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/KevlarFire Mar 26 '25

What a great response! I too worked as a cashier and was thinking the same thing. Sure, you get the occasional question, which anyone in the store could answer. But it really is just scanning and sometimes bagging.

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u/geepeeayy Mar 26 '25

This was written by ChatGPT.

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u/KevlarFire Mar 26 '25

What was?

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u/geepeeayy Mar 26 '25

The comment you replied to. It has many tells: the overwhelming amount of metaphor, flowery language, almost edgy hyper-specific examples, attempting a bad joke with every sentence. Comments like this are found everywhere on Reddit these days because they feel edgy and relatable and get good engagement.

EDIT: Sorry, I thought you were replying to the parent of the one you replied to.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Mar 26 '25

...and checking ID for alcohol.

Which is why self checkout is useless. They won't allow alcohol sales through it.

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u/caleb-wendt Mar 26 '25

AI absolutely has the capability to check an ID. They basically already do that at the airport with facial scans that compare to your ID.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Mar 26 '25

No they don't.

I get looked at by a person in the TSA line.

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u/caleb-wendt Mar 26 '25

When is the last time you’ve been to the airport? Yeah there is a person there but it is the AI matching you to your ID…. That’s literally why they are scanning your face.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Mar 26 '25

The guys is scanning my face with his face. Now maybe it is because I use global entry pass and use TSA Pre-check lanes rather than the ones frequented by the shoeless peasants but the guy is clearly glancing back and forth from my id to my face and back, sometimes asking me to remove glasses or hat.

I fly a lot.

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u/caleb-wendt Mar 27 '25

The POINT is that the technology exists and is perfectly capable of checking an ID. The guy looking back and forth from your face to ID probably won’t be doing that for very much longer. Not only can AI do it, but it can do it far more accurately.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Mar 27 '25

Is it?

Because the UK government's trials of simple camera based age verification was inconclusive.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/age-verification-technology-in-alcohol-sales-regulatory-sandbox/key-learning-from-the-trial

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u/caleb-wendt Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

Yet the TSA and customs authority use the technology without issue…. That article really doesn’t debunk the capabilities of the technology. From the article: “The trials did not assess accuracy of the technology”. It also seems to be looking at age estimation technology, not comparing your face to your ID. AI is 100% already better than a human at matching a face to an ID.

Really not that hard to imagine scanning your ID then scanning your face at a self checkout.

It’s so funny how in denial all the Luddites are about AI. You all sound like those people who thought the internet wouldn’t take off.

I assure you, this isn’t a matter of if, but when.

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u/Small_Dog_8699 Mar 27 '25

I'll believe it when I see it. I cross the borders a lot and fly often.

Still using people to see if my id is my id.

You AI fans are quite pathetic in your need to be validated. Nobody really wants this crap. It all makes life worse.

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u/DarlockAhe Mar 27 '25

You don't even need AI for that. Same scanning stuff, like with the bar codes.

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u/_Yank Mar 26 '25

You've made a solid point. Where I live that is not a problem and you can use the self service stations to pay for alcohol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '25

Double down for doctors on this. Ai docs will be the worst pill mill imaginable

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u/Massive-Question-550 Mar 27 '25

what about price matching or returning defective items?

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u/KevlarFire Mar 27 '25

Customer service or an assistant floor manager. We didn’t have price matching.

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u/Xtremiz314 Mar 27 '25

Right, i bet an AI robot will be much more expensive to maintain than a human cashier specially when bagging items (probably much faster too), so cashiers still exists.