not worried about my finances after that) Beer making -- Similarly, AI likely won't understand taste for quite some time Woodworking -- When everything is mass produced by automation, I suspect people will want unique, custom, hand-made things more. Edit: Fix format, clarify…

All your top picks have "innovation as a requirement for success" in common. AI is meant to reproduce outcomes, which means that innovation isn't something an AI can do. Or can it?

Define innovation. AI can basically follow any prompt for writing or visual imagery.

If you can have the idea it can generate the output. You can probably prompt it to have ideas too.

Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

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Post by jkmcf » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 5:25 PM UTC

throwaway675309 wrote: post #88

jobs_throwaway wrote: post #39

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Programmers tend to have a lot of free time. You'd be hard-pressed to find a hobby that isn't popular among programmers

Anecdotally but I find the following hobbies weirdly overly represented in IT: 1. Micro brew or craft brewing of some kind, Or at the very least an obsession with beer 2. Swing dancing 3. Frisbee golf 4. Cooking As an engineer myself my hobbies don't intersect unfortunately: 1. Juggling and card manipulation 2. Sparta running training 3. Piano composition 4. Aviation

You forgot Whiske?y. One I don’t understand at all!

Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

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Post by courgette » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

giraffe_lady wrote: post #61

courgette wrote: post #53

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Yeah, growing up, my understanding of “the plan” that we would end up writing poetry and dance in farandoles in orchards while the machines slaves away our work. That plan got cancelled I think.

Instead we made machines to write poetry so we can have more time for work.

I gate how right and to the point you are. I should ask GPT3 to make a haiku about it.

Re: Ask HN: What career would you switch into if AI ate your profession?

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Post by courgette » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 8:45 PM UTC

thorin wrote: post #63

courgette wrote: post #47

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Please do, the US has such a lack of patisseries and boulangeries ( sorry to assume your position )

It must be really hard work being a baker, it's very labour intensive and you sell each item pretty cheaply. I guess it's hard to make money. I'm always so happy in France to see every village having it's own bakery which is always busy. Even in the UK we have a great scene in village bakeries making cakes, bread and sausage rolls and pies and pasties. It's one of the finer things in life :-)

Exactly, we like to jokes that it was set us apart from the barbarian.

A lot of excellent memory are associated with bakery. Late at night / super early. Bringing croissant to a new girl that spend the night. Tea with grandma…. You name it.

And joke aside, in France a village goes to another category when the last boulangerie close.

Their is bread in the US, you find good bakery. But the posh and exclusive aspect of it ruins it for me. I’m not driving 15min to buy a 4$ baguettes.

And yes. It’s a taxing job. You are out of synch with normal people. Right now baker are suffering greatly from increased energy prices. I hope we put them on full life support of cash if needed. That’s worth it.