You’re a software engineer. You told me in your first comment. So no, I absolutely know those jobs are more meaningful.
You literally have no idea what projects I’ve worked on though. Hint: If I’m working on something in special needs care, I’m touching thousands of lives at once, not 10. But you probably equate me with the same people who develop online casinos or targeting systems for Palantir because I have the same job title.
You can still do knowledge work without being a mindless fleshy AI.
You want to call me mindless so much, I think you need to look into yourself. What do YOU do?
I don’t know how you can realize that the goal of the companies that own the AI you’re praising is the abolishment of human knowledge work altogether. Knowledge workers cost money. Look, even before the AI craze, the goal of nearly every company looking to make a profit has been to make work as boring and efficient as possible. I’ve been through it. People get reallocated to bite sized responsibility. Only do one thing and do it like a robot.
What kind of jobs do YOU think will exist in the future that are going to require any sort of complex thought? Because I can nearly guarantee that eventually, the doctors in your hospital will be robots, but the bedpan changers will be human. Nurses will be there to administer IVs and such, but shouldn’t have their own opinions.
And if you’re going to say that doctors, nurses, teachers, etc, are safe because those are government jobs not private company jobs… Well, with an aging populace and an already unsustainable pension system, the government’s gonna have to start saving money too.
Does it matter that AI can’t be held accountable and it makes mistakes a human could spot? No, because it’s significantly cheaper than paying a human that needs to pay rent and buy groceries. You just pay one human to take on the liability for the AI that replaced the other 10.
You literally have no idea what projects I’ve worked on though. Hint: If I’m working on something in special needs care, I’m touching thousands of lives at once, not 10. But you probably equate me with the same people who develop online casinos or targeting systems for Palantir because I have the same job title.
You want to call me mindless so much, I think you need to look into yourself. What do YOU do?
I don’t know how you can realize that the goal of the companies that own the AI you’re praising is the abolishment of human knowledge work altogether. Knowledge workers cost money. Look, even before the AI craze, the goal of nearly every company looking to make a profit has been to make work as boring and efficient as possible. I’ve been through it. People get reallocated to bite sized responsibility. Only do one thing and do it like a robot.
What kind of jobs do YOU think will exist in the future that are going to require any sort of complex thought? Because I can nearly guarantee that eventually, the doctors in your hospital will be robots, but the bedpan changers will be human. Nurses will be there to administer IVs and such, but shouldn’t have their own opinions.
And if you’re going to say that doctors, nurses, teachers, etc, are safe because those are government jobs not private company jobs… Well, with an aging populace and an already unsustainable pension system, the government’s gonna have to start saving money too.
Does it matter that AI can’t be held accountable and it makes mistakes a human could spot? No, because it’s significantly cheaper than paying a human that needs to pay rent and buy groceries. You just pay one human to take on the liability for the AI that replaced the other 10.