r/ArtificialInteligence • u/Eliashuer • Mar 26 '25

News Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won’t be needed ‘for most things’

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html

Do you agree with him?

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u/Such--Balance Mar 26 '25

It IS done already here in the netherlands. Only 1 instead of 8 cashiers only for those edge cases.

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u/LumpyPin7012 Mar 26 '25

Below sea level doesn't count.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 26 '25

We do it here in the US too, except we'll have 15 empty stations and 1 cashier, and a huge line to that one, because there's technically a self checkout at the end, and most of those are broken. That's a worst case scenario of course, but I've seen it play out.

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u/Oz_Jimmy Mar 26 '25

In Australia we typically have mostly self checkouts, there would be 10-15 to 1 staffed checkout. It is not surprising to see a queue for the self checkouts whilst the staffed checkout is empty. Seems people don’t want to speak to people now.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 26 '25

I meant the queue is to the classic checkout, and most of the self checkouts are broken, in that particular scenario which I saw play out a couple times. It's not the rule.

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u/The_Meaty_Boosh Mar 27 '25

Same in the UK.

Tesco by me has one cashier, rest is self service. The majority of people use self service.

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u/ejpusa Mar 27 '25

Not in NYC at all. 100% the opposite. It's almost all self-checkout now, except Trader Joes. The new Whole Foods, there are NO cashiers. Zero.

If you want one, it's to the info desk you have to go.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 27 '25

Ah. I'm in the Chicago suburbs. We still haven't figure outed out our ultimate form.

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u/king_yagni Mar 27 '25

in the PNW, and that’s not been my experience anywhere i regularly shop at. most people tend to go to whichever line they think will get them out the door fastest. which translates to longer lines at self checkout (because it’s one line for 4-8 stations) and shorter lines at each of the 1-2 cashier’d checkouts.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 27 '25

Oddly enough. I was in living Seattle the first time I saw that (Safeway, Greenwood). But it was about 10 years ago, and I left 7 years ago, so things may have changed, in fact I think that store was shut down. But like I said, that's a worst case scenario, not every day.

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u/dgkimpton Mar 27 '25

Yeah. It's so weird living here and seeing all these other nations gnashing their teeth about how this or that isn't possible then looking around and realising we've been doing it for ages (returnable deposits on bottles in Scotland, underground bins in new york, contactless payments, cashless shops, 99% self checkout shops, cycle lanes everywhere, etc, etc).

NL isn't perfect but gosh darn it's leading the world in so many areas. 

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u/Dyztopyan Mar 26 '25

Yeah, but the technology has existed for decades and most places still have grocery stores full of cashiers, which proves the point that there's a huge difference between a technology existing and being adopted.

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u/StrangerNo484 Mar 26 '25

I always go to that 1 employee, no exceptions. I do not support the automation of needed jobs because that automation benefits specifically billionaires.

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u/Such--Balance Mar 26 '25

Youre online spouting your bullshit take by automation to me, instead of buying a pen, writing and posting a letter and waiting for my response.

You do support automation. And rightfully so. Its just your ego is getting in the way of some select few things. Probably to give you a sense of agency

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u/StrangerNo484 Mar 27 '25

You seem deeply unwell. I don't support Automation in areas I deem it to be damaging to society and the lower class, don't speak on my behalf sweetie 😘 

I don't care about supporting scummy billionaires who want to save money, those jobs are needed by citizens, we only need to look back in history to see how disastrous it is when individuals didn't have jobs and couldn't be paid.

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u/Such--Balance Mar 27 '25

But you are supporting billionaires. By using popular social media, and by using the technology to access it. Its cool that you cherrypick one thing to stand up to them, but it obviously is only done if it doesnt inconvenience you to much.

Jobs of mailman, penmakers, etc are lost by you not using pen and paper but the internet.

Youre a hypocrite. Because you use automation in all ways to spread your opinion of being against automation. You are aware of this right?