I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job

Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by jasfi on Monday September 18, 2023 @02:23AM (#37552885)

You need to evolve with changes in tech. A technology evangelist should focus more on networking, attending conferences and talking to executives, in person if possible. That is, focus on the human touch.

Another avenue is that of influencer on social media.

If we was mainly doing writing articles, then that made him easy to replace.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by stavros on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:10AM (#37553929)

Sure, but you can't always do that. A farrier can't just evolve to be a car mechanic.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by NavinF on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:55AM (#37554182)

They can with training. That's exactly what happened when horses became less common

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by DonsDiscountGas on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:38AM (#37554865)

Learning new things takes time. When we were inventing new machines once per generation, that means workers needed to learn new skills once per generation, which is completely achievable.

If we can train AIs faster than human beings can learn new things, there's no way for people to keep up. Even if AIs are a bit slower that's still an issue. Imagine getting a new masters degree every 5 years.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by NavinF on Monday September 18, 2023 @08:27AM (#37555218)

I think we both agree that people who learn new skills only once per generation are not gonna make it. That's what I meant by "skill issue"

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by syndicatedjelly on Sunday September 24, 2023 @11:42AM (#37634105)

Why is that an automatically agreeable opinion? There are a lot of people in professional trades who go to school once in their career, and then periodically augment their skills. But they don't go and get a whole new degree every few years just to continue to have a job

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by DonsDiscountGas on Monday September 18, 2023 @07:36AM (#37554849)

"AI will turn us all into schmoozers and social media influencers" may very well be true, and it's extremely dystopian.

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Re:I Promoted AI for Years and Automated Myself Out of a Job by datadrivenangel on Monday September 18, 2023 @09:15AM (#37555659)

On our way to a socialist utopia!

At some point, we're all pretending to work 100% of the time, and can just... stop.

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