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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 giraffe_lady »

It's kind of amazing that we've created a world where it's plausible a lot of our jobs could become automated and this is a bad thing. We really fucked up lol.

Anyway I don't have any other economically valuable skills and I'm not willing to go back to cooking. I'd try to join a monastery if any would have me. If not I'll just be homeless again until the people who still have jobs finally work up the courage to execute those without.

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

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Post by bradly »

rybosworld wrote: post #34
bradly wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

I used DALL·E 2. I've had better success with it over Stable Diffusion. Prompt was something like "Create a vector logo for a woodworking site with a handplane and the words Burn Box Woodworking" For some reason it can never get the text correct, but it gave my a good enough logo to clean up in Photoshop.

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

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Post by jobs_throwaway »

adamsmith143 wrote: post #32
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If every job of IT-Security is obsolete (including exploit dev, reverse engineering, pentesting) I would prefer a job in drug discovery preferably as a bioinformatician.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.

I'll bet you $20 to a charity of your choice that in 10 years human bioinformaticians are still employed in drug discovery

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

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Post by the_only_law »

animuchan wrote: post #42

Security researcher, probably. Once AI takes over any significant part of the software development field, I anticipate a lot of demand for audit, partly because the AI can't be held accountable for security breaches in any meaningful way.

God if I had the patience I’d love to do security research.

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

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Post by courgette »

ChintanGhate wrote: post #17
skyyler wrote: post #12

People keep telling me that I should be doing food professionally, so I'd probably make delicious food and sell it at a reasonable price.

Same! would open a small patisserie.

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

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

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Post by Havoc »

Collect UBI presumably. If my role gets AI'd then presumably so has the vast majority of humanity.

In a field that is supposedly easy to automate (accounting) but senior enough that I'm essentially just doing crisis management on novel situations and project management.

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