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InterestsVaryGreatly t1_j4h3kir wrote

The CEO that owns the AI that makes other AI will be making bank. That profit won't disappear for them, it's just more incentive to do so.

Development jobs already exist, those are some of the "new jobs" of the internet age, you aren't going to see a huge uptick in those jobs as AI rolls out, they already are being done. We already have jobs built around making AI development faster too.

AI is already changing the culture. The recommendation algorithms online are run by AI. Future planning focuses majorly on AI. AI runs stock market trading for many firms. There are AI being developed to identify diseases that are already as good or better than the best doctors (one of the areas where they won't replace, but doctors will have their role changed, with traits around human interactions becoming significantly more important than any diagnostic capabilities); this tech is even already being used in places they don't have enough doctors.

As for lawyers, ChatGPT won't replace them, it's not meant to, but there IS a Lawyer AI that was designed to, and it's already started; Lawyers thinking they are irreplaceable is their hubris, not a reflection of AI (people once said machines would never replace railroad track laying). Likewise the AI art can just be trained on free datasets, and those issues go away - they've seen the model already works, retraining it isn't a real challenge. Students SHOULD get charged for plagiarism for using ChatGPT, but it's not easy to catch it unless they suddenly change mid semester, and that doesn't take away from the myriad of opportunities it unlocks for non-students. Self driving cars are really not that fallible, particularly the frontrunner (when was the last time you heard an issue with Waymo?); In non-inclement weather they are already exceptional and loads better than humans. When an AI crashes you hear about it because it's a big deal, they don't happen that often. There are thousands of car accidents with humans behind the wheel every single day, we don't hear about them because they are common. And while there are fewer self driving cars, they aren't outnumbered by that magnitude.

The automobile is a great example of AI replacing instead of supplementing; not for the human drivers (still needed taxi drivers, still needed semi drivers) but for the horse, because the automobile completely automated the need for horses - and they did not get shifted to new roles, they got massively downsized, relegated to recreation rather than productivity.

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