New Jobs of the AI Age | AI IRL

Do you think your job is safe from disruption by artificial intelligence? Guess again. AI is affecting almost every line of work. But contrary to popular opinion, it's probably not all doom and gloom.

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[josemosqueramoncaleano]

AI created and destroyed a job in less than a year (Prompt Engineering). The machine is better at prompting itself rather than any human... the horizon for jobs, as stated in the video, is a joke

[imsorryyourewelcome]

I'd really like to see more Justin Farris. Dude was obviously knowledgeable, overtly hesitant to make sweeping statements this early on, and crystal-clear about what he thinks and why. I am deeply surprised that I couldn't find more videos of him on YouTube.

[JulioMacarena]

Prompting will be gone in 5 years, or even less. Someone will just ask AI to solve a problem (of any sort) and it will go off and do it - even if it has to teach itself how to do an aspect of it. Let's not try to obfuscate the fact that it won't take that many people to ask AI things.

[NikoKun]

I honestly don't believe anyone who claims AI will create more new jobs than it displaces.. That claim is obvious nonsense, and ignores the very nature of what automating human cognition implies. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a doomer, and I see plenty of benefits and major improvements to society that AI could bring.. But if we're talking about "jobs" under capitalism, AI will only create new opportunities, for a small minority. The benefits will make it worth it, and we cannot stop the progress either way, however the implications of AI demand we let go of outdated mentalities and justifications for how we do things, that no longer make sense. We cannot require everyone compete, when super intelligent AI out competes them, nor can their ability to compete determine how we distribute resources to people. Major things about our society MUST change ASAP!

[rustyshackleford]

NO ONE KNOWS!!!!
Anything we can think of is like the “ learn to code” that lasted a spam of a few years. AI gets to a point where it benefits more by experimenting than by being told. When ai starts experimenting, it has the potential to learn at lightning speed.

[bigbadallybaby]

I agree that "prompt engineering" as a job will change rapidly over the next 3 years and might vanish in 5 years altogether as a skill set as Ai gets more and more sophisticated and intuative to what you want it to do. the same with most computer programming

[patrickparson]

I'm floored by the shameless lying going on here. There are more people unemployed now than there have ever been before. What on earth are these people talking about? The layoffs in IT over the last 3 years have been staggering. There were more layoffs in IT in 2023 than every other field in every other year combined. I'm disgusted by this level of dishonesty.

[bigmotherdotai]

AI capabilities only improve each year, they never get worse (this goes for any technology). Project that forwards 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100+ years. As AI technology monotonically improves - forever - it will gradually be able to do more and more economic tasks (jobs) currently performed by humans both better and more cheaply than any human. Even the "new" jobs, ostensibly created by AI, will eventually be better performed by AI than any human; if you don't think that's the case, then you're simply not projecting far enough forwards. (Some jobs, e.g. ballet dancer, will be extremely difficult to automate, but, as each year and decade passes, such jobs will become rarer and rarer.) No employer, either private or public sector, is ever going to employ a human to do a worse job than a machine (AI) for more money. Therefore, if you project this trend far enough into the future (not just 5 or 10 years, but 5 or 10 decades, or more) then the long-term trend is that, in the limit, all goods and services will be produced by machines, and humans will not be involved in production at all, only in consumption (100% unemployment). Thus (assuming that we don't self-destruct in the interim), the long-term societal changes induced by AI will be profound, broadly equivalent to an ice age. The vast amounts of wealth generated by AI (conservatively estimated to have a net present value of $13.5 quadrillion) will need to be redistributed, and this will of course be resisted by vested interests, leading to massive wealth inequality, both within and between nation states. Accordingly, it's a little more complicated than "should my children do a prompt engineering degree". They will be lucky to have jobs at all.

[FrozenAfricaPrincess]

The facial analysis screening is just sooo dystopian, HR phrenology in other words. Have the people who invent and implement these technologies never read a book before? Don't they know how these types of scenarios play out??

[johndowland]

bright future yeah.. before ai already there were 10 jobs for developers with 800 applicants each after 1 day from publication, now we'll have 2 jobs as "prompt engineers" instead, with 3500 (+ another 4000 since it's super easy to learn) applicants each.

[FreeDumb]

This is all cope. AI hasn't been user friendly for the past decade. ChatGPT changed that. Microsoft is about to bring it to the masses. The next decade will be completely different.

[fritzdeuces]

New Jobs of the AI Age like what... Prepper?

[marcinros]

Prompt engineerig will be just a history in 2 years..

[GaganXT]

I think the major hit will be for the software engineer's they pass exam and then learn high programming language but here we have an ai who knows better code then a college guy

[mrsrhardy]

Ai is allowing me to be more creative! Now I can generate an intro music clip with an animation and even have a custom one/into for each video I create. I can now Ai script and even read or voice-over sections in say, winston's churchills voice. Its making me more effective a story teller IMO. The better Ai gets the better I can get my message accross.

[boonkiathan]

its like you don't steer your children to be "a keyboard user"
prompting is a tool, a skill that is built on human language,
having expertise will be increasingly relevant to all professional work

[chaitanyabalanagu]

I was waiting for their discussion about the best domain to learn from scratch to become a better prompt engineer.

[Donut-God]

Humans could be reduced to "sensors for ai systems" in what we perceive to be objective reality. If Ai progresses, the main bottleneck will be material based as hardware for Compute or Engineered interfacing with the physical world similar to the 5 sense humans use to model reality. LLMs are using language to model reality currently. The Probabilistic Rendering of "Words and Context" models reality quite well.

[opeyemiojutiku]

It's Silly and misleading to say planes are flown by computers.... Human have to set the parameters within which the planes automated systems would work/perform depending on many other factors... I have a problem with arrogantly oversimplifying peoples expertise based on your limited knowledge.

[walkabout]

In the digital dawn, where circuits gleam,
AI whispers softly, in every stream.
Jobs evolving, a dance of change,
A positive outlook, in the AI range.

Contrary to gloom, a tale untold,
New jobs emerge, a future to unfold.
AI's touch, a creative spark,
Innovation blooms, in the digital arc.

From algorithms to machine learning's grace,
New opportunities find their place.
Human collaboration, a harmonious blend,
In the AI age, where pathways extend.

Fear not the change, the shifting tide,
AI IRL, a positive guide.
New jobs sprout, like blossoms bright,
In the landscape of the digital light.

Creativity thrives, as algorithms learn,
In the dance of progress, where futures turn.
Human potential, a boundless sea,
In the positive embrace of technology.

So, embrace the shift, the AI's page,
New jobs of the age, a positive stage.
In the realm of innovation, where dreams take flight,
AI IRL, a beacon of positive light.