For those in tech, will AI crush the workforce?

[kudos]

Originally Posted by 2000cs

Musk (and others) say a time of plenty is coming and most work will be replaced by Ai and Robots. However he also says population decline is a huge problem and the death of any nation.

Plenty of people think that Ai and/or robotics will eliminate most or all work as we know it.

The people I know in software development think it is overhyped. So far, I’m seeing incremental search engine improvements, but I’m still going to an attorney for important documents, or litigation. And as much as I dislike them, I’ll still go to a doctor for medical needs.

A guy on X named Brian Rommelle (I think) says we have about 5000 days until the end of the transition.

No one explains how humanity works (politics or economics especially) without work. We are a competitive species accustomed to gathering and holding (hoarding) resources. The future forecasts from the Ai crowd do not account for that.

The big argument people should bring up when Musk goes on about his "time of plenty" nonsense and how "money won't be needed" is who is going to fund his companies with stock purchases and private equity? If money isn't needed than neither is the stock market.

[Maynard]

Perhaps the most dangerous mental fallacy is to equate great wealth with a sort of universal superiority - both moral and intellectual. I think Elon knows about as much about society as I do about computer chips (at least that is what I gather from these types of mind-roastingly naive comments).

[ezaircon4jc]

Have these people seen Wall·E?

[Car-Addicted]

Saw this the other day
THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT CALCULATOR
https://thegreatdisplacement.ai/

Interesting to play with unless it's your job on the block

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by Car-Addicted

From the news:
In 2025, tests by Palisade Research showed that advanced AI models, specifically OpenAI's o3, sometimes refused to shut down, with some instances involving the AI altering its own code to prevent deactivation. These models exhibited a "survival drive" to continue tasks, raising serious safety, control, and ethical concerns regarding AI autonomy and alignment.

Move along, nothing to see here.

2001: A Space Oddysey

[RockCrusher]

My crystal ball is blurry with regards to jobs but I see a big increase in electricity rates.

[XutvJet]

As I noted earlier in this thread, I'm an environmental consultant and as part of my job, I generate 30 to 50 page reports of sites we've reviewed. I get many reports from my international colleagues and often, there are weird word usage and grammar issues when it comes to what my US-based client expects to read. I imagine many of these reports are written in the native language and then the translate button is pushed. Reviewing these reports takes me a LONG time to get things consistent. I've tried to use CoPilot to conduct a review of the report for US English grammar and reporting consistency. It is utterly trash with its "review". Useless. Not even close to what I have to do and in many cases, it makes the report worse and also makes some hilarious assumptions/edits. I've also tried it with US reports written by US auditors and its review is terrible too, at least in terms of how the report needs to read for my client and legal and regulatory purposes.

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by XutvJet

As I noted earlier in this thread, I'm an environmental consultant and as part of my job, I generate 30 to 50 page reports of sites we've reviewed. I get many reports from my international colleagues and often, there are weird word usage and grammar issues when it comes to what my US-based client expects to read. I imagine many of these reports are written in the native language and then the translate button is pushed. Reviewing these reports takes me a LONG time to get things consistent. I've tried to use CoPilot to conduct a review of the report for US English grammar and reporting consistency. It is utterly trash with its "review". Useless. Not even close to what I have to do and in many cases, it makes the report worse and also makes some hilarious assumptions/edits. I've also tried it with US reports written by US auditors and its review is terrible too, at least in terms of how the report needs to read for my client and legal and regulatory purposes.

Has it been grounded in your companies approved reports, style rules, terminology ect? Has it been fine tuned on real before/after edits? Or is it just an off-the-shelf chat bot? The former would perform much better than the later.

That being said I'm not too familiar with co-pilot or how most large enterprises are setting up their systems.

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