It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Will robots take away our jobs?
People have been asking that question for an astonishingly long time.
You can argue that what we often call artificial intelligence isn’t really intelligence. Indeed, it may be a long time before machines can be truly creative or offer deep insight. But then, how much of what human beings do is truly creative or deeply insightful? (Indeed, how much of what gets published in academic journals — a field of endeavor I know pretty well — meets those criteria?)
So quite a few knowledge jobs may be eminently replaceable.
What will this mean for the economy?
It is difficult to predict exactly how A.I. will impact the demand for knowledge workers, as it will likely vary, depending on the industry and specific job tasks. However, it is possible that in some cases, A.I. and automation may be able to perform certain knowledge-based tasks more efficiently than humans, potentially reducing the need for some knowledge workers. This could include tasks such as data analysis, research and report writing. However, it is also worth noting that A.I. and automation may also create new job opportunities for knowledge workers, particularly in fields related to A.I. development and implementation.
OK, I didn’t write the paragraph you just read; ChatGPT did, in response to the question “How will A.I. affect the demand for knowledge workers?” The giveaway, to me at least, is that I still refuse to use “impact” as a verb. And it didn’t explicitly lay out exactly why we should, overall, expect no impact on aggregate employment. But it was arguably better than what many humans, including some people who imagine themselves smart, would have written.
© 2015 Mutual Fund Observer. All rights reserved.
© 2015 Mutual Fund Observer. All rights reserved. Powered by Vanilla
Comments
I remain fascinated with all forms of technology in the broadest forms, but yes; the 'stuff' makes me twitchy.
Years back I posted links here regarding robotics and their many uses. These continue to expand. Large scale 3D printing is another area.
Some of this technology will remove some human work; but will also allow to assist humans by removing some work that is dangerous and allowing humans to be so much better with emergency situations. Drones for field study....farms, crops, forest and the 'eye in the sky' relative to the recent Florida hurricane. They could be flown into some houses without windows to 'look' for injured folks.
In spite of bad things that will evolve from scientific/tech.; they will be 'good' uses, too.
ChatGTP
I plan to login to this site to discover what I can do. As PK noted, some of his write evolved from this A.I.
Lastly, GULP......Elon Musk has his fingers in the OpenA.I. project.
Excerpt* - Allow me for a moment to discuss a new poem that has the potential to be a classic… Here's an excerpt: “Oh Infield Fly Rule, thou art a treasure A beacon of fair play beyond measure We thank thee for thy guidance and thy grace In the great game of baseball, thou dost hold a special place.”Boffo, right? Exactly what the Bard (or at least Ernest Lawrence Thayer) might have written if he'd been inclined to pen poesy about rules to prevent baseball cheats. But the actual author of this brilliant work was ChatGPT, an ingenious piece of software in a budding category called generative AI, a fancy term for computer-generated art, text, and music. Goofing around with the software last week—it's free on the web—I simply told it to write an ode to the infield fly rule. Two seconds later, said ode appeared.
* Excerpted from Barron’s December 12, 2022 issue
Umm … This can’t be good news for teachers assigning at home writing to their students. Hell, a 2-hour project might be completed in 2-seconds!
Wife is right about quality of work improving.
I recall 25 years ago or more when the internet was in infancy. An “enterprising” student turned in a “too good to be true” research paper. Not even having internet at home yet, it blew my mind. Did he look at an encyclopedia article and than type in every single word?
Spent hours at the public library after school digging through books trying to track down the source. Finally, the librarian took pity and led me to a computer. We logged into this weird sounding place called “Yahoo” and after searching for a few key passages, up popped the entire document from which the plagiarized work had been drawn. Simple “cut & paste”.
An AI write request for me would be quantum physics or mechanics........'cause I'm a blank about these two areas.