- AI hype collapses as they are found out to be rubbish and uneconomic for doing anything useful, my job remains essentially the same but probably with more of the numbers and nicer pictures, possibly with less of the actual telling the computer and more interpreting what the people whose numbers they are actually want done with them and telling other people that
- AI turns out to be useful for defined, relatively boring use cases, my job remains essentially the same but increasingly involves telling AI how to do the stuff with the numbers, or telling AI to tell the computer how to do the stuff with the numbers, etc
- AI lives up to the boldest claims of its proponents and my job ceases to exist as the AI can do it all. Not sure what I do in that case as the AI will also have obsoleted the lab science stuff I used to do, the technical writing sort of stuff I could plausibly claim to be competent at, and the music related stuff I would do in the fantasy version where I was more talented at it and it paid well, but hopefully the AI-charged economy will be doing so brilliantly that I can retire at 63.
Will you still have a job in 10 years?
Re: Will you still have a job in 10 years?
As someone engaged in telling computers how to do stuff with other people’s numbers, the answer to this largely comes down to how well this AI stuff actually turns out to work for proper money-making use cases. It seems like this could turn out anywhere on a spectrum of:
Move-a… side, and let the mango through… let the mango through
Re: Will you still have a job in 10 years?
I'm another techie, and can't see AI coming close to doing the job I do
Part of the problem is that someone needs to understand what the customer actually needs when translated from what they say they want; the actual turning of requirements into solutions if precisely defined should be possible with AI, but I can still see myself explaining to people why what they're asking ChatGPT v12 to write for them isn't right.
I'll still be working in ten years, though: I don't think my pension will pay the cats' food bill
Part of the problem is that someone needs to understand what the customer actually needs when translated from what they say they want; the actual turning of requirements into solutions if precisely defined should be possible with AI, but I can still see myself explaining to people why what they're asking ChatGPT v12 to write for them isn't right.
I'll still be working in ten years, though: I don't think my pension will pay the cats' food bill