The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That’s going to crush Gen Z’s career path.

  • Obsession@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The fucked up part isn’t that AI work is replacing human work, it’s that we’re at a place as a society where this is a problem.

    More automation and less humans working should be a good thing, not something to fear.

  • Dnn@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Bullshit. Learn how to train new hires to do useful work instead of mundane bloat.

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      1 year ago

      100% if an AI can do the job just as well (or better) then there’s no reason we should be making a person do it.

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        Part of the problem with AI is that it requires significant skill to understand where AI goes wrong.

        As a basic example, get a language model like ChatGPT to edit writing. It can go very wrong, removing the wrong words, changing the tone, and making mistakes that an unlearned person does not understand. I’ve had foreign students use AI to write letters or responses and often the tone is all off. That’s one thing but the student doesn’t understand that they’ve written a weird letter. Same goes with grammar checking.

        This sets up a dangerous scenario where, to diagnose the results, you need to already have a deep understanding. This is in contrast to non-AI language checkers that are simpler to understand.

        Moreover as you can imagine the danger is that the people who are making decisions about hiring and restructuring may not understand this issue.

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          The good news is this means many of the jobs AI is “taking” will probably come back when people realize it isn’t actually as good as the hype implied

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            Not quite. It’s more that a job that once had 5-10 people and perhaps an “expert” supervisor will just be whittled down to the expert. Similarly, factories used to employ hundreds and a handful of supervisors to produce a widget. Now, they can employ a couple of supervisors and a handful of robot technicians to produce more widgets.

            • MurrayL@lemmy.world
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              The problem is, where do those experts come from? Expertise is earned through experience, and if all the entry-level jobs go away then eventually you’ll run out of experts.

              • biddy@feddit.nl
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                1 year ago

                Education. If education was free this wouldn’t be a problem, you could take a few more years at university to gain that experience instead of working in a junior role.

                This is the problem with capitalism, if you take too much without giving back, eventually there’s nothing left to take.

  • 6mementomori@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    tbf, if 99.9% of the jobs are replaced by ai, there won’t be a reason to work at all anymore. since you don’t have to pay the ai a wage, let it rest, give it vacations, etc. costs of basic needs may go so low that they could be redistributed for free. But that’s communism!!! Cringe!