Here are some takeaways and cautious predictions given the recent developments:
It's more than likely that will have a personal AI assistant they pay for. Think of Blade Runner 2049 but for now without the hologram stuff. And without the AI becoming sentient part, because as of now, ChatGPT etc. don't work like that. I mean, many people in this subreddit already pay 20 bucks each month for GPT4. You want text to video? Nice, buy the add-on etc. etc. Many of you already use AI at work. But we will see a point were governments want to regulate AI and sooner or later AI law will get its own legal code book. New laws could be directly applied via API.
Some popular AI startup job ideas I see no long term future:
AI prompt curators and GPT agents. The business idea behind this basically is doing mundane preparation work even Gen Xers or Boomers would understand after a one week workshop. But the biggest reason is: given the rapid growth of AI, don't you think that the AI itself will become so user friendly to a point were it'll do the setup process by itself? Mind you: creating code according to simple prompt inputs never was a problem for AI.
Future boring AI jobs:
Commercial AI needs to be heavily curated and trained to create appropriate results. The main pillars are legality, quality, creativity, humanoid-like responses etc. Software companies will need much more personell in the foreseeable future. Regarding its core mechanics it is not unlikely that it will be forbidden that AI trains itself, at least in some segments that affect morale etc. For those tasks you can't employ uneducated people, instead you need rather smart people which again will get paid good money given the responsibility. The work itself will be easy, as they only need prompting and no knowledge in coding. The sector however is huge, assuming that there is potential for AI helping in the vast majority of every job. The "diversification" of a regular product life usually occurs in the last third of the cycle, in AI however diversification is in its nature. But like I said earlier, those jobs will be subject to the AI providers, not in form of freelance AI agents.
Unemployment disaster:
Jobs will be cut. The first ones to go will be tech support within the very near future. AI will provide much better results than human tech support via chat which today is already outsourced to low income countries to tackle high costs. This once again takes us as at risk re-routing all the money for jobs which are replaced by AI to a few big software companies. Just like Amazon "killed the corner shop". It will be our task to re-think society structures. In Utopia we would AI do 90% of our work and everybody gets a healthy unconditional "pension" with today's approach to politics is unlikely, however maybe necessary unless we want dystopian scenarios. However we live in a free market so it's gonna be hard to convince companies to accept an "AI tax" implemented on all profits generated by AI. We are at high risk to further widen the gap between poor and wealthy.
Some may call it communism, but maybe Star Trek like society is closer than we think. Maybe not in our generation, but our children will have to deal with these ideas.
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