AI and its impact on employment
So I see this topic come up in other threads and thought it would be interesting to ask. With Google’s DeepMind beating a grand master Go player, and even teaching its self to “walk”... it’s becoming apparent AI is crossing a boundary from just picking from a list of predetermined paths, to actual self learning and deduction similar to humans. It’s been a topic voiced and even warned about by the likes of Elon Musk. The question is this... as AI improves to make basic decisions humans can make, do you think it will gain wide spread adoption in business? Who will it offset? How will that affect unemployment, and lastly how will that impact a capitalistic society in general? My opinion is that AI is going to be something that is going to force a major change to how our economy operates as this technology massively replaces the unskilled and even skilled labor force. To be honest, I am not pro Socialism, but I have my doubts Capitalism in its true form is compatible with AI tech in the market. There may be too many people unemployed by the paradigm shift, and may force us to rethink things. After all, AI is cheap, doesn’t complain, and doesn’t need health benefits. And most experts think we are 10 years or less away from this sort of AI... one viable for commercial use. So, what are your thoughts?
We need to start a mind shift in education and stop the dumb narrative that college isn’t important and that “trade schools” are sufficient. An AA degree should be the new diploma minimum and we need to make community college free, like public school.
Computer industry:21st century::auto industry:20th century IOW, what Banana posted. Governments will be creating bs jobs to keep people occupied...or instigating wars to help keep populations down (and munitions profits up)...maybe both? Probably water wars in next 50 years unless someone gets clever about that limited resource, but that's another discussion.
Well We replaces the data analyst on our team with a very small powershell script and PowerBI so it is defiantly possible. Also I am trying to replace myself with an AI right now. I’ll turn it on during work hours, and automate most of my tasks so I can play Zelda.
In 100 years the only thing humans will be useful for is energy