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[Tiger337]

30 minutes ago, Screwball said:

I'm on the list, but I knew that already.  I don't know if they can adequately replace mathematicians and data scientists any time soon, but if they think they can, they will.   I hope to get through a couple more years and then be in position to retire if necessary.  AI has a lot of potential, but I know that it will be used so that the wealthy can get wealthier and short cuts will be made to eliminate as much labor as they can.  

Edited Monday at 06:40 PM by Tiger337

[gehringer_2]

28 minutes ago, Screwball said:

'Financial Advisor' I wonder about. I would guess people with enough means to managed will continue to afford themselves the luxury of a warm body to interact with. But maybe that will be a generational thing.

[oblong]

I think a lot of those are already in danger just as people become smarter and have access to more info.  I haven't used an airline booking agent since 2002, and that was a corporate booking thing thru American Express.  The company made us do it.

For some of it, I suspect it's similar to people thinking calculators and computers would get rid of engineers since it replaced slide rules.  No.  It was just a tool to help them be better.

[Screwball]

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I'm on the list, but I knew that already.  I don't know if they can adequately replace mathematicians and data scientists any time soon, but if they think they can, they will.   I hope to get through a couple more years and then be in position to retire if necessary.  AI has a lot of potential, but I know that it will be used so that the wealthy can get wealthier and short cuts will be made to eliminate as much labor as they can.  

The bold is the key.

Coming from someone who started making engineering drawings with paper, pencil, a mechanical arm, and a cheap calculator, to the highest 3D CAD systems in the world. Thanks to computers, the transition from paper to CAD changed the world. The days of football field size drafting rooms with hundreds of tables (and people) were replaced with AutoCad (went DOS 1992) at first, then the 3D stuff. Once it went digital, many jobs and support systems were lost. This will continue with AI.

We have the great things we have today due to the progression in this technology - we could draw some complex parts years ago with a pencil and mechanical arm (had to scale as well) - but nobody could make it. Today, with our CAD/CAM machines we can do incredible things. All about cost.

I bolded we. We isn't AI. That is the scary part.

What should scare the living **** out of all of us is what these inept corporate worms are cooking up to convince their corporate worm bosses this AI horse**** is going to make record profits for years to come and they will suck it up like a Hoover vacuum cleaner. Hey - look at the stock price and all the bonuses and these dickhead getting rich. What's not to like?

Then the whole ****house blows up because it was a scam from the start. Dot-com mania on roids (when it comes to the market). All driven by technical BS by arrogant greedy clueless assholes and an ignorant populous. AI can't replace people, and never will.

Crazy Teddy Kaczynski is laughing in his grave.

[Screwball]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

'Financial Advisor' I wonder about. I would guess people with enough means to managed will continue to afford themselves the luxury of a warm body to interact with. But maybe that will be a generational thing.

I wouldn't trust any of them either.

[romad1]

7 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

'Financial Advisor' I wonder about. I would guess people with enough means to managed will continue to afford themselves the luxury of a warm body to interact with. But maybe that will be a generational thing.

How in the f is historian at risk?  If you can write good history that people agree is well researched and sourced and explain it to people in a compelling way, possibly injecting your political biases (Feminist history, Marxist history, RW history) you can sell books.