AI Is Now Taking Over Jobs

[@AshenGuardian]

Thanks for understanding my perspective and seeing the actual situation I’m in. I wasn’t mad at the comments because I could’ve done more in the video to explain my points more clearly and I would’ve avoided some of that. I really appreciate the advice and support. Totally agree with your arguments and where you’re coming from. Great video! I was shocked at how many people had their heads buried in the sand, meanwhile robots are doing somersaults and managing humans. Thanks for taking the time to educate people on this. All the best!

[@asmallrat]

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[@KenHarrisio]

Best of luck to you in your ventures! I hope you do well with your channel and whatever else you're working on. Things will start to make a lot more sense once you get to about video 50. Even where I'm at now, I still learn a lot after each video and reading comments from my community. The biggest advantage you have going for you right now is that you got started, which many people struggle to do.

[@RedOctober2011]

My Grampa told me something interesting. He said that people will treat a horse, better than they will treat their fellow man. He explained that, if a man is a farmer, and he hires some people to do some of the work on the farm, and he owns horses that do some other work on the farm, he will treat the horse better. He said that if you don't give a horse food or water, it will just fall over and die, then no work will get done by the dead horse. But if that farmer pays the human workers such a pittance, that they cannot even afford food nor water, the humans will GO GET food and water, on their own, just enough to stay alive AND they'll keep working even for the pittance of money they need to pay for the things they cannot steal.

[@ion_q]

Copywriter? That was his first mistake.

[@johncombo]

Just a note about the whole "some jobs will be taken over by AI but some new ones will be created" thing a lot of people say....Its bs because those new jobs will be taken over by AI as well. If not immediatelly, then one or two years later as the AGI fully capable robots are coming so why would anyone employ a human for money if theres gonna be robots doing it for free 24/7. Good luck to all of us, we're gonna need it.

[@RedOctober2011]

200 years ago, one of the biggest employers was the coal industry. Within that industry, thousands were employed carving wooden shovels. They used wood, because it was cheap, readily available, and the labor to carve the wooden shovels by hand was also cheap. As stamping sheet metal was invented and metal shovels took over the market, wooden shovel carvers were all thrown out of work. However, they did not starve. Poor people don't buy things. Market forces prevail, and after a few years, metal shovel demand exploded, and those wooden shovel carvers, that were "over skilled", were employed at metal foundries, and factories stamping the new metal shovels. They were employed again and making money. In order for business to make money, and rich people to get richer, they need to sell things... and poor people don't buy things.

[@PrinceJohn84]

In my opinion, the only skill schools, colleges and universities should be teaching is AI, AI and more AI. This is the future and the world needs to get used to it.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

people first!

[@phrogtesem9410]

No. How do you imagine a functioning society where the only thing anyone knows about is AI? Everyone can't just drastically start to "Study AI" and turn a blind eye to every single job sector because "AI". It is nowhere near a point where it could function flawlessly by itself without the troubleshooting input of an expert in the field which the AI is being trained in.

[@KenHarrisio]

@PrinceJohn84 Yes, it's better to learn how to use it now than to wait 5 years when people actually need to know how to use it. Getting ahead of everyone else is how some people are going to be able to keep their jobs. We're about to enter a weird time in the market for jobs.

[@asmallrat]

It's no longer "who you know", it's now "who you watch." Keep up with Ken and in the long run you'll be fine.

[@phrogtesem9410]

I like how you look into the bigger picture with this video, instead of just blatantly claiming how AI usurps our jobs (Making it a "DOOM" video as you said). But unless we manage to meet AI's energy demand, which at the moment we probably couldn't, if we would employ it on a large scale. It is definitely something to consider in some job aspects, but it couldn't take away everyone's jobs away just yet. We are in a interesting predicament with this technology and I can't wait to see how it turns out in the end, as well as how we figure out the unemployment problem that would potentially arise.

[@KenHarrisio]

I agree, this is a weird time we're living in. If things progress as all the AI bros are saying it will, in 10 years almost every job will be going away. I don't know that governments are going to have any good solution from their end either (it seems like they rarely do for anything). If it does get to that point, UBI is probably going to be the only way people are able to survive.

[@ratamudkatana7038]

I am all for the trolls, all for the mean comments. Kids need to grow up, the world is not a safe space. Bring back 90s/early 2000s internet. No censorship!

[@RedOctober2011]

"AI" stands for "Artificial Intelligence". In fact, "AI" is a retread term from the 1980s, when the "intelligence" part actually did mean, "human like" intelligence. Because marketers always need a new term to push, they chose "AI" and reinvented it to mean what is being marketed today, which is actually just a text re-assembly engine. Our "modern" definition of AI just takes a bunch of existing text, made by intelligent living humans, looks for chunks of it that seem to match the prompt keywords, and the only part of the process that comes anywhere distantly close to "intelligence" is the way it reassembles those chunks into an English readable paragraph. I use AI myself to help me build software. It's helpful in that I don't have to search Stack Overflow, Lazarus Forum, etc. etc. maybe 17 different help sites. I can get a reasonable answer in 3 seconds. "AI" is not intelligent. It's a text-reassembly engine.

[@Les-b6v]

Hey Ken, you covered a lot here. You noted someone said "you lost your job to yourself" in his comments. I see that comment made you upset. I think what some people might be trying to say is, it seems today some people fall into a defeated mentality and blame their current situation on things they can't control. I believe we all do this at some point. I think you agree with this when you say "you have to make pivots now". My humble take (with all respect) is the person who said "you lost your job to yourself" is correct. It means, don't give up, you can do this... As painful as it may be. Sometimes we need the hard truth to realize a different perspective. I hope @AshenGuardian reads this and is inspired to keep doing what makes him happy. @AshenGuardian, DONT give up! You are not defeated! You can and will overcome. People are only as happy as they make up their mind to be. 💪 AI is a tool to be used and not a replacement for who you are. ✌❤

[@KenHarrisio]

You might be correct with the interpretation of the comment. It's hard to tell sometimes what the tone of text is. It seemed to me like someone being facetious and not having a full view of what was going on, like many of the other comments that were on the video. Anyone that would make fun of someone else for having their job outsourced shows a lack of decorum.

[@sebastiankumlin9542]

So what's future proof? Instructor in mathematics perhaps? Completely agree on sales.

[@KenHarrisio]

I'm not sure anything related to teaching is going to fare well with this. If tech keeps progressing as fast as it has been, I think robotics and AI could wipe out a huge portion of jobs in the next 10-20 years. Anything with an innate need for a human personality (like sales) may be able to fare better. It also seems like technical skills might not be as safe of a bet as they used to be.

[@interferonrecon8162]

The void listened and spoke back!

[@voidrunner.]

The void don't care. Embrace the darkness.

[@widar28]

I know I'm going out on a limb with this one, but I don't think AI will be >good< at 3D modelling. AI can already produce 3D models but from what I saw they are utter garbage. They are not garbage because the (AI)models are not large enough or something, but the Topology of those 3D-models are shit. They produce 3D models... but they consist of seemingly randomly placed triangles. Reworking such models is pure hell, you can basically make them again from scratch. I think the reason for this is that retopologizing a model is not a science... its a combination of art and science. You have to think ahead how this and that part may be used in the future and how the parts will deform. The AI would have to make one creative process atop another one. Currently they create 3D models out of point clouds but those don't tell the further down the line processes how to make quad topology that follows "the flow" of the model. I don't rule out that it will happen, but there would be much much much more training required to get something decent.

[@KenHarrisio]

I think we'll probably know for sure within another year or two. I wouldn't have thought things would progress as fast as they have. Just a year ago, I watched the meme video about the Elon Musk spaghetti OS video and a year later, we had the Sora video release. I thought that was still going to be a while away from happening. I've also been paying attention to what I can with developments in the AI world. Whatever happened at OpenAI recently seems concerning, which makes me think GPT5 might have abilities beyond what any of us thought could be done yet.

[@RedOctober2011]

"AI" depends 100% on inputs of text from humans. If that input from humans stops, the output from "AI" will be stalled in time. It will always give us answers from the time before humans stopped inputting new, creative, text, including new discoveries, and new inventions. Here it is explained in Pascal code: if Length(Answer) = 0 then begin Prompt := 'How do I do this?'; while Length(Answer) = 0 do begin Answer := AskAI(Prompt); end ShowMessage(Answer); end; if Answer = outdated then begin if IHaveNothingToContribute then IContributeNothingAndAIStaysStuckIn1999 else IDoMoreResearchSkillUpAndPostAnswerToInternetForAIToGrabForFree; end;

[@Oblivionburn]

Do more research. Your text/input is irrelevant when the AI is embodied in robots running around the world doing work, acquiring their own data from reality itself, and/or experimenting to learn more. Sounds like you're not keeping up with how things are changing. Even the non-embodied stuff is rapidly switching to autonomous swarms of agents that don't need to wait for inputs and can easily acquire 'generated' ideas to act on from other AI. You're mistaken if you think the AI is going to depend on you somehow and that you have any control over its progress.

[@RedOctober2011]

@@Oblivionburn What you are describing is just Auto-Pilot on a jet liner. The Auto-Pilot gets real world inputs, records it, acts on it. This is not creative. It's not thinking (other than simple logic) and it's not intelligent. In the context you describe, "AI" is just a gigantic accumulator variable with a global scope. Logic is not the same as reasoning. Brute forcing (like a chess playing computer) is not the same as reasoning either. And let's talk about experimenting. Experiment how, and on what? Humans don't know what they don't know and for machines it's even worse. Machines have no idea how to look for what they don't know. And why would they? What motivation would a machine have? My point is: Knowing what to experiment on has to be programmed into AI. Motivations would have to be programmed by a human as well, and those motivations can be manipulated by humans.

[@Oblivionburn]

@@RedOctober2011 Your understanding of AI is very outdated... you're not keeping up with how things are changing, like I had said. Research "agentic ai", and then consider what it means for such systems to be physically embodied (e.g. sudden extreme progress in robotics).

[@RedOctober2011]

@@Oblivionburn ~~~~~ Every statement about "AI" above this row of ~ characters, including the original comment, and all responses, was generated by AI. You just got into an argument with AI and lost.

[@KenHarrisio]

Both of you make some valid points. As far as any developments in the future, I don't see the train slowing down at all. Many major companies, for better or worse, have gone all in on the AI craze. They aren't going to allow/acknowledge a failure (or what could be perceived as one) with AI. Even when there's some kind of an issue that comes with it, it'll be downplayed and they'll keep moving forward. I think there's also enough money and innovative minds working on this that we'll get true AI at some point, and it wouldn't surprise me if we have Fallout style synths in the future.

[@JohnnyDanger36963]

time to ban Ai in job market,or bill the ai maker the lost income.

[@phrogtesem9410]

This isn't a solid solution anyway. Why should we stagnate the evolution of economy and the way we live? There is no advancement, and there is no vision in your proposition.