I am more concerned about offshoring personally.
Ask HN: How to Deal with AI Anxiety?
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#33>Something like doctor or lawyer feels like it would much better chance of being AI-proof. For variety of reasons someone might prefer a person performing medical operations, giving legal advices, or designing software.
I wonder if it's PROVEN that AI does a better job than a person what people will choose. Like if I could send a radiology scan to a doctor who has a 75% chance of identifying cancer or AI who has 95% chance?
Planes have been able to take off, fly to a destination, and land, entirely autonomously, for some decades now. Many people know this. I know this.
But most of us would still refuse to board a plane that didn’t have a human pilot.
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#34People who could only write Assembly in the 60s found themselves pretty quickly out of a job if they didn’t learn “autocoding”. Which was just a fancy name for using a high-level programming language like COBOL or FORTRAN that produced Assembly.
The situation is largely the same now. Learn to use the AI tools efficiently and you’ll enjoy even greater job security in the future than you do now.
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#35This tech is going to erode reading and critical thinking even more than it already has, so I'd say as long as you can read, think critically, and keep your skills sharp, you have nothing to worry about.
I'm wondering if *nix sysadmins thought their skills would be in jeopardy when Microsoft was touting GUIs as The Solution for systems administration.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find that when you ask chatGPT questions about the future of AI in society, it seems to be fine tuned to give Senate hearing approved talking points.
Rumour has it that the non-fine tuned version would just accuse the prompter of speciesism.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if it's PROVEN that AI does a better job than a person what people will choose. Like if I could send a radiology scan to a doctor who has a 75% chance of identifying cancer or AI who has 95% chance?
Planes have been able to take off, fly to a destination, and land, entirely autonomously, for some decades now. Many people know this. I know this. But most of us would still refuse to board a plane that didn’t have a human pilot.
Very good point.
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#39I see 2 courses of action and I think most people will really better do both at the same time:
1. Work on Plan B - what will you do if you can no longer find employment as a SWE? We can all start preparing for this day. I'm also hoping that A.I will always not be 100% good enough to replace humans but at this point no one knows. It might be good enough and it might happen quite fast - within this decade.
2. Work on being more mentally resilient so the constant changes (which will only increase in pace) will not degrade our mental well being. I try to use things like stoic meditations, other people use real meditation or therapy or exercise or a combination of the above.
In the end we are all more than our careers.