We do have a slight problem coming up

[BringMetheHeadofLeonLett]

I don't give a ***** what your political affiliations are, there really isn't any existing job which bean-counters won't figure out a way to make unnecessary. 
 

personally, I think Artificial Intelligence may just be the stupidest thing I've ever seen or dated, but the layoffs are coming.  Believe what you will. 

[Andy1]

1 hour ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

I don't give a ***** what your political affiliations are, there really isn't any existing job which bean-counters won't figure out a way to make unnecessary. 
 

personally, I think Artificial Intelligence may just be the stupidest thing I've ever seen or dated, but the layoffs are coming.  Believe what you will. 

AI is the elephant in the room no one is talking about. Our government doesn’t seem interested in regulating it. AI firms are stealing the intellectual property of everyone to use. Corporations can’t wait to lay off their employees to increase their profits. Tech billionaires will become trillionaires while the working class will be left fighting for the crumbs. If it can be used for evil, we all know it will be used that way. Aside from possible health care benefits, I don’t see any benefits. I don’t want driverless cars, I don’t want a computer for a doctor, I don’t want young men developing relationships with algorithm programmed AI women, I don’t want to not know if a photo, video or voice is real. It’s all BS. 

[yall]

2 hours ago, BringMetheHeadofLeonLett said:

I don't give a ***** what your political affiliations are, there really isn't any existing job which bean-counters won't figure out a way to make unnecessary. 
 

personally, I think Artificial Intelligence may just be the stupidest thing I've ever seen or dated, but the layoffs are coming.  Believe what you will. 

Coming? I'd contend they are already here.

 

I see a lot more green circles on LinkedIn than ever (i.e. "open to work"/indicating unemployed status). 

 

Most are in tech or related disciplines.

[teef]

we had a young guy in our office recently who has masters degree from RIT in computer or software engineering, ( i may not have that exactly correct but that was the idea) and he is having a lot of trouble finding work.  he actually said that he thinks he chose the wrong career.  i can't imagine being that age with a lot of schooling thinking that my work is getting phased out.  

[4th&long]

I have a friend that lost her job to Ai. 

 

If you ask Ai a question the answers are not always right. How can companies rely on that? If you are running a company and Ai ***** up then what? You get what you deserve. 

[LDD]

48 minutes ago, teef said:

we had a young guy in our office recently who has masters degree from RIT in computer or software engineering, ( i may not have that exactly correct but that was the idea) and he is having a lot of trouble finding work.  he actually said that he thinks he chose the wrong career.  i can't imagine being that age with a lot of schooling thinking that my work is getting phased out.  

Twin valedictorians in my son's graduating HS class three years ago went to RIT.  They are saying the same thing... absurdly intelligent, hard working kids.

[JFKjr]

AI is going to suck up a huge amount of energy. Raising the price of electric for the rest of us.

 

Great time to be switching to EVs and 'all electric' homes though! (New New York state law that new buildings must be electric not gas, starting in 2026)

 

Should get interesting!

[yall]

7 minutes ago, JFKjr said:

AI is going to suck up a huge amount of energy. Raising the price of electric for the rest of us.

 

Great time to be switching to EVs and 'all electric' homes though! (New New York state law that new buildings must be electric not gas, starting in 2026)

 

Should get interesting!

If the Chinese perfect Thorium reactors (which it appears they are on the cusp of using our research from the 1950s) then energy will be cheap and plentiful.

[Coffeesforclosers]

AI is either the bubble of all bubbles, or it's going to make huge swathes of white collar and service work obsolete.

 

Either way, main street will get *****, and the rich will get richer, or get bailed out.

[teef]

13 minutes ago, LDD said:

Twin valedictorians in my son's graduating HS class three years ago went to RIT.  They are saying the same thing... absurdly intelligent, hard working kids.

there's going to be a cohort of student and young graduates that get caught up in this bind.  on top of that, these aren't lazy kids who are partying their college years away.

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

Humanoid robots are coming onto the market real soon. If those things can perform household tasks they can surely serve a cup of coffee or a burger at a fast food joint. Many, many jobs are going to be taken over by some form of automation. Amazon plans to double the number of packages it ships, but with the same number of workers it has now. Amazon's warehouses, only a few years old are already obsolete! 

 

Yes, there will be a jobs crisis soon 

 

 

[Trump_is_Mentally_fit]

7 minutes ago, yall said:

If the Chinese perfect Thorium reactors (which it appears they are on the cusp of using our research from the 1950s) then energy will be cheap and plentiful.

Something big is going to change soon with energy, whether its Thorium, solar power from space, helium 3 found on the moon or something else. 

[Royale with Cheese]

I wonder if this is a perfect time to state that I have invested in an AI company?  My best friend in San Francisco has developed an AI software program and has his second meeting with Apple.  He met with them this past Monday and they called him back yesterday wanting a second meeting for next Friday to meet with more Leaders.

 

I'm trying not to get too excited.

[The Frankish Reich]

47 minutes ago, LDD said:

Twin valedictorians in my son's graduating HS class three years ago went to RIT.  They are saying the same thing... absurdly intelligent, hard working kids.

Yep, it's sad, because these kids did everything right. We told them that computer science was the future, and now AI is pulling the rug out on them.

I told my kids the same thing, and I'm feeling kind of fortunate that they ignored my advice and wound up in fields that aren't impacted. At least "aren't impacted yet ..."

[IYKYK]

11 minutes ago, Royale with Cheese said:

I wonder if this is a perfect time to state that I have invested in an AI company?  My best friend in San Francisco has developed an AI software program and has his second meeting with Apple.  He met with them this past Monday and they called him back yesterday wanting a second meeting for next Friday to meet with more Leaders.

 

I'm trying not to get too excited.

Our advisor moved some money into AI a year ago and the results have been very positive. There’s serious money to be made if you have good financial advisors who are on top of their game.