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

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

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Post by bradly »

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…

> Woodworking -- When everything is mass produced by automation, I suspect people will want unique, custom, hand-made things more.

Funnily enough I’ve used AI in my woodworking to generate novel coffee table designs, write product descriptions for Etsy listings, and generate a logo.

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

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Post by adamsmith143 »

Run_DOS_Run wrote: post #22

If every job of IT-Security is obsolete (including exploit dev, reverse engineering, pentesting) I would prefer a job in drug discovery preferably as a bioinformatician. I can't believe AI is able to find cures against every kind of cancer (even if I wish).

>I would prefer a job in drug discovery preferably as a bioinformatician

AlphaFold already has you beat.

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

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Post by rybosworld »

bradly wrote: post #31
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…

> Woodworking -- When everything is mass produced by automation, I suspect people will want unique, custom, hand-made things more. Funnily enough I’ve used AI in my woodworking to generate novel coffee table designs, write product descriptions for Etsy listings, and generate a logo.

How did you generate a logo with AI?

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

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Post by jobs_throwaway »

curioussavage wrote: post #23
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…

Ha! So three very popular hobbies for programmers? I guess we’ll all all join you in those endeavors

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