Re:Jon Stewart on AI: It's replacing us in the workforce now
by musicale on Sunday April 07, 2024 @04:12PM
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For most businesses, AI works basically the same as any other kind of automation:
1) increasing output for the same labor costs
2) reducing labor costs by replacing humans with machines
The interesting difference is that AI can automate a wide range of "creative" and "knowledge worker" jobs that formerly resisted automation, so many tech workers (and others) may suddenly become unemployed (and possibly unemployable), much as human network and system administrator jobs were mostly eliminated in cloud computing and replaced by software.
1) increasing output for the same labor costs
2) reducing labor costs by replacing humans with machines
The interesting difference is that AI can automate a wide range of "creative" and "knowledge worker" jobs that formerly resisted automation, so many tech workers (and others) may suddenly become unemployed (and possibly unemployable), much as human network and system administrator jobs were mostly eliminated in cloud computing and replaced by software.