Not that I completely disagree with you, yes indeed with excellent training not sure how many can be retrained to be good enough for new kind of job roles, skills. Also it isn't certain that there will be far more new jobs than what would get shed, in which case there won't be enough demand to absorb even the retrained (and skilled) labor.
cudgy|4 months ago
Is AI the proverbial apple in Adam and Eve? Are we justifying taking a bite of it just because it’s there? Are we helpless and unable to defend ourselves against it? My worry is that thoughts like these and questions like these are going through young people and their decisions about how to provide and proceed into a career. Are we headed towards learned helplessness?
intended|4 months ago
Retraining is a pipe dream which will be sold for another 5 years, till most people are underemployed.
This is what happened to factory workers, and to an extent is going to happen to knowledge workers.
The real menace is hidden in the details though - knowledge work is assumed to have one core component - information. Accurate information.
In reality it has two - emotional salience and informational accuracy.
LLMs generate content- I foresee a future where people are underemployed as output verifiers. So a PhD in physics helps you QC an LLM.
The only job left is to own a firm, but even that will be closed because you will either be selling to capital owners or the majority of humanity.
The only hope of technology is that it creates a revolution which upends the preexisting incumbents. But the issue here is the under employment.
hackable_sand|4 months ago