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donutdan4114 | 3 years ago

Autopilot Unstucker: Your job will be to travel around to various roads in your city where an AI driven vehicle has gotten stuck and move it.

Robot Janitor: as more and more robots take over menial jobs someone’s gotta clean and maintain them.

Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

Prompt Expert: a person who comes up with better and more creative prompts for AI generated content. Including AI generated images, music, and likely movies and shows, architecture and design in the future.

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DangitBobby|3 years ago

Ah "Virtual Friend" reminds me of FriendProxy from Maniac:

> Another equally depressing tech-inspired service in Maniac is called FriendProxy, a fictional company that lets you hire random strangers to pretend to be your close friends. As one customer notes, “I have real friends, this is just more convenient.”

Let's go ahead and add AdBuddy to your list:

> Targeted advertising takes its logical next step in Maniac with AdBuddy, a company that lets you pay for other products and services by listening to some schlub read advertisements to you. Can’t afford a train ticket? Ride with an AdBuddy. Hungry? AdBuddy will pay for your lunch — if you listen to advertisements while you eat.

1. https://www.inverse.com/article/49305-maniac-netflix-adbuddy...

bananaowl|3 years ago

Is advertising to people without money a good business?

trenning|3 years ago

Maniac is a great watch. Really hit some good dystopian/alternative future vibes.

undeIays|3 years ago

Next you'll tell we have to suffer ads and promotional marketing for rewards or donations just to check out at the pharmacy!

Buttons840|3 years ago

> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

How about "Virtual Non-Romantic Matchmaker". Pair up lonely people with similar interests who just want to be friends and play games, etc.

Wonder how much of this could be solved by removing the automation around matchmaking in online games. I used to find a server with a good ping and mods / rules that I liked and then I'd usually see the same people day after day, eventually people would start saying "hi" to me or laughing at my gameplay even though I made minimal effort to connect with them.

donutdan4114|3 years ago

Huh, actually it would be interesting if online matchmaking in games took into account more of what you’re looking for in a friend. Like if it prioritized matching you with people in similar age brackets and maybe could take into account other interests… so it’d be like the people you’re playing with would make someday likely friends. They could show your match score so you would immediately know if another player had similar interests… I kinda wish that existed!!

ekianjo|3 years ago

> Virtual Friend

Virtual AI Friends that are better than humans on how they deal with you are more likely to exist.

scaramanga|3 years ago

Which will continue to be more of a commentary on the continuing decline and collapse of society, and the ability of people to seamlessly enter delusional states when given only the most superficially convincing data, than it is on the advancements of "AI" :)

more_corn|3 years ago

People never behave how we are supposed to behave. AI will be way better at behaving properly. The minute AI lovers exist a huge percentage of the population is going to give up on human lovers entirely. No cheating, no fighting, emotionally stable. Proper conflict resolution. Although AI does get weird sometimes.

speedgoose|3 years ago

Fore sure. Replika is already doing pretty well for many people.

CM30|3 years ago

> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

Reminds me of those services in Japan where you can hire people to act as relatives or simply be there to talk to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental_family_service

I suspect online versions either exist already, or will exist soon enough.

passion__desire|3 years ago

Experience designer. (for the last one with multimedia experiences)

jmrm|3 years ago

> Autopilot Unstucker

I think this could be a job for the same people who work when a tree fall in the middle of the road and they remove it.

spookierookie|3 years ago

"as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades"

hasn't that happened already?