So what jobs are AI proof then?

[StrongJamie]

Based on recent media report we are facing an imminent (?) AI revolution.

I imagine that doctors, teachers, lecturers, accountants and civil servants can easily be replaced by AI and tailored professional AI software. I am guessing that jobs that require intricate physical handling are less at risk as it would be expense to mass produce the Hardware. Hospital doctors are more at risk than ward nurses but less than GPs who soon will be obsolete.

It will be a good while until they can mass produce robots that do humans jobs, which require a lot of running around and haptic skill but some jobs don't need a person, they just need the right software (e.g. GPs).

I imagine it like this, you log onto your GP AI service, they know all your medical history and also all the up to date epidemiological data of your neighbourhood as well as your biomarkers, pulse, heart rate etc uploaded via your smart watch continuously. The system knows about all possible diseases and conditions and based on your biomarkers and symptoms knows how to signpost you for further tests or what to prescribe. Job done, no more GP.

Teachers? No need. Ai robots, virtual or physical deliver synchronous teaching the rest is done online.

Please pick holes in my assumptions or add to the list of soon to be obsolete professions.

Which ones are ai bullet proof?

ChatGTP can write code as well as me from the examples I’ve seen

But does it know what to write code about?

Have you tried chat Gpt? It's not as good as it's being portrayed.

I actually use AI for creative work. It isn’t going to replace humans any time soon. The issue is that the AI can’t distinguish between a great solution and a pile of shit. It churns them out and a human needs to weigh them up and pick the best solutions to develop further. Usually the output isn’t perfect and it needs a human to refine it too. So I can see AI being used as a tool to assist creativity, but not as a replacement.

Maybe it will replace creatives on a small scale, for example writing snippets of marketing copy or Instagram posts, or producing pictures for people who have no budget and just want something that’s acceptable even if it’s not great. But it isn’t going to be writing novels or producing quality artistic output by itself.

Mental health clinical professionals, prison officers, police officers, probation officers. AI would probably make more sense than some magistrates IME

No one wants ED-209 though do they

Does this link work?

Here's what people are making it do so far...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/12diapw/gpt4week3chatbotsareyesterdaysnewsai/

No way would teachers be replaced.
Aside from the specifics of teaching alone, AI can’t be responsible for safeguarding children, nurturing them, sorting first aid, managing behaviour and all the other nuances a human teacher does. Would you really want your child in the care of a robot?! Or sat in front of a screen all day every day?
Teaching isn’t just standing in a room reciting facts to fill children’s heads with!!

I have and it's rudimentary but getting scary good, quickly. They're developing version 5 now which will be even better than the current paid version 4.

The man who made it is a prepper (as in, proper guns and nuclear bunker type) who says he's not surprised people are afraid of it.

Physiotherapists should be safe. Hard to get more hands-on than that!

A friend in marketing is already using an AI image generator to create a lot of images, so I fear graphic artists may be in danger. As a PP said, people without a big marketing budget suddenly have access to better copy/images than they would have before.

I occasionally have big writing jobs to do and I would hire AI over me - probably wouldn't dick around and procrastinate to the extent I do.

In the other 50% of my life I’m a personal trainer. Can’t see the SquatBot signing up my clients anytime soon.

I have and I think it’s brilliant.
I’ve used it to write blog posts, Instagram posts, YouTube scripts, lesson plans, etc.
I’m really excited about being able to implement it in the classroom more, and watch it save hours of the ghastly never-ending, repetitive teaching paperwork that has very little do with actual teaching. As a teacher, the profession is in utter crisis due to the excessive demands and teachers burning out so AI could honestly be a complete game changer for the industry. I’m excited for it

Anything that is based on trust and personal relationships would be safe from my perspective.

@Whu maybe not replacing teachers but I could easily see children having AI helpers. People are already combining it with voice software and face software. Fast forward a few years, combine with a memory and access to the internet, chatbot will completely personalise and tailor information just for you, and could easily be a tutor at home.

I've had a bit of a go, with a scientific question- it did an ok vague regurgitation but quickly bottomed out and wasn't useful for probing the issue I was interested in (and also obviously not up to date).

DH tried it on a few things ... it came up with answers which were factually untrue (eg it said Tony Blair had been to his school... nope). And on a scientific question he asked it to provide references which it did... but they were fictitious!

It's ok at writing doggerel on any subject you can think of though.

but thing is, it's improving exponentially.

By the way if it sounds like I'm rhapsodising about it, I'm not, I'm just terrified interested in its capabilities.

@ErrolTheDragon yes it's effectively a sort of autocomplete which can therefore generate complete crap, (known as "hallucinations").

It is also based on a lot of inevitably biased online data and social principles programmed by a few US software engineers, which might not seem like a big deal but is a huge concern - try asking it about JKR's views for example 🙄

@Hubblebubble It's awful isn't it. Chat GTP isn't great as it stands, but it's still good enough to leave me feeling extremely uncomfortable and I'm sure it will only get more sophisticated. Fortunately at the moment, it's not necessarily factually accurate so any content produced by it at least needs some human oversight before it's published. If it WAS accurate and sounded more 'human' then I'm not sure what the point of search engines would be— you could just ask ChatGTP and receive a detailed, factually-correct answer to your question.

I'm really worried about it. If there's no need for content creators any more then I'm absolutely fucked. I used to be a teacher but I have a form of autoimmune arthritis now, so writing is the only way I can think of to make a living. No idea what I'd do! At the very least, I picture our jobs becoming hybrid services where we tailor AI content to a certain voice/brand. Eek.

Maybe ai robots could take over teaching. But not sure how a robot would keep kids behaved and manage a classroom. Would robots be trusted to look after kids in classroom alone? If tech got that advanced that we'd trust robots to teach and look after our kids, there would be serious ethical discussions needed etc. Too many ai robot movies playing out!

Design i think is safe for now. I'd like to see ai take a scruffy pencil plan with scribbled measurements and turn it into a scale survey then design to match a vague client breif.

I can see it speeding up certain processes, eg planting plans, turning a photo into a 3d model of an existing house for example but it will be a while before it will create original work to a prescribed idea while matching the brief, be buildable and also look good. It could maybe do one of those at a time with the right input. Will ai ever get an eye for design? Who knows.

This is actually a really good point - taking the endless paperwork out of jobs like teaching, police, medicine, social work etc has got to be a great thing.

I think it will be interesting in future the kinds of screening tools we might get with AI - health wise for example. If you took a DNA sample, or saliva sample, or blood, urine, any number of things, from a vast number of people and let AI look at that data cross referenced with all of their health records, especially if this was done over several years - AI could likely figure out markers that we're not yet aware of because they are so niche nobody has ever studied them - for various health conditions, therefore providing a much less invasive and more comprehensive form of screening than people doing all separate things like smear tests etc.

Not now, I don't think it's there yet. But in the future.

Anything that involves risk of injury to humans. Driverless cars are yet to be rolled out, even though they have capability and technology already.

I think too many people think it is sci fi or like conspiracy theory stuff when actually technological singularity is real and could happen in our lifetime. Absolutely mind blowing.

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The way it could (and probably will) kill off search engines is probably why Google launched its own competitor product too early, which pales in comparison. It'll be interesting to see the impact on the internet and things like SEO and ads.

An arms race with AI is frightening.

I'm a social worker and that job will be safe. Same for lawyers.. AI couldn't possibly undertake the fair trial.
Carers, nurses, midwives, probation and YJS, those who work in children's residential, Foster carers, support workers, emergency services will all be fine.

I long for the day when GPs are obsolete! One of the ones at our surgery just Google’s everything and the patient often tells him what they think it is. They just seem really crap now at diagnosing anything accurately.