To think that AI is taking over jobs far, far, FAR quicker than we anticipated?

I think that the nlw and ni increases this year will hasten the introduction of ai into a lot of jobs. I work in health and my practice is looking at ai for booking appointments, typing notes and referral letters, coding and processing medication requests. I've been told we're looking at reducing our administration team hours by 75%.

How do you know it was a real person…?

Interesting, but I can't think of an example!

I had an argument with the PayPal bot and it handed me over to a real person. .

I'm pretty sure when the internet first came around we said the same thing. Can you remember what it sounded like in 1996 when people tried to explain it to you and it seemed so fanciful and incredible and that it would destroy the world? (Though one could argue that it is in some ways)
I refuse to worry about what I cannot change. People adapt and the world moves on.

Unless you’re incredibly rich, how will
you pay your mortgage or rent? How will you buy food and heat your home? Where will the money come from to live a half decent life?

Economies have always adapted organically with the help of politics to generate goods and to distribute them.

Economies have also collapsed.

At some point in the future its predicted by some that AI will replace so many jobs that governments wont really know what do do with people.

It could solve for our energy needs, production needs and entertainment needs, clean the oceans, help humanity seed other planets etc.

It could make money essentially useless as nobody will want for anything.

Its gonna be interesting for the next few generations if we dont destroy ourselves first.

You should be worried. My DS put his law exam paper through AI and whilst it scored lower than he did it did pass. Expect paralegal jobs to go within a few years and a lot of other well paid office roles. AI can already read medical scans better than humans. And we haven't even started to grasp the security issues around intelligent machines that know everything that we have on the internet.

Thank you. I wasn’t suggesting you combine the jobs though.

A wise-cracking undertaker who shows the deceased’s family the many fabulous features of a home exercise bike might not work.

Yes, the online AI customer services is really bad. I always end up requesting to speak to a real person or, if possible, choose the real person option first.

Proper jobs, like people used to do. Yah

No need to catastrophise so much. AI will be used instead of humans to produce the goods and services which have made our society wealthy beyond all imagining. Our economy and political systems will inevitably evolve to accommodate this. I say inevitably because the alternative is warehouses full of goods without an economic system that enables those goods to be consumed. And services available with no one to sell them to. Economies have always adapted organically with the help of politics to generate goods and to distribute them.

Undertaker.

QVC product demonstrator.

Stand up comedian.

Can't see AI taking my job.

It's about the relationships I have, my reputation in a particular market and a load of knowledge and experience that you can't look up anywhere.

But never say never.

Currently I'd advise a teenager to go to uni if they can get into a great uni, but otherwise to do an apprenticeship in something practical.

Honestly… we’re actively trying to use it at work and it’s so hit and miss. Everyone’s saying it’s going to be soooo great but the results are fine as a starting point. After that it still needs a lot of human interaction (in the area that I work - legal). I’m glad it’s progressing but my role is also shifting now. I don’t think it’s the end of legal services at all. Just a readjustment of my own role. I’m not overly worried as I think there is so much left for improvement tbh.

Maybe for those us 40+ will be near or retired when it really takes over but for those generations behind us I can see how it'll be more terrifying for them in terms of jobs.

I'm still wondering how travel agents are still in business you can have AI plan your whole trip for you, it won't necessarily book it all but I'm sure that will come soon. Last yr I hurt myself I literally dropped my itinerary into char gpt and asked to make it more accessible. Super quick and easy. I doubt a travel agent could of done that without a lot of googling.

Once again, no, AI can't physically do a lot of those jobs (though it could do things like, say, garden design and planting schemes).

But there has to be someone with enough money to pay you to do those jobs. Will there be?

Opened my emails the other day, we use Google and the current features makes my assistant redundant! It’s pretty sad. There is alot it still cannot do, but if it just needs to learn what we want, it will probably be up to scratch in a few years.

I think jobs that require physical or in person interactions will grow. Practical stuff - we still need buildings, things designed - but I do worry that it will make the job pool so much narrower. Where you needed a team of 10, a team of 2 would do - for example.

I tell my DD you need to be a thinker. Problem solving with AI is the future across all fields.

Plumbing and heating engineering
Electrician
Nursing/social care/nursery worker
Building and joinery etc.
Civil engineering worker
Cleaner
Animal Care
Clothing alterations/seamstress
Gardening

The very rich need customers. Netflix/Amazon/Apple are only as valuable as their customer base will allow them to be. The people at the top of the financial pyramid can't just hover in mid air.

Dunno

We recently installed copilot and I can see it's not that spectacular really

Yes it's can synthesize information quickly but so can I

Not sure if that's the type of AI you mean