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Will AI take your job?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    8k video of an apple is fantastic quality. But utterly uninteresting. There's no Composition, no focus, or the focus keeps moving. No depth of field of too wide depth of field. There's more to it than the quality of the camera.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    And what do you base that on?

    I don't care about all the promises he has made…I care about results.

    On his CV he has Tesla, Space X and had a hand in OpenAI and he founded PayPal which is used in every two in every country in the world.

    Your non argument sounds like a child 'He isn't because….he just isn't'.

    I think the guy is so clever in what he has accomplished but says and does incredibly stupid sh!t in his personal life and acts like a clown at times but it doesn't blind me from the genius that he is.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    true….people raving about the new Superman…..may as well be playing a computer game.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    true but the just as that clown Neymar ruled Football because PSG had the oil money guy who decided his playpen needed him and he was willing to pay anything to get him….same thing with Art.

    Who was the one who decided the Mona Lisa was worth millions? Someone with deep pockets….



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Open to correction. From my reading paypal was the product of the company he didn't found, and was earlier than the company he was a founder of.. they merged and the merged company took the name of the product PayPal.



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  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    No I am open to correction…I went and read up on a few articles done by third parties….you are correct….in fact I see he didn't found Tesla either….so your scepticism is justified. Why someone so rich would need to promote ego over truth is beyond me.

    Money is indeed the root of all evil it seems.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,533 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Bar the original company he started, Musk didn't found any of the companies he bought into.

    Zip2 is the only major concern that he was in at the beginning. The rest of the companies he's associated with, he used his money to gain access to, as far as I'm aware.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    I made no judgement. But he's a long history of it. He sacked the board of the first X. Kinda of a pattern. Very similar to Trump.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 839 ✭✭✭poop emoji


    no we are not anywhere near AGI in 5 years

    And that’s before you realise that keeping human level intelligence working against its will is basically slavery

    Which might be fine with the billionaire apertheid Nazi, tho what happens when same intelligence turns its intellect on its slave drivers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    What happens when the beancounters start digging into the subscription charges? What happens to IT pros when they become dependent on monthly AI subscription services? For programmers what happens as their skills dealing with problems atrophy and the service does down?, not very productive staring at a blank terminal. Lot's of IT admins and financial controllers are forced to deal with the Broadcom leveraged buyout of VMware, Broadcom jacked up prices massively and quite a lot the business customer base are now paying 150% to 1,200% more for the service.

    OpenAI is losing money on its pricey ChatGPT Pro plan, CEO Sam Altman says | TechCrunch

    Why Claude is Dropping Customers - AI digitalnews


    On top of that there are all the wrappers that use openAI and others and charge their own subscription fees (markup) on the openAI pricing. There are a myriad of other issues that come to the fore such as data protection and how to compensate others intellectual property that the models have used? All these costs and margins are being worked out, some by litigation. What happens when someones IP ends up in your product without appropriate licensing, who is liable?

    There is more to this, than mass layoffs.

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,282 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,282 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Can't have a universal basic income unless we have the hardest of hard borders.

    No free entry from NI or GB for starters.

    This is something its trendy-lefty proponents never talk about.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ledwithhedwith




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Labourers not builders.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭techman1


    Who was the one who decided the Mona Lisa was worth millions? Someone with deep pockets….

    LLook anyone can see that painting the mona Lisa took a genius, that's why the ordinary Joe soap will pay to see it but not to see Jeff Goons "balloon dog" which they know to be a fraud. It is true that mona Lisa is also famous for being famous and why is that lauded over other great paintings of the renaissance period.

    Could AI generate another "mona lisa" type work that is truly original and not a pastiche of famous paintings, I doubt it. However it would be very easy for AI to come up with a "balloon dog" Jeff Goons example, in fact AI might burst the whole contemporary art scene bubble



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ledwithhedwith


    right so , but still a poor example of not taking away jobs lol



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Maybe get the names of the jobs and the roles they do correct.

    AI isn't going to decide and construct a canal with no human intervention in the process anytime soon. So a pretty poor example of AI will replace humans as well.

    Lol.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    I think it will be more useful in taking removing a lot drudgery out of many tasks. I'm not sure it's going to invent the next velcro on it's own though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,251 ✭✭✭ledwithhedwith




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    Was that an AI response, seems unoriginal and copied someone else. Which ticks all the boxes.



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    As a clueless person regarding Art….why is someone sitting down with hands crossed such a genius painting?

    If someone sat Michelle Pfeiffer or Monica Bellucci and painted them, I could see it….

    What gives subjective art value is scarcity and the desire of the rich to acquire it.
    The Painter does only one and so millionaires slug it out.

    The Last Supper in my eyes is a great painting….



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    A fanboy suggests that someone cannot see any wrong in someone.

    I have countless arguments about Spurs last manager on FB with 'fanboys'.

    I admire some of the achievements Musk has made but I am seeing that like Steve Jobs he has used his wealth in buying into good companies at the right time.

    I certainly don't like his personality or some of the things he stands for while I agree with some standpoints like free speech.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,608 ✭✭✭thereiver


    Irish people who work for temu lost their jobs and are being replaced by AI agents .if you are sittimg at a desk. Just fillng in forms or reading emails you are in danger of being replaced. 500k programmers who work in America lost thier jobs in the last year but that's mostly due to the cancelling of tax relief credits for research , company's could claim tax credits for all tech workers as being part of research Those people will probably have to work for small company's or look for another type of job to do

    Alot of programmets use ai to write small programs so instead of ten people working for a company they may only hire 5 tech workers



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    He's never making a stand point on free speech. He's wanted to have no restriction on what he says or anything that makes him money. While having restrictions on anything that disagrees with him or makes him money. H

    He's uses his wealth to get his way. Like Trump he's lost a lot of money from poor decisions. But he has deep pockets he can afford to lose a lot of money to chase money.

    A poor guy can't win a lose more money to win an argument than a rich guy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭purplefields


    The subscription thing has already happened over ten years ago with applications moving to the Cloud.

    Software companies now have to pay Amazon or Microsoft etc, subscriptions to use their Cloud infrastructure to run their applications. AI is the next step, as it is also mostly cloud based too.

    I also recently read an article that says Google is replacing its search with AI results. Small companies relying on SEO or clicks are finished.

    Wealth is going to get more and more concentrated in a core group of huge companies. Then there will be another war as the people revolt (like WW1)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,375 ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    People aren't going to revolt though. They'll just take it as they have everything else.

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,990 ✭✭✭✭Flinty997


    There's a good argument to move back to physical media and Linux OS and software to escape from cloud subscriptions. Having stuff in the cloud adds a load of complexity and skill creep that no one asked for.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,121 ✭✭✭ArthurDayne


    Coming from the legal industry perspective here, I don't think AI will replace lawyers, though I do think it will have a disruptive effect at some point as regards the amount of trainees / paralegals that are needed, but in the long run will re-settle as the nature and expectations of the job change. In other words, excelling in Law in the future might not necessarily require the absolute Trojan effort of spending all-nighters consuming and analysing enormous amounts of text, but rather the focus will be on the things where good lawyers actually add value for their clients rather than just dumping billable hours on the clock spent on tedious administrative tasks.

    My hope would be that young lawyers spend less time manually stitching information together and more time actually learning how to advise — something which requires executive decision-making, emotional and strategic intelligence etc. The role of lawyers may also expand beyond mere legal work into broader strategic advisory work for companies, governments etc.

    And to be honest, I think this is where AI takes us more generally. As its capabilities develop, the value added by humans will be actual human thought and creativity — so education, training and the ambitions of young people will need to be geared towards creativity, whether it's advisory or labour etc.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭Pa ElGrande


    We've been told for nearly two decades now that The Cloud™ is the best-performing and most cost-effective computing environment there is. That businesses should all move massively to cloudy platforms because their costs will become negligible! There is no one size fits all and many companies have been burned by unexpected costs using The Cloud™, accountants or CFOs would not be doing their job if they did not question the outgoing expenses, that's why really expensive workloads are kept in house, where the costs can be contained.

    Unskilled employees will blow up organizations costs quickly using AI, I don't know if there are many IT administrators on here remember having to explain their first cloud bills that got out of control.

    Wealth is going to get more and more concentrated in a core group of huge companies. Then there will be another war as the people revolt (like WW1)


    This makes no sense. Explain what you mean?

    Net Zero means we are paying for the destruction of our economy and society in pursuit of an unachievable and pointless policy.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,282 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    The free speech thing is complete nonsense, he suppresses anything on X he doesn't like.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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