AI proof professions

Ubbquittious

In the long run I reckon only the "world's oldest profession" will survive. Although the % of people who would be willing to have a sex bot instead of a partner is already quite high so even that might be in danger

There might be no safe professions in the long run. Even employee-heavy companies like Accenture and ones that currently require a lot of brain power will eventually just be one owner dude with 0 employees lying on the beach in Barbados watching his bank balance increasing on his phone

They'll probably come up with menial tasks kinda like pokemon go for people so they have to get up off their arse and not spend the whole day smoking weed in order to get their Oobeh*.

*UBI = Universal basic income

StevenToast

Any of the trades....plumbing, electrician, carpenter, brickies etc....farmers...

Fùck your AI for these jobs....

Larry Bee

Lifeguard

worded

Drone operator ... No wait they are going AI as well

Sheep Dogs.... No wait not even their jobs are safe !

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122982049#Comment_122982049

One o these days you'll be walking the hills of Kerry and see a Boston Dynamics dog chasin a load of sheep

Emblematic

Legally regulated trades like pharmacist or electrician. Legislation would need to be brought in to allow non-humans to do these jobs.

ancapailldorcha

Non-routine jobs that require a high degree of human interaction and problem solving. AI at the moment is focused on repetitive tasks and scraping the web for text.

Ubbquittious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122982075#Comment_122982075

Only temporary. Elon Musk will lobby to have his humanoid robot approved and will eventually win

Comhrá

Stone masons.

Jim Herring

Blade runner

littlefeet

Midwife Nurse but someone did argue with me that woman would be happy to give birth with an AI bot assisting them.

Don't worried capitalism needs people to be consumer's to keep the whole thing going so there will be UBI.

littlefeet

Its funny but people's are so use capitalism they have forgotten how it works.

SuperBowserWorld

The legal system will fight against AI even when a lot of cases could be closed very quickly even with 20th century technology.

If crime = x and evidence = y then punishment = z

SuperBowserWorld

Musicians, artists ... any work by real humans will become much rarere and more valuable.

Geuze

There has never been as much automation as today.

Yet there are widespread labour shortages.

Jobs will change, yes, but, unfortunately, we won't all be on 3-day weeks in 20 years time.

LambshankRedemption

The spreadsheet was invented in the late 70's. ~45 years later it is still far from perfect. Many companies now use a tool called Confluence. Written by the same crowd who created Jira. Confluence struggles with doing some very basic stuff here in 2024. I wanted to do some basic dynamic arithmetic in it recently, and I had to buy an add-on to enable it.

Year ago I worked for a company that sold "Smart-driven Threat Analysis", it didn't say AI but it was alluded to that we were using AI in all the sales material. The reality? The "Smart analysis" was done by me, an italian and a crazy Hungarian - manually. So I am very dubious with so many companies suddenly revealing their AI-based services.

At the end of the day, AI can not be creative. It can paraphrase, summarise, maybe even hypothesise, but not create. So someone has to tell it what to do.

Also, people often conflate robotics with AI, but they are very different, and robotics replacing humans for many things is still a long way off.

I'm not worried about being replaced any time soon. Not before retirement age anyway.

sarcastic_existence

I'm a software dev, with several decades of coding experience.

I've seen multiple career-ending advances appear, and yet, here I am writing code and shipping software.

You're going to get both optimistic and pessimistic opinions….and since we're trying to predict the future, neither will be accurate.

The only thing AI brings to the table is that it has the potential to affect multiple industries at the same time. Previous technicological advances tended tp be limited to specific industries, or a set of inductries.

Sam Altman (openAI CEO) was interviewed on Lex Fridman a while back, and when asked about the number of jobs that AI would replace, he replied that he sees millions of 5-10min tasks being replaced, rather than jobs being replaced.

But then again, he would say that, wouldn't he.

So i think most technical jobs will survive, with AI being another tool that is used daily.

The UN released a report on the impact of AI on jobs: https://www.un.org/tr/desa/ai-jobs-are-changing-no-mass-unemployment-expected-un-labour-experts

endacl

Barber. Can’t download a haircut.

SupaCat95

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122982038#Comment_122982038

Farmers? One of my lecturers is involved with these stackable farm factories in the UK. Scary times ahead when the government soley control food production. See Stalin era.

ec_pc

AI is not a job replacer in my view, it is more of a job enhancer. Your staff get to spend time on the important value add activities and the run of the mill mundane activities are eliminated and replaced by AI. Even take writing a one page summary document, ChatGPT can do that instantly rather than having a member of staff spending a few hours writing it.

Balloon animal artist?

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122982170#Comment_122982170

On the plus side, it won’t work.

thereiver

We need builders cleaners waiters. Actors solicitors civil servants bus drivers mechanics cooks teachers doctors paramedics soldiers police retail staff programmers cooks chefs I could go on if everyone is unemployed who will buy computers software and pay for expensive data centers that runs ai programs

Ai could maybe replace 10 per cent of office jobs it's being used in films and game studios to make video game art

Its possible to design a house in cad but we need carpenters builders to make a house

Meta google make money by selling apps or advertising

If everyone is unemployed why spend money to run ads when people have no money to buy goods or order things on online stores

Actors writers went on strike to get a contract saying they cannot be replaced by Ai programs

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122983461#Comment_122983461

I am not sure what would make spreadsheets perfect as they do way more than they did before and still not used correctly by the vast majority of people. I think spreadsheets are a prime example of a great tool that can do so many things but it is not used to do these things because people don't know how to do it. AI is different in that it can be asked to do things and the user doesn't have to learn how to do it. At the moment Prompt Engineers are a new role that is meant to bridge the current gap between what an end user wants and getting AI to do it. AI is improving so fast that it is hard to have a dedicated users to be Prompt Engineers and for them to stay on top of the changes.

Confluence is just for sharing resources and information with a group not much of a tool above Sharepoint any calculations it is used for is just an afterthought and it is not stable enough yet.

AI can certainly mimic creativity to the extent it shows many creative jobs are just rehashing things and aren't that creative at all. Asking AI to create a 50s style diner interior, logo and menu is very easy now where "creative" people would have been involved before.

iamstop

Mechanics, Technicians, Engineers, Builders etc

Esel

Village idiots

Strumms

most…

Healthcare positions.

Sports officiating.

Building trade jobs

electricians

Driving testers

More besides….

Stephen_Maturin

Salespeople (in certain fields)

Requires too much face to face interaction that would be ignored if the information was coming from a robot etc

cj maxx

Farming or Garda .

lumphammer2

Drug dealer ….. the AI developer would be arrested for designing such an AI capability first …..

randd1

As they say there's only two recession proof industries, morticians and prostitution.

I'd imagine the same will be true for AI. I'd imagine AI will bring some level closure to most jobs, or radically alter them, but for the most part the two long lasting ones should survive.

That being said, if that movie subservience comes to pass, I can see a lot of people just having robot lovers.