AI over the next few years

There won’t need to be teachers. Children won’t need to learn any more.

A 3rd of jobs are going to be lost to AI, and unlike in previous generations, there aren’t going to be jobs to replace them.

Communication skills are going to cease to exist. We will be raising a generation of children incapable of reading, writing, communicating at all, not even formulating their own sentences because all they have to do is get ChatGPT to write what they want to say.

The top artists on Spotify are already AI generated.

You won’t be engaging with people in call centres, shops etc any more it will all be AI. In fact likelihood is that shops won’t exist because everything will be delivered, by driverless vehicles.

And that’s exciting how exactly?

I really am excited to see the changes that AI will bring. However I am not for a second believing that this new tech and home robot helpers will free us up for additional leisure time. If I can do my job twice as fast, I’ll just be expected to do twice as much in the same time. I won’t recover any of that time for myself.
I am a teacher so already seeing the benefit of using AI to lighten my workload in terms of prep and resources. I’ve even coded an app to assess children’s writing which saves hours of work per child. All this means is though that my headteacher expects more output from me in the same amount of time!

No, unless you are a millionaire it’s a terrible thing.
Where will you get purpose in life? withdraw your universal basic income and do what exactly? I think our air and water quality will be even worse. The far distant future is very dystopian in my eyes, thankfully not in my lifetime but I worry for my child and her children if she has any.
I think AI will mean less humans, maybe that’s no bad thing actually, but I think it’ll wipe out nature too.

So dismissive. It''s just not true that everyone in creative arts will be safe. It's happening already, and it's going to get worse.

We learned about the Luddites in a gently mocking sort of way, but nowadays I’m thinking they had it right. I’m still doom scrolling climate change and it seems AI isn’t exactly helping, given the water needs and heat of the data centres. I sometimes feel like all humans do is accelerate our decline and AI is another step in the same direction.

Well Rishi tried to get the law sorted to attract AI companies to the UK and it got blocked by fear mongers. There were so many things the conservatives tried to do to improve economic output and reduce things that are draining the treasury and they were stopped at every turn by wankers who think the government is just a place where they get paid to filibuster and argue black is white. If the government tries to bring big business here and stop excessive immigration because we’re not the world’s fixers, and useful idiots in opposition and on the street are allowed their stupid protests like stopping wind farms and data centres and burning down 5G masts, and other things that kill industry, then people can’t bleat that the economic output is so poor and that there are no jobs due to AI really.

Last year I read "The new age of sexism" by Laura Bates which was shocking from the obvious perspective of even more ways to abuse women, but also because it gave me a massive kick up the backside!! I thought I had broadly kept up with the concepts of technological advances but when I read this book I realised that things that I thought were still a decade or two away were already happening (metaverse, haptic full body suits).
Since then I have made a point of informing myself on developments and introducing more tech/AI into my everyday life. I'm only 45, I can't risk falling behind with another 20 years in the workforce.

In the last couple of months I have used AI to apply for a job, I got it to essay plan my personal statement, then proof read/ crtitic what I wrote. I then used the speech interaction to do interview practice which was amazing and a game changer for me who has always struggled with interviews, I must have run through a dozen full length mock interviews, then after I got the job (1 post and a lot of applicants), I then needed to attach a CV to the MSc application that goes with the role, but the orginal job application was an online form, so I downloaded the pdf from the recruitment site, added it to gemini and asked gemini to use it to create a CV, amazing, formatted professionally, lifted my orginally wording and writing style from the application, and done in seconds.

We all have to move with the times, but that is easier for me to say as a work in a very safe profession (healthcare).

I love AI. I’ve got into making chatbots. I’m a university lecturer and have made an interactive revision chatbot for my students. I’m constantly thinking of new things to use it for at work. Some stuff which used to take me 1-2 weeks to do I can do in a morning now.

Elon, that you?

Genuine question - where are you getting your information?

This would be a really stupid solution though. The government would control it to use it in a regulated way, not for profit. Like nationalisation generally.

This seems like a staggeringly naive take.

Well...
A cynic might say this is because the AI companies (many of whom are big political donors) are losing money hand over fist and would very much like the government to take over the expenses
Privatise the profits, socialise the costs as they say!

I work for a large finance software company, we were just told this week that a number of people are being made redundant and it is due to AI. The company has been working closely with Anthropic for several months now.

No clearer details were given than that - I don't know who, I don't know what they did and I don't know how or even if AI is replacing them.

There is a growing movement to nationalise AI. Really interesting that people in both the democrats and the republicans are calling for it in the US

Where will the money for universal basic income come from if the AI profits sit in the hands of a few private companies. Especially where they are already actively avoiding paying taxes.

No, I'm not ecstatic about it. I make music - AI will be quite happy to steal my creative ideas and wreck my livelihood without recompense