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AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

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Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

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I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

"Instead of using a motor vehicle, I will deliver all packages by hand"

I mean, yea, in places it would succeed as a boutique business, but you're not building the next Amazon that way either.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#22

I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

You’re an inspiration. I’m going to open an accounting firm and refuse to use calculators.

How often are calculators confidently wrong?

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#23

I'm not necessarily concerned that I will be entirely without a job because of AI. What I am concerned with is that the aspects of my job that I derive pleasure from will be replaced by AI.

So far (super early days, I know) the main thing I've used AI for at work is to write tests for code I'm working on. I get to do the fun bit, solving the problem space, and the AI gets to do the tedious bit (and do it faster than I would). I'm liking at least that level of AI integration.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#24

I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

Will you use a spellchecker when you send out emails about your company? How about doing research with a regular search engine?

"Refusing to use AI" doesn't make sense to me as a blanket policy. If you're going to make that commitment - to yourself or to anyone else - you'll need to be a lot more precise in what you actually mean by that.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#25

I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

The human touch is (often) an advantage. Often, because I don't actually want to go into a bank branch and interact with a teller for the most part.

However, I expect that quality human touch will increasingly be a premium service for those willing to pay more. Which is of course a valid business model of which there are many examples.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#26

I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

> Having the human touch will be an advantage, not a disadvantage.

Maybe if you re selling high-end coffee or leather bags for status. That's the fashion industry

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#27

I completely disagree. I'm building a business, and this business will be based on excellent software and excellent support for that software. I will refuse to use AI. But instead of AI users taking my job, I'm sure that refusing to use AI will become my differentiator as every AI user becomes more and more like each other. You may think that good AI users will not become so bland, but they will. Human laziness will…

AI driven business will be cheaper, and faster. The "better" factor will be a case by case situation. One could argue that your competitor combined with their skills, expertise, AND AI would have a market advantage over you.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#28
It's a timescale, like all technological progress. Or even evolution.

So you're working in a games development studio as a visual artist.

At first you're producing renderings in Blender or whatever.

Then, AI is able to generate three-dimensional meshes for you. You are in the loop, deciding that these meshes are suitable, which textures work, which are the best, designing the prompts, etc. This is 3D midjourney.

At this point, you're now able to produce far more more quickly and it's likely that fewer artists are required within your company.

Later, AI is able to more accurately decide which models will be preferred by the higher ups, or by the playerbase, better than you are as an artist. The AI has now replaced you as an artist. The software team or management simply ask the AI - "please produce me a set of fantasy character models for my game, with these characteristics". This is essentially GPT mixed with 3D midjourney.

I'd say we're not far off, currently, from this point.

Beyond that, perhaps the AI is then able to produce game rules, visual imagery, game engines etc than your company. The prompt "produce a doom clone with portals" results in a higher quality product than a team of humans working on it.

We don't quite have that yet.

Beyond that, the AI may be able to determine which games will be valued by the market and thus what is worth spending effort on. It could end up outcompeting all game studios.

Move further and it may produce something which just up-ends the game industry entirely by producing a product which gamers prefer to spend their time on.

I don't think that people quite grok the idea of what human-level or beyond AI actually is. By definition superhuman AI is more able than you are. The question is whether we will actually end up with it; that it will outcompete us if we create it is tautological.

Re: AI won't steal your job, people leveraging AI will

#30
post #4

Unless we expect a grassroots AI luddite movement, this is hair splitting.

With the cost of living in the US being completely out of control, and the potential for AI to gut wages in a number of high paid areas, why are we not expecting a new luddite movement?

Or is this another case of not understanding why the luddites broke the machines in the first place?

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