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LincHayes t1_j6japkb wrote

5 years ago Cryto was supposed to collapse banking. 20 years ago the internet was supposed to kill small businesses. 40 years ago robotics was supposed to take the place of human workers.

Everytime new tech emerges people predict the that the sky is falling.

For every thing that becomes obsolete due to advances in technology, more jobs, businesses and opportunities are created based on that technology.

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jedi_tarzan t1_j6jbxwx wrote

Well Crypto is sort of the stand-out there.

But the other two absolutely did happen. Amazon is still killing mom and pop shops. They're not dead, but they're severely reduced.

And Industrialization absolutely decimated the manufacturing industry. At least in the developed world.

So following that trend, will these AI models replace all humans? No, of course not.

But jobs that used to be covered by 10 copy-writers or whatever will instead be handled be 1 one guy who knows how to maintain the AI cluster. There will be reduction in once "safe" jobs.

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LincHayes t1_j6jedhb wrote

Who maintains the robots? Who builds them? Who designs them?

I'm not saying it's shagnri la, I'm saying many other jobs are created to run and maintain the thing.

The problem is advances in technology replace low skill labor, and replaces it with high skill labor and education hasn't been keeping up. As a matter of fact, education is priced so far out of reach for so many people, that it creates a class system where only those who can afford it, gain the skills to get the new jobs.

It;s obviously more complex than that, but that's how I've seen it over the last 30 years.

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Pigtails_And_Anal t1_j6jf3cs wrote

That's great. But efficiency means less labor to achieve the same result. It happened in farming.

It will not take as many programmers to replace as many copywriters through their AI.

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LincHayes t1_j6jkvjq wrote

True, but this is a reality that goes back to the wheel, and permeates through the entire history of man on this planet.

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liberalannihilator9 t1_j6jc9tt wrote

Not the case with AGI. Everything you just mentioned did create jobs. But the vast majority of jobs created by AGI will be filled by AGI.

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