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AI is about to change how you use computers

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Re: AI is about to change how you use computers

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The writing is on the wall. It's not right now, but it will be in my lifetime. What are some AI-proof(ish) industries we can jump into after software engineering is drastically reduced?

This type of sentiment is not valuable at all and overly pessimistic. Current AI tech is not very likely to replace work that requires a modicum of logical reasoning and the tech to do so has no known path forward as of now.

Replace? No. Highly reduce? Absolutely.

Re: AI is about to change how you use computers

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This is the Bill Gates who in May 2018 proclaimed that he would short Bitcoin if he could:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/bill-gates-i-would-short-bit...

Bitcoin has quadrupled since then.

One might want to take this into account when evaluating his ability to predict the future.

Re: AI is about to change how you use computers

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The writing is on the wall. It's not right now, but it will be in my lifetime. What are some AI-proof(ish) industries we can jump into after software engineering is drastically reduced?

I've heard that barista is AI proof. Because customers want a person to say "good morning".

Re: AI is about to change how you use computers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This type of sentiment is not valuable at all and overly pessimistic. Current AI tech is not very likely to replace work that requires a modicum of logical reasoning and the tech to do so has no known path forward as of now.

Replace? No. Highly reduce? Absolutely.

Are you currently functionally limited by your typing speed? No? You're probably fine. I'd take a team of juniors that have full autonomy to make informed decisions with some hand holding than a tool that has no logical reasoning and just spits out what the statistically average next thing to do is.

Re: AI is about to change how you use computers

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post #11

The writing is on the wall. It's not right now, but it will be in my lifetime. What are some AI-proof(ish) industries we can jump into after software engineering is drastically reduced?

There's always a need for grave diggers.

Demand is only going up
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