CEO’s might never automate their jobs but unless you are at the top I doubt you will be safe.

Blue collar might be safe because there is very little standard from one scenario to the next. Even in something like a car, how the car is used/abused and how the car is maintained will add enough variance that will hinder AI from being efficient. In two homes with identical footprint/layout - how the rooms are used and wired/plumbed will make it impossible for AI to troubleshoot or fix unless it can see/predict everything.

White collar jobs are about to be impacted greatly and they will never see it coming. Disease diagnosis is becoming child’s play for AI who can identify the subtlest differences in comparison to tens of thousands of bodies before them.

I suspect the law and accounting will be no different as long as the AI can be fed enough data for them to compare.

Just going to leave this here:

https://youtube.com/shorts/pbm-aIrhcRo?feature=share

“That Mr Spacely is such a cruel boss. This morning he made me press three buttons!”

It’s such a small and simple act but it reveals so much about what is great about this guy.

There’s a great toy called Rory’s Story Cubes. They are nine dice with pictures on them. The way we play with these (my kid was 4) is to throw all 9 dice. Then I would casually guide the story with the kid making all the decisions.

I would ask where the story takes place and the kid would choose one of the images - say a fountain. I’d ask is the fountain in a park or in front of a house/building. I might follow up with “do you know of a park with a fountain?” While I might be thinking of an ornate sculpture, the kid might reply with the water fountain at the park.

Then I would ask who the story is about, with follow up questions about the subject’s demeanor or name. I would stop occasionally to see if the kid can recap our decisions.

Kids are remarkably fascinating. They are smarter than they appear. They often understand more than their vocabulary allows them to describe what they know.

Just sharing a story about the pennies. Years ago I started hanging out with (now) one of my closest friends. I’m a city kid through and through. He grew up in a small town in NC.

We were walking in Manhattan, me trying to go my brisker NY pace but he kept stopping and kneeling down - to tie his shoe?

Turns out he was turning over pennies so they were face up so the next person would get some good luck.

My biggest procrastination issue was getting ready and leaving the house in the AM for work.

I eventually solved this by waking up two hours early. I realized I just liked puttering around the house, having a second cup of coffee, while watching the news.

One night I was feeling restless so I simply got up early and started my day. I had two cups of coffee, read the newspaper, got into the car before rush hour and got to see the sunrise.

Obviously it doesn’t work for most scenarios.

Now that I’m retired here’s some funny insights. I used to be able to kill hours while I was working, just window shopping in the dollar stores or playing games. It’s easy when you are killing someone else’s time.

But now that I’m retired all those little things aren’t as fun when I’m just wasting MY time.

It will be fascinating to watch the various groups (teachers and artists so far) pushing back against these tools as they try to control the new tech.

It feels like they are both fighting the same fight - how do you determine and judge the amount of human effort behind human/AI collaborations?

Did you see the latest strategy by the anti AI art activists? Since they keep insisting the output is a wholly original piece free from any copyright rules and restrictions they have been forcing the AI to make images of Mickey Mouse.

This! I was trying to figure out how to write an intro letter to a corporation I hoped to work for that wasn’t geared toward new graduates or free internships and it offered a few templates easily

What is the copyright issues around you using their tool to come up with new creative sequences?

Say you used it to come up with a midi sequence that you use to create a billion dollar song… who wrote the song? It’s a for profit tool - do they deserve a cut?

It was always less how much you remembered and recalled, and more knowing where to look for the info and what info to look for.

I loved talking to Eliza but always wanted something to actually talk to like J.A.R.V.I.S. or Spidey’s version Karen.

How hard would it be to turn Chat into that?

Not really. I never used it for chats over coffee. I simply needed to ask simple questions like “where is your tv?”, “where do you use the internet?”, and “where is the electrical outlet?”

Just being able to get to that level of easy communication without (this was the Verizon way) calling up an 800 number, passing my cell to the customer, customer has a lively chat with the operator about why I’m here and what needs to be done, with me standing by stupidly while the operator over promises what I can do (of course he’s going to hide all the wires and feed your cat!!), and then ends the call, which inevitably leads to “can you point me toward an electrical outlet?” and puzzled looks.

Can you describe that sentence without props with hand gestures?

The closest “value” I can think of is a connection for a much older generation but that market disappears in a few years.

I was a cable installer. I was always flabbergasted to find adults, sometimes much younger than myself, completely overwhelmed by new tech and an abundance of choice.

Too many people didn’t want me to explain the remote control past “how to find my stories and change the volume”. Personally I got paid by the hour. If you needed me to teach you how to use on demand for an hour that was simply part of the job.

Having tactile keys to press could be useful to some of those luddites but I’m stretching to find a reason to sell this.

My (M60) WTF moment with tech that everyone else just shrugs over is the tech behind Google Translate.

I discovered Word Lens in 2010.

I was fascinated with Optical Character Recognition programs at the time - it was a way of taking a photo of text, recognizing the text well enough to not only understand what was written but create an editable file.

Word Lens took that to another level when it not only understood what was written but was able to translate it to another language almost as fast as it would take the camera lens to focus on that portion of the screen.

It’s even more impressive that the dictionaries were tiny.

I recall being fascinating by the Palm Pilots decades earlier - particularly the part where you were carrying around word processing and text editing capabilities in the palm of your hand. This was next level magic.

While the dictionaries were cheap - maybe $5 - nobody seemed to care enough to want to pay.

Fast forward to today, after Google buys Word Lens then folds it into their Google Translate and makes it just another feature that most of my peers just overlook.

I’m constantly looking for opportunities to use it. I read the free foreign language newspaper found in most major cities. I translate the menus of my favorite ethnic restaurants. As an installer, I used to create Flashcards in real time to communicate with my immigrant customers.

It really is Star Trek level tech

They make them fresh daily… you just don’t get to buy them right away.

I might need to rewatch this

Especially when it was posted earlier this week

OoOoOoh. My brain went to Vogue-ing but I couldn’t figure out the funnels.