AI may not steal many jobs after all; it may just make workers more efficient

this article won't age well. come back in 5 years.

in a perfect world for companies, having zero employees and just some management types to collect bonuses is the goal.

if you're a software developer, you'll be out of work in 5 years.

uber and lyft have lost billions and billions, waiting for driverless cars.

all of those cubicle dwellers in article are feeding the learning model with prompts and replies, as they're called in ai. once the catalog is sufficient, they'll be gone.

It hasn't taken those jobs. . .yet. Pandora's box has been opened. Stand by for more layoffs over the coming months and years.

I doubt a higher efficiency, because we have now faster and much more 'results' or AI output, of which a too high part contains errors, fakes, hallucinations etc, so that we have to check and validate each of those now more received results. Instead of more efficiency we will see a much higher workload and of course that will culminate into complete uselessness, and not to forget the higher wasting of energy and other resources. Just forget this misleading path in general.

Actually, it is gobbling up jobs as we speak. The limit for this thing will be energy. Consumption is increasing exponentially with every new generation, similar to the crypto mining situation.

When computers first showed up in the workplace (I'm old enough to have used old monochrome consoles with the screen and keyboard in one unit with a dot matrix printer sitting alongside, pre internet btw) the story being told was about how much easier they would make our work. Well that sure didn't turn out to be true.

I suspect that like any other tool, AI will be leveraged by employers to get more work out of their employees. "Oh, you have this tool now, you can produce so much more". And that's what will happen. The flip side of being "more efficient" is being expected to produce more in the same amount of time.

Whatever. Some jobs will disappear while other jobs will appear. People will work more for less no matter how productive they are.

Alorica wouldn’t need to hire a rep who speaks Cantonese.

He may not be cutting jobs in his company (for now) but he is indirectly increasing the chances of a Cantonese translator becoming unemployed. Now extrapolate that out over the entire economy.

And the scary thing is that the AI revolution has only just started.

Handling 8 calls an hour instead of 6 due to AI? "We want you to handle 10-12 from now on." Conversations for those who are "lucky" to remain.