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The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] 101 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Even the headline is wrong. Jobs have already started disappearing due to AI.

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  • [–] 36 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    I did some AI training a couple of years ago. Turned out I trained the AI to do what I was doing.

    Fool me once...

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (7 children)

    What job were you doing that AI can do it?

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    It was fairly basic, just analyzing audio tracks and extracting the dialogue from them to text. Simple stuff for AI now.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think your job might be safe. AI has been doing speech to text for over a quarter century. It's been bundled with Windows since XP. And nobody uses it because it has all the same problems that modern AI has.

    https://youtu.be/kTefnhbg0Ig

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    Well yeah it has but it really sucked at it till things like Whisper came along. You really had to train it to specific speakers and even then you'd have to manually go over everything.

    Now running the heaviest whisper model and then an LLM to fix obvious mistakes and you have the same quality a human contractor would deliver. Except it can do a day's work in 5 minutes.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    I would love to see an AI trying to my job. It's useless at almost every aspect except for seeming like it knows what it's talking about.

    So the higher ups who never know anything will listen to it, implemented it's dumb suggestions that are either unworkable or actually illegal and will burn the company to the ground. It would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that I would be out of a job.

    They want a new financial management solution (currently they're using some ancient thing on SAP) they've looked at a few solutions but they don't like any of them because they all cost a lot of money since they all go with the subscription model these days rather than just letting you buy the software in one big payment. They have actually considered letting an AI right some software for them. Should be fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I'm told that AI can't actually replace humans, so presumably those jobs will be back in short order.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    They were just layoffs in disguise, so they wont be back for a while.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I think they'll all come back after public sentiment seems to lean towards, "I'll take what I can get and keep my head down, if it means I can afford groceries." Then, they'll be able to hire back senior specialists at a massive discount.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I work in healthcare as a nurse. I can't see AI doing this. Esp. with ACA satisfaction scores. I still have patients with old flip-phones that don't really know how to turn them on or make a call.

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