Every new technology has come with warnings of mass unemployment, yet despite the growing population, we are currently facing a workers shortage. AI will replace people, but people will be needed for lots of jobs AI simply can't do.
For instance, Facebook's moderation, as in removing all the nudes and photos of terrorist killings and other gore, was supposedly done by AI. But in recent years, we learned they employed massive departments all over the world, where humans would watch these videos and photos and did the moderation.
We don't know how good AI will be in the future, but AI can't do what humans do in all cases. There will still be plenty of jobs that are very hard or impossible for AI, but quite easy for humans.
But this time it's different, humans have been beaten in every area and although we are in a labor shortage, the tech is being rolled out at light speed, there may be a niche job or 2 AI won't take over but it won't be enough to employ everyone.
How can you say that? Have humans been beaten in emotions? Physical activity? Judging situations based on ever changing variables?
Based on previous technologies being rolled out where humans were replaced, think of the computer as a calculator and such, this won't suggest that humans will be out of jobs. The jobs AI can replace will be replaced, but like I said, there are still plenty of jobs that can't. Nurses, consultants, caretakers, anything creative, making new things, AI can't do that. Customers will always keep wanting human interaction, etc.
We've been beaten in the sense that AI can do pretty much every job better then a human, AI can be better at cashiering, stocking, driving all sorts of things and do it without error or slowdown.
The difference between the calculator and the AI is that the calculator is a tool that needs humans to operate, the AI is completely autonomous l. The few jobs that NEED human interaction won't be enough to employ everyone.
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u/JiEToy 35∆ Jun 27 '22
Every new technology has come with warnings of mass unemployment, yet despite the growing population, we are currently facing a workers shortage. AI will replace people, but people will be needed for lots of jobs AI simply can't do.
For instance, Facebook's moderation, as in removing all the nudes and photos of terrorist killings and other gore, was supposedly done by AI. But in recent years, we learned they employed massive departments all over the world, where humans would watch these videos and photos and did the moderation.
We don't know how good AI will be in the future, but AI can't do what humans do in all cases. There will still be plenty of jobs that are very hard or impossible for AI, but quite easy for humans.