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natepriv22 t1_j6j7g1n wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in What jobs will be one of the last remaining ones? by MrCensoredFace

Don't prepare for the future, live in the present

Literally one of the most destructive ideas in history and the present.

Ironically by giving this advice you are more likely to doom someone to job obsolescence...

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Absolute-Nobody0079 t1_j6k90ij wrote

Live in the present is a really botched translation of Buddha's teaching.

It's actually closer to 'be focused and diligent to present.'

See, I hate hippie translators.

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Cryptizard t1_j6jg1rm wrote

We have no way to know what is going to happen, even in the near future. Any job could be replace. Better to study something you are interested in, at least it will be personally fulfilling to you.

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monsieurpooh t1_j6lds65 wrote

It mainly applies to specific situations especially where one might use it as an excuse to not do something you want. In 2018 I was onboarded as the musical composer for a short film. ETA for this film was 2 whole years. At that time we already had VQGAN and GPT-2 (maybe GPT-3 I don't remember) and various AI composers like Jukebox. I was thinking wow by the time we're done we'll have AI-generated TV shows and music already. But we still don't have human-level AI movies/music today, and we finished the short film and it's called Let's Eat on youtube.

In 2021 I was playing with GPT-3 Da Vinci on OpenAI and realized it was possible to make a game like AI Dungeon except have it actually be a game. I was like wow by the time I'm done making this game we'll have AI-generated 3D games. But we don't yet really, and AI Roguelite is now on Steam.

There are now tons of people lamenting their choice of majority in CS or whatever just because some AI can sort of write code. They wish they'd been a plumber or whatever. But we don't actually know yet how much the demand for programmers will downsize, if at all.

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