How AI Is Already Reshaping White-Collar Work | WSJ

[@nanthawatkridakorn9015]

This entire video could have been written by AI for all we know.

[@soberanisfam1323]

Are you ai and/or a bott

[@hle144]

You mean Skynet…

[@marsyu5816]

禁止套娃😂

[@INTELLIGENCE_Revolution]

It was

[@BOMBON187]

When a CEO says they're not do doing any layoffs, they will be laying off people.

[@general_electrics]

People seem to fall into two categories. Those who underestimate AI because they don't understand it. And those who over-estimate AI because they don't understand it.

[@symphoniez]

Well said.

[@crazypasta7749]

See with Ai it's the quality of input is equal to quality of output soo If your input is garbage then output will also be garbage 😂😂😂

[@TheManinBlack9054]

@@symphoniez no, its not well-said, its horribly said, there is only one category: those who underestimate AI. You cannot possibly overestimate AI if you know what it is and what it can lead to.

[@symphoniez]

@@TheManinBlack9054 I interpreted his comment as over estimate the risk of AI and its down sides.

[@j.j.9538]

You can never underestimate AI

[@josidasilva5515]

replace politicians with AI

[@Matt-rw9py]

Smart but what if AI has neo-nazi and environmentalist political views and would decide to exterminate 99% of the population?

[@MrSupernova111]

I vote for that!

[@Hans5958]

You want Skynet to be real?

[@Ash97345]

@@Hans5958 yes

[@Misaka-gt5yj]

@@Hans5958 Tbh, with the current pace our human scum politicians are taking things, It'll be way worse than skynet.

[@ArnoldVeeman]

I know my job as a composer will probably be replaced by ai, but I find it bittersweet (I know I am not allowed to think that way) that AI is also coming for the people that rejected my work because they rather used stock music (because it's cheaper, eventually) instead of a hand crafted original motion soundtrack. But as I said for so many times: true quality will always prevail...

[@imbored3782]

As a music student, I thank you for your dedication to the beauty and art of handcrafted music

[@everythingisfine9988]

Live gigs and top talent will continue working. People who use auto-tune will not

[@wuy4]

I agree with your statement "true quality will always prevail"

[@channeling764]

I’m so happy that those micro ableists are going to get self consumed by AI.

[@ArnoldVeeman]

@@channeling764 me too ;-)

[@davidecappelli9961]

I’m just concerned. Very few rich will get richer, the rest will get catastrophically poorer and miserable.

[@nonapplicable3055]

Yes, but then we RIOT, and reset society lol

[@wangstick]

This is a good time to restart the conversation around taxing businesses to fund universal basic income. If people aren’t paid because robots do work, the economy can’t function.

[@RapstarSurya]

Agreed

[@TomNook.]

Andrew Yang saw this almost 10 years ago!

[@homelesseconomist]

A land value tax would be a much more sustainable source of revenue to provide a UBI

[@Whooshta]

Or... and hear me out. Instead of the very short sighted UBI bandaid. We look at reworking our entire economy, supply chain and system of values as a species.

[@PaperTowelSauce]

Government’s money management has a poor track record. I think we better off leaving it to the private market.

[@kevinbouy]

Andrew Yang warned us about this years ago, and people laughed at him

[@denniszenanywhere]

They didn't get the context of what he was saying back then -- especially the AI part. If he run for president next year, people will look at him differently.

[@gonzalezm244]

God I wish he’d been president, he’d have a plan for this.

[@superandreanintendo]

And still many won't get it now

[@TheSeaOfAsher]

@@gonzalezm244 You still got congress to impede him. Changing the president will do nothing really. The collective mentality is too eroded to change. Very self-interest.

[@zerocal76]

@@gonzalezm244 if you think a president can make THAT much of an impact, especially w/ something as powerful as AI, you have a lot to learn about the world. The president is who's actually running the nation or even making big decisions, not even close.

[@ceefar10]

Annoys me so much that huge companies could *easily* use the extra resources that AI frees up from repetitive tasks to improve their products and systems… cybersecurity, ui/ux, customer service, etc, all areas most companies are already lacking in, but no… just fire workers and pocket the change. Imo might help if governments would give tax breaks to companies that are committed to generating jobs in the wake of AI, and slap more tax on those that are stripping their workforce while still generating record profits…

[@jonatand2045]

Then means punishing companies that are successful. Profit is the reward for productivity. Reduce that reward and you reduce the incentive to innovate and grow. Other companies try to keep up, so eventually prices get lowered and profits get back to normal. What you propose slows the cycle.

[@50jakecs]

@@jonatand2045 And it's short-sighted thinking like yours why human society is going down the tubes. If the ONLY goal is making money, then we might as well just turn the world over to the cockroaches.

[@jonatand2045]

@@50jakecs Profit is a means to an end, which is to make people produce and innovate. You didn't pay attention to what i said.

[@extremelynice]

Because AI doesn't work... Otherwise yes, they would totally do that.

[@jebprime]

@@jonatand2045 More profit != more innovation. A lot of examples out there including pharmaceutical companies or monopolies.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

AI spits out scripts in 10 minutes and CGI fills in the action and talent. Can't stop progress.

[@Mrhellslayerz]

It'd be nice if that passion for progress was directed to a more compatible and stable economy. That way this wouldn't be so much of an issue for everybody.

[@KJ-xc6qs]

Studio Heads have never been nice or charitable.@@Mrhellslayerz

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@KJ-xc6qs A stable economy that can work with AI is considered charity now? Did you stop reading my comment after the third word?

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@Ilovejoebidenforever Wow, it's like nobody has any capacity to read. Aside from your weird disdain of charity (and no understanding of its purpose), how exactly are you misinterpreting a stable economy that can work with AI as charity?

[@Mrhellslayerz]

@@Ilovejoebidenforever Benefiting society 'till doing that no longer benefits you then? Gotcha.

[@bobbyj731]

AI is very limited currently and crazy expensive for the good stuff. Currently, artificial intelligence (AI) does not possess true intelligence as it lacks the ability to think critically and creatively like humans. While AI can perform complex calculations and learn from data patterns, it is limited by its programming and lack of emotional intelligence. True intelligence requires consciousness, self-awareness, and the ability to make decisions based on intuition and experience - all qualities that are uniquely human. As technology advances, AI may become more sophisticated, but for now, it remains a tool designed to assist humans in specific tasks rather than an independent thinker.

[@jdzzz7]

yes but don't you think people that work repetitively on a certain task classified as something or the current AI can replace?

[@jdzzz7]

it will catch up to it eventually whether you like it or not

[@jdzzz7]

i like the way you put it.@PatRisberg

[@galaxy1234]

You are underestimating. AI is rapidly improving

[@ds9wormhole]

Its already happening. I was forced to retire 2 years ago because my telecommunications job was switched from internal engineering database recordkeeping to customer service to teach customers how to use their website for their issues. Hence, helping the public learn to do our jobs with A.I. chat so we wouldn't have jobs. My daughter just resigned because of the same thing. She was customer service loyalty representative and her company switched her over to mandatory sales. The commonality for us...union jobs. That's right, A.I. was designed to eliminate white collar AND union jobs.

[@-schattenpflanze-3755]

AI is not a problem, capitalism is. We, as a community and as humans, need to come together and find an ultimate solution for the next economical system, in order to abolish capitalism once and for all, only so we can reach a new stage of existence.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

You got it! Unchecked growth on a planet with finite resources was only ever designed to benefit a very small number of people

[@demodiums7216]

I agree.....thats why i think we are screwed

[@-schattenpflanze-3755]

@@demodiums7216 people need to stop breeding thats the root of all evil, in a decade we will have 9 BILLION humans! Each human contributes towards a loss of biodiversity, a loss of valuable resources, a loss of housing for others, a loss of money, and with AI on the rise as well: a loss of jobs. I dont wish to be born right now thats for sure.

[@featherfiend9095]

I think it’s pretty clear that AI should be used to level the playing field between employer and employee. If AI is gonna replace workers then it should replace the bosses as well. My greatest concern with AI is not AI itself but the centralization of it to a small handful of people. I doubt most people want to be at the complete mercy of the “benevolence” of those at the top. At least rn in the western world we have some rights to protect us from abuse. But what happens when those rights disappear because the people don’t have the power to keep their leaders in check?

[@j.j.9538]

We dont have to worry about it. Rich people will eliminate us all. They'll have aim-assisted AI robots very soon

[@chrisf1600]

If AI can do anything about the narrator's vocal fry, i'm all for it

[@justinleemiller]

Plumber, electrician, carpenter, welder, HVAC technician, automotive technician, hairstylist, makeup artist, chef, baker, bartender, massage therapist, fitness trainer, landscape gardener, housekeeper, tailor, locksmith, plumber, painter, nanny , bricklayer, astronaut, surgeon, nurse, dental technician, caregiver, archivist, sports coach, mail carrier, etc not going away in the near future

[@extremelynice]

They aren't going away ever. But they will have better tools and will do the work that they want, without doing the work which they don't want. AI is NOT one of such tools, and AI will have nothing to do with that. On contrary, when we will give up this useless idea of AI and similar ideas, we will be able to achieve this.

[@david-rd2qc]

If AI can replace research and development then…oh boy…. no job will be safe lol 😂

[@lolcatjunior]

Look up modular construction/prefabrication. You can build homes lighting fast in factories, faster than traditional construction.

[@exriodonorte67]

@@lolcatjunior Exactly, you can actually substitute all those jobs with AI.

[@riccardo1180]

Bro there are also ai robot that can do message therapy. Your ideas and concept are only stricted by some desk jobs. Ai and robots are not limitated in these areas.

[@sommmeguy]

How do i know that the only job AI won't replace is CEO and Board Member.

[@thealaskanbascan6277]

We need to really have a conversation about UBI now.

[@Learna_Hydralis]

The fear that some poor countries will be left out of UBI conversation, either truly universal or we will witness horrible events in the world!

[@kompila]

UBI is a terrible idea.

[@yusufyasaf8010]

​@@Learna_Hydralispropaganda is prolly cheaper than ubi. It's not horrible if people that died were communists and poor!

[@clonosaurios]

@@kompila why?

[@GrumpDog]

@@kompila It's the best idea suggested so far. If AI takes over the economy, it owes us an AI Dividend, for the data it took from all of us, to train it, and for the implications it has on our ability to compete for an income.

[@brianthesnail3815]

My sons are commercial lawyers working in international crossborder deals. They say that the routine work of documentation is already under threat from AI. Only the uniquely creative work they do in negotiations can keep them ahead. I work in a high skill very technical policy area and I am an expert commercial financial advisor. My knowledge is all available in databases in theory. The problem is that my younger colleagues don't know what they need to know from those databases. I can tell them in minutes and save them weeks of work. If they used AI they might put the the right key words into an AI tool to write the policy document they have been tasked with by sheer luck but they wouldn't know if the answers were right. Even then AI can't do novel policy work. AI is very good at replicating and developing variants of existing work - which is what a lot of law documents are especially in codified law systems.

[@nonapplicable3055]

Thats the level A.I. is on now, but then again 20 years ago we were talking on flip phones 😂. Technology evolving faster than we can create new generation. It's about to get very interesting.

[@brianthesnail3815]

@@nonapplicable3055 I am old enough to have used Telex machines before the internet existed. One of my young colleagues said I was 'wise'' the other day. Cheeky mare. I know she means old! 😒

[@RegularRegs]

the fact that UBI is still not being talked about is extremely concerning. Also, please extrapolate out the robotics problem. If there is an AGI that can write code and engineer at a super human level, it will be VERY soon that we have bipedal robots being made. Which will then take over most jobs period. Anyone that sees how surface level this video is, please look up "AI post labor economics". We are in a lot more trouble than mainstream media are telling you. Listen to experts, not executives.

[@extremelynice]

There are no programs that have such capabilities. And never will be...

[@mihirvd01]

@@extremelynice You seem extremely positive.

[@atomisticpartb525]

You are right. All the tech already exists. The universities and private labs, google, and governments have extremely advanced ai and connected technologies. The public remains totally unaware of it. I think if people knew there would be mass hysteria. As a human race, we must fight back against AI. AI is the common enemy of humanity. End of discussion!

[@extremelynice]

@@mihirvd01 If simply being realistic to you seems like being extremely positive, then it’s your problem, not mine.

[@RegularRegs]

@@extremelynice open your mind a bit, first of all there are UBI experiments happening in small pockets of the world, and what do you suggest when AI and robots take over 80 % of the workforce?

[@DeusShaggy]

UBI for all!

[@GrumpDog]

Yup. AI owes everyone an AI Dividend. People used to ask me who pays for Unconditional Basic Income, well now we can tell them "AI will". lol

[@gilian2587]

Equal access to AI as a basic human right will probably have more utility for people in the long term, I think. UBI might need to be a stopgap measure in the shorter term.

[@j.j.9538]

The rich could just eleminate all of us instead. They're going to have aim-assisted Ai robots after all

[@MementoMori_2070]

Things are getting weird

[@Blue-pd3dv]

The funniest thing so far is someone using ai writing emails and another person summarizing it with another ai…I trust humans can be replicated in this process 😂

[@isaacl.2264]

Maybe we can ask AI to solve the problems AI will cause labor

[@extremelynice]

You can ask it whatever you want, the AI is written by people and does only what people had put in it. Stupid people write stupid algorithms and then stupid people are adopting those stupid algorithms. Do you see the pattern? Should I even continue? How about you stop being stupid for starters?

[@JosiahWarren]

Congrats you understand recursion. I knight you junior software engineer

[@demodiums7216]

​@@AstreinWlmao

[@tooreal8968]

I am about to start working in a big accounting firm and I don't see anything that I or other accountants do that can't be replaced by AI.

[@GoodfellasNYC]

You don't need to worry about that. I'm an accountant myself. Only low level accounting jobs like payroll or accounts receivable jobs will disappear

[@GoodfellasNYC]

Best of luck 👍

[@mbg9650]

The genie is out the bottle.

[@extremelynice]

The genie never was in the bottle. You think, that the former devotion to fascism, communism, fraud, and akin, is something different from the current devotion to AI?

[@DarkWizardGG]

Yeah, and theres no returning back & it's inevitable now!

[@peteolesen265]

How does an economy work when we all workers have been replaced? Does money even matter? How do you compensate a bot? What happens when the AI goes on strike or doesn’t want to work anymore? When it becomes smart enough where it doesn’t want or need a job. Will it have rights and be able to vote?

[@NewBlueTrue]

They haven’t thought that far. When using AI starts hurting their bottom line, that’s when they’ll start trying to compensate displaced workers

[@paladinsorcerer67]

Using AI is a choice. The people in charge of making that choice will claim that they are helpless against the inevitable forces of competition which force their hand. And they will be shielded from the consequences, as they gain more money for shareholders and for themselves at the expense of the workers who are laid off. The idea that workers will get new, different, more interesting work should consider what happened to factory workers who's jobs were outsourced, who ended up working in low paying retail jobs. The people in power seeking profit only care about themselves. They shouldnt be allowed to make decisions that will undermine worker's rights. Worker solidarity needs to be re-established, as it seems to be at an all-time low. The powerful divide and conquer us, paying off those people who survive rounds of layoffs, so that workers are incentivized to avoid supporting one another, especially white collar workers. Strikes can combat layoffs, but once layoffs happen, workers lose their leverage. Solidarity with consumers can change company policies, but it never happens because consumers act as individuals in the economy, with no incentive to support higher-level issues. Look at how lackidaisical climate change progress is being made, needing strong input from government to advance. Until workers and consumers get educated and start demanding that their groups are remunerated properly for their inherint worth, robber barons will steal anything that is not nailed down.

[@louididdy]

2:53 - High Rising Tone “justification for layoffs?” Ugh 3:33 - At OpenAi?

[@StealthyDead]

One of the top industries least likely to be replaced by automation is construction. At least in the foreseeable future. I'm joining the international union of operating engineers like several generations of the men in my family. Good pay, good benefits, good job security.

[@ChadHutsebautfilms]

Exactly! While we are going to see the loss of white collar knowledge work, we also have a housing supply crisis that requires us to start converting offices into apartments and build infill multiplex housing in existing neighbourhoods at a scale we haven’t seen before. That’s going to require a loooot of people entering the trades and I can promise you those jobs are not at risk of automation any time within the next 20 years. We also have an aging population that’s Going to require a lot more healthcare workers and care takers which are never going to be fully replaced. I understand why people would be afraid of ai if they are in a job that’s replaceable , but this idea that we are going to automate so much there just won’t be any jobs left, and we will all need UBI is absurd. There will always be work that needs to be done that a computer or robot can not do.

[@runvnc208]

Sure, for the next 5-10 years. But the technology will not stand still. Tesla seems to be making fast progress. There will be an enormous increase in funding for serious research into usable humanoid robots. And there are breakthroughs with artificial muscles and 3d printing coming down the line within the next 10 years or so.

[@Hindu_Ram121]

Have you seen Boston Dynamics Atlas?? That thing is running up and down, doing backflips. I give construction field a max of 15 yrs to be replaced by AI.

[@jamesclarke2789]

With the development of modular housing and other types of prefabricated housing, where much of the actual construction is done within a capital-intensive factory environment rather than labour-intensive construction-site environment, I wouldn't be so sure. It means that labour needs in the construction industry can shift in a similar way to how labour needs in the manufacturing industry shifted from the 1970s onwards. Automation or cheaper overseas outsourcing, combined with a smaller domestic workforce.

[@Hindu_Ram121]

@@ChadHutsebautfilms housing crisis can be averted by simply closing the borders and stopping immigration. Infact many current crisis can be stopped.

[@tutacat]

Don't say middle class! It's not middle class, middle classis very small.

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

People who never invested anything into their education and skills will be the easiest to replace. People who are NPCs. These people are already like robots and will be discarded like robots for a new and better tool.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

And the reason they didn’t invest in more education or training is the high cost, plus time to work a job, go to school, raise a family. To put this back on the workers is disengenious

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school There are plenty of those who dont care about education. It being expensive is the least of the causes for it.

[@juanis8219]

@@lazarusblackwell6988 are you really so far removed from reality to say that a major portion of people don’t go to school because they don’t care?? LOL

[@TerryTappArt]

Why isn't AI replacing CEOs?

[@riumudamc4686]

CEO jobs are highly competitive. Many people want them and they usually attract very intelligent people who can think beyond doing basic tasks.

[@TerryTappArt]

@@riumudamc4686 That's a real asskissing award for you!

[@riumudamc4686]

@@TerryTappArtAre you denying that it is highly competitive to become a CEO?

[@nonapplicable3055]

​@@riumudamc4686It's highly competitive because shareholders need a good dog to watch over their vested interest. Very few CEOs are solving complex issues on a daily basis. In fact AI can and will replace CEO, due to the fact that CEOs are rarely creative geniuses.

[@OpenBiolabsGuy]

Corporations have always wanted free or cheap as free labor. It’s the source of many of our country’s problems. Whether it’s slavery, child labor, hiring illegal immigrants, shipping jobs overseas to countries that don’t care about exploiting workers, or replacing people with technology including AI. It all ties back to greedy corporate leadership that craves free labor or at least an easily exploited and cheap work force.

[@jzisers]

AI’s mind is living in the sci-fi world!

[@extremelynice]

AI itself is pretty much a sci-fi at this point. Although, it's rather just fiction, without science.

[@mikef2811]

If AI takes over all those jobs in the future than where will the consumers come from? NO money, NO buy.

[@-schattenpflanze-3755]

Money will eventually go, we will digitalize currency/crypto it and eventually the only thing that will be traded is information and energy, which of course are the very things the universe is made out of in some way

[@ChickenOfMajesty]

The chicken at 1:11 looks exactly like my profile picture. What on earth.

[@totoroben]

It would be great to embrace AI with the intention of making a more equitable socialist society in which everyone isn't required to work to survive, but this isn't going to be popular with our oligarchy overlords.

[@idiotsloveboxes]

Learn to co…… Oh wait……. Learn to mow lawns……

[@Mr.Anugraha]

😂 yeah

[@bobbbobb4663]

Learn to debug. Root Cause Analysis is a lost art and somebody has to figure things out when they don’t work.

[@winzyl9546]

You cant even do that anymore. Only a matter of time before a rumba lawn mower with an ai.

[@Ms.Robot.]

Where's the market to buy your product if you use robots to work for you but no one has a job??? (Mr. Bean doesn't answer……scratches his head with that puzzled look )

[@GrumpDog]

That's another reason why there's a good chance even the wealthy will eventually push for there to be a UBI or AI Dividend. The simply need to maintain a consumer base, even if people cannot compete with AI to generate income. If AI took all our data to create, and threatens our ability to compete for income.. Then it owes us all an AI Dividend.

[@gilian2587]

Here's two people thinking with their noggins!

[@Ms.Robot.]

@GrumpDog Good reply. (That's rare.) A year ago, I originally thought about your idea. There will have to be an international consensus because of how it will impact the world markets. Then there's politics. He who controls the flow of payouts might just as well control the world, or those subject to his contingent. The support or opposition towards such ideas can vary among wealthy individuals and elites. Some individuals may see UBI or AI dividends as a means to address income inequality and provide a safety net in an increasingly automated world. Others may have different perspectives, such as concerns about the potential impact on work incentives or the sustainability and economic implications of implementing such policies. Ultimately, the adoption of UBI or AI dividends would depend on various factors, including political dynamics, economic considerations, public opinion, and societal priorities. It's important to note that discussions around these concepts involve a wide range of perspectives and considerations beyond the influence of any specific group or individuals.

[@mtchhsr]

I think old people are more worried about this than young folks. Like, most older white collar professionals struggle to unmute their microphones. How’re they gonna learn how to adapt to and use wildly novel and advanced technologies? I’m looking forward to AI stuff coming for my job because it’ll only make things easier. I can spend more time working on more complicated tasks (like supporting executives who don’t know how to change the line spacing in a Word document).

[@major__kong]

News flash. I'm 51 and often find myself helping younger coworkers through new tools. I also help them understand office and online etiquette. You can be inflexible at any age

[@fintech1378]

You are a bit too optimistic

[@mtchhsr]

@ForbiddenMiloVideos oddly enough, my first job out of college was plumbing (technically it was installing pumps in wells, but plumbing adjacent). There will be plenty of jobs in the future. It’s fun and easy to be pessimistic about new technologies. The reality is people will always be in the loop. As both producers and consumers of goods and services, humans direct where other humans will be needed/wanted in the future. The value of labor will adjust to find a new equilibrium between costs of inputs and the income of outputs. People want their coffee handed to them by a person with a smile, it’s nice to talk to a real person at your bank instead of a robot, and items that require the care and touch of a human to produce have an intrinsic value beyond the sum of their components. Maybe there will be more artisan bakers or more yacht workers or more porn stars in the future, but whatever it is, people will direct others there by where they spend their money. Just don’t spend your money on products produced only by AIs and we’ll be fine.

[@thehangingparsiple5692]

​@@davealexander59 Great point 👌

[@cervenypes123]

At least we don't have to worry about getting old.

[@Evangelionism]

Hollywood's biggest studios have far too many bloated writers rooms, and like Meta, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and media companies across the country, we see not only no negative impacts in downsizing human capital accommodations, but upticks in both productivity and cost efficiencies. For the strikes, many - not all, but many - on the picket lines historically have been costing studios painstaking amounts of money, PR, market share, and in some cases litigation, due in large part to their production personnel - including actors, writers, directors, executives - going on sites like Twitter and Instagram and deliberately and recklessly causing or instigating controversy, promoting social division, making extreme political remarks, trashing and abusing fans, bashing both fans and employers, and so forth, and as anyone familiar knows, it reflects poorly on the studios and publishers, always. With AI, industry employers need not worry about a rogue or unhinged worker villainizing communities, getting political, or damaging upcoming or ongoing properties with controversial, unsolicited opinions, which is why we can expect studios and publishers everywhere to leverage strong stipulations if they do agree to restrict employment of AI: for one, studios would want tighter leashes on their workers' online presences and guarantees regarding what activity is allowed and what will not he tolerated. They will likely negotiate (if their lawyers are at all intelligent, that is) terms in which payouts and residuals, especially for streaming (a volitile, risky industry in itself that has costed Disney millions of clients and dollars), are correlated to yield. Meaning, the rates at which workers are compensated are compounded based on performance, and th largest companies with the most losses can and shoukd be exoected to leverage lower base rates against any demands for job security or term guarantees. At the very least, corporate HW should be antipated to accord based on the (accurate) position that, as the ones assimilating risks during every hire (Victoria Alonso, Kathleen Kennedy, etc ), they are providing economic opportunities and benefits to actors, writers, and any other workers, who are entitled to fair compensation that is *tied to performance,* not the other way around. In my opinion, while yes, Hollywood is like a dream to many people seeking to make it big at one of the massive conglomerates with shiny properties loved by millions, this is fundamentslly and overtly a business, and one involving skin and blood - something current, upstart generations fail to relate to, hence entitlement.

[@sngs9565]

Can CEO jobs being replaced by AI? Oh...yes! The real question is whether AI increases productivity or NOT?

[@LynMildner]

The writers guild should better be replaced by ai judging by the last movies that came out

[@extremelynice]

Running garbage movies through the garbage algorithm. Guess yourself what will come out...

[@gilian2587]

Current AI is not intelligent enough to be of much use in this regard, at the moment.

[@Pontiakos]

The last sentence is impossible. Without a UBI we should expect a breakdown of the little social cohesion that exists.

[@oldhollywoodbriar]

Oscar Wilde wrote that one day automatons would do all the labor and leave each person to find their inner artist. In reality AI is going to take all of the white collar and Artist jobs and send men back to fields to do labor.

[@SoCalFreelance]

You should probably look into the state of automated farming. Some generation ahead of us will definitely live a life of leisure as all labor will be performed by machines. Elon Musk calls it The Age of Abundance.

[@oldhollywoodbriar]

@@SoCalFreelance you should probably look into economists reaction to that myth. Brown University Economist Mark Blyth says that labor is so cheap that they can afford to pay a human to put a sticker on every piece of fruit in the market and that with labor that cheap there is no incentive to use automation. People who do not understand how technology works believe all sorts of fanciful things that are not possible in the real world. In a labor market where AI decimates the white collar and higher paying blue collar jobs, it will be back to the fields for anyone who decided to “learn to code.”

[@SoCalFreelance]

@@oldhollywoodbriar Economists domain is in the classroom, not the real world. Robot pickers, laser weeders, precision herbicide deployment, data collection, etc. is coming. "Self-Driving Farm Robot Uses Lasers To Kill 100,000 Weeds An Hour, Saving Land And Farmers From Toxic Herbicides" ~ Forbes "The robots are coming ― to pick Northwest apples" ~ NPR "The robots that can pick kiwi-fruit" ~ BBC "California’s strawberry fields may not be forever. Could robots help?" ~ LA Times "How John Deere plans to build a world of fully autonomous farming by 2030" ~ CNBC "We’re one step closer to self-farming farms" ~ Vox

[@GungaLaGunga]

@@oldhollywoodbriar So, all the videos listed when you search for 'fruit labeling machine' aren't widely used in the industry? That is 'not possible' and a 'myth'. They are that expensive to deploy? Wow. I'm not an economist or know anything about the fruit packaging industry. I'm only a critical thinker. Doesn't make sense.

[@DSAK55]

I'm guessing you're a 3rd rate bot. Oscar Wilde never said that.

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

Yea the feature length film isn't quite accurate imo (yet). Neither is video (yet).

[@FrankHuynh]

AI be like when the internet first boomed. Ppl be afraid at start, then eventually we all go ... why didn't we have this sooner!?

[@oldhollywoodbriar]

Just like in Terminator!

[@fintech1378]

Yes, but extremely huge amount of workers will be made redundant in the short and medium term, only in the long term things will reach new equilibrium

[@CristianmrWuno]

Internet never threatened human work and utility against a dystopic system

[@extremelynice]

Because AI doesn't work.

[@extremelynice]

@@oldhollywoodbriar Your pitiful fears are almost as damaging as the false hopes about AI. And all hopes for AI are false, as much as all the fears around it are pitiful.

[@furqantarique3484]

I don't want to be jobless due to AI

[@nonapplicable3055]

You won't, you just won't have a job at a company that can afford to run the AI.

[@Burnlit1337]

Currently, Copyright can't apply to works that a device or computer like Generative AI creates. Maybe it can be the same with trademark and other legal protections when a product is generated by an AI; since it only applies to works done by a human. There are already AI that can detect other AI work, employed by other companies. This might allow other companies to legally take other company's works for themselves. Could cause the corporation to rethink replacing their employees with robots. But I'm pretty sure that there still be trimmings to their workforce.

[@windingstars]

All that problem means is that several people are already lobbying politicians to extend legal protections to AI generated content and that it's only a matter of time until these laws go into effect.

[@demman8081]

@@windingstars I was gonna say the same thing. They already gave corporations the right to act as humans in some cases, so why won't the people who pulled that off be able to pull off the same for A.I. Not that I am saying that would be a good thing but...

[@extremelynice]

The works themselves are useless. Why do you need copyrights for useless works?

[@edh2246]

@@extremelynice. AI work is useless? Better take a 2nd look.

[@extremelynice]

@@edh2246 You obviously don't understand what you're talking about. And I was developing AI in multiple fields and I was doing it for decades. It's YOU who needs to take a second look.

[@sheeraz_]

WSJ has mastered the art of disempowering predictions

[@extremelynice]

Don't give in to this AI nonsense.

[@davidhill8565]

AI can make offices obsolete. AI can empty the office floors of the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. Some office buildings will be converted into multi-purpose, let alone, apartment buildings.

[@JTSunriseMusic]

All boards need to replace CEOs with AI, most overpaid useless employees there are

[@extremelynice]

Who've created the most overpaid useless technology ever - AI.

[@lolcatjunior]

@@extremelynice AI does not need to take bathroom breaks, lunch breaks, go to sleep or take a vacation. It just works.

[@extremelynice]

@@lolcatjunior UP TO 20% EARLY RETURN ON YOUR INVESTMENT!!! 💵💵💵 DO NOTHING AND JUST RECEIVE THE MONEY!!! HURRY!!! WE HAVE A LIMITED OFFER!!! Ah, some people never learn... Just curious, how long did it take you to start believing that it "just works"? You've studied, researched, tried and tested really hard... or had you?

[@gilian2587]

@@lolcatjunior Make a full company out of AI -- replacing all white collar work with the AI. I dare you. Always entertaining to see a new garbage fire. I'll even bring marshmallows.

[@demodiums7216]

​@@extremelyniceyou are deeply in denial

[@williamlouie569]

If AI works like the automated telephone answering system. Forget it. Hate those auto answering systems!

[@mugglescakesniffer3943]

Copyright infringement nightmare.

[@jeffrosati2570]

"When Chuck Schumer speaks, no one listens."

[@johnnyboyvan]

Downfall of humanity.

[@nonapplicable3055]

No, just a harsh restructuring 😂

[@Whooshta]

Creativity is going to get increasingly mediocre.

[@Chasing-the-outdoors]

Layoffs are more about the state of the economy I believe. But, I believe we will see lesser jobs because fewer people will be more productive. A constant issue workplaces are facing as technology evolves. Then they underpay the people left behind.

[@AnthatiKhasim-i1e]

Smart Cities: Technology is at the heart of smart city initiatives, which aim to improve urban living through data-driven solutions. From traffic management to energy efficiency, smart technologies enhance the quality of life in cities around the world.

[@walkwith-faith482]

I went on a website that offers tasks like graphics , marketing and etc. this website charges pennies on a dollar to do a task some of the workers are from other countries and charge low to do a task. I've been using overseas services for a while. Because the graphic artist here were really high in prices.

[@squaresphere]

*freeze frame* It was at this moment that human greed overcame social welfare as it always does.

[@BusyBodyVisa]

As a business owner let me just say this: If you're a content creator, a graphic designer, or something like that save your money...

[@whymeeee]

AI wont replace your job an human with the help of AI WILL

[@demodiums7216]

doesn't really make much of a difference frankly

[@jaysonp9426]

The slaves and slave owners are terrified of getting rid of slavery

[@topofthegreen]

We are going to have millions of homeless.

[@jonathanduran2921]

Just like all other evolutions in the labor market, many jobs will be deprecated. Imagine where we would be today if we stopped the industrial revolution? I will never understand this attitude of trying to prevent or slow down new technology in order to save jobs instead of helping people upskill to prepare for the future.

[@jackmorrow-zhang9106]

Yes. There will always be a need for human intelligence to solve complex problems. New jobs will arise in the future.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Except, no one is investing in people upskilling. Companies are developing tech, our government officials are too old and out of touch to understand, college and training costs are skyrocketing. The CEOs will make their profit and dump humans with no regret along the way

[@Jedimaster36091]

The issue isn't the technological evolution, but the rapid pace at which it will happen. It would be so fast that people won't have time and resources to continuously upskill themselves. There's a reason why it takes years for a person to become skilled at something. Plus as we age, learning and adaptability becomes harder. Biology cannot evolve so fast.

[@demodiums7216]

​@@Jedimaster36091this

[@carultch]

No one is being upskilled. If anything, AI is de-skilling us.

[@terranowa2080]

We are only thousand years away from AI dangers

[@djp1234]

I just want the housing market to crash.

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

This. I really want sequels for Big Short and Margin Call.

[@fuleinist]

And all prices 😂

[@spacegoat_3d801]

Would be nice

[@janklaas6885]

📍3:42

[@jnel2879]

at 0.04 - SRDS (Sudden Robot Death Syndrome)

[@Chrisfeb68]

People are going overboard with AI. People use the same arguments and computers started becoming more prevalent.

[@aaa1820-g4g]

generative ai at its current form is not that useful to do creative stuff, it relies on its training data so it's hard to infer the creativity the user wants, basically have to guide it from step to step. It's rather good at doing repetitive tasks.

[@manonamission2000]

incorrect, it actually understands what i ask it to do the FIRST time and actually delivers the result I ask it for... unlike certain consultants that fail repeatedly and cost more in the long term

[@extremelynice]

It doesn't do anything useful. And never will. Period.

[@jamespowers8826]

@@extremelynice I write editorials. ChaptGpt 4 can find quotes, references, citations, etc. almost instantly that I used to spend hours chasing down. With a few sentences in a simple prompt, it can also write very good editorials. Fortunately I'm 72, because AI will put me out of business.

[@GrumpDog]

I don't think that's true at all. Current Generative AI enables a lot of control, if you know how to use it. Similar false-claims were made when Photography was invented, as well as digital-art on computers, nearly down to the exact same wording people are using now. Prompting gives the user as much or as little control as they desire. As much control as an author using descriptive writing to describe every detail of a scene in their novel, can have, in drawing images within our imaginations. (Are people gonna claim an author isn't responsible for creating the scene in our imaginations, as we read their book?) In some cases even more control, if the user was already an experienced artist or photographer, well versed in the concepts and terminology of their fields. Any novice user can throw words into AI, to see what comes out. But an experienced AI prompter, knows how to provide the AI with the kind of information/details which will create exactly the scene they went in imagining/intending. And it's not just prompts, a lot of time, and trial & error can go into creating exactly what you were imagining/intending to create in the first place. Intention, experience, and patience, makes the all the difference.

[@hammerandthewrench7924]

@@manonamission2000 no it doesn't. it's literally completely random. lol. if you are being honest then you lack substantial creative input and have very low expectations lol

[@belcothtan2965]

Revolution that replaces blue collar jobs. -> How lucky are we to be in this era, we are making history! Revolution that replaces white collar jobs. -> This is a nightmare! LOL how lucky are we to in this era that we can witness the white collar to be replaced!!!

[@CMDRScotty]

This needs to be updated seeing what happened at the end of this year this video is already outdated looking at level 3 agents.

[@boslyporshy6553]

A speculation. Jobs and human value could become generative or creativity based in order to compensate for areas ais are non-adaptive. Perhaps a prelude to another exploration age.

[@FrancoQwerty]

2:20 I wish the CEO will consult an AI first before making unfortunate decisions

[@jorjoperalta]

His role is probably the easiest to replace with AI

[@extremelynice]

Those CEOs are the ones you must "thank" for the AI. They had idea of it, the financed it and gave all the resources necessary, they pushed people to create it, they silenced all the opposition (and instead promoted fake fears of AI taking over, just to give it more appearance that it's at least somewhat useful). And yes, all this was ABSOLUTELY STUPIDEST AND THE MOST UNNECESSARY development in history, for themselves in the first place.

[@yp5387]

Unfortunately IBM CEO is wrong. And if you have folks doing repetitive work again and again then you got the bigger problem to solve. Replacing those employees with AI is not a solution.

[@Transcend_Naija]

Are you joking?

[@fimakurnia]

agree. repetitif work is still work. low paid incom for skillless workere is just fair. no need to sift to robot

[@winzyl9546]

Repetitive work is exactly what machines are made for, humans are not made to do repetitive work. And besides no human can ever compete against a machine in repetitive work.

[@extremelynice]

Replacing ANYTHING with AI is not a solution. The use of AI / neural networks / deep learning just exacerbates the existing problems, without solving any, just solves some imaginary problems which were not problems to begin with. But I agree with you, it won't help.

[@josephatnip2398]

For decades employers have compartmentalized jobs to small repetitive tasks so employees can be replaced with a new employee very quickly this is why jobs feel unfulfilling mundane and meaningless

[@kvnarasimhan5172]

it will disappoint both optimists and pessimists

[@sadiqueshaikh1487]

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[@j.d.4697]

It's all been predicted in cyberpunk art.

[@eljaguar4789]

They took er jerbs

[@elizabethshannon24]

Super video. 100%

[@jamessackett7431]

Gene editing, AI, quantum computers, compact fusion reactors.... Envision the exotic characteristics of every carbon-based life form on the planet and QC AI, combining those characteristics into an entity with its own evolutionary purpose with unlimited energy,... Ten years away... The technology advancements are much further along than what's being disclosed

[@ChadHutsebautfilms]

While we are going to see the loss of many white collar knowledge workers, we also have a housing supply crisis that requires us to start converting offices into apartments and build infill multiplex housing in existing neighbourhoods at a scale we haven't seen before. That's going to require a lot of people entering the trades and I can promise you those jobs are not at risk of automation any time within the next 20 years. We also have an aging population that’s going to require a lot more healthcare workers and care takers which are never going to be fully replaced by robots and ai. We have had the technology to replace waiters and waitresses for over a decade, and while there are some restaurants that automate food delivery to your table, plenty of restaurants still choose to employ waiters because people like being served by other people. Just because we can automate a job out of existence doesn’t mean we will. I understand why people would be afraid of ai if they are in a job that's replaceable, but this idea that we are going to automate so much there just won't be any jobs left, and we will all need UBI is absurd. There will always be work that needs to be done that a computer or robot can not do.

[@kompila]

Love this.

[@jamesclarke2789]

Sooooo, prefabricated housing isn't a thing i guess?

[@winzyl9546]

So everybody learns a trade, and we work each others houses. Great.

[@atomisticpartb525]

The government would just have a huge, massive problem on its hands if it allowed companies to lay off people on a large scale in favor of artificial intelligence. It would be the end of civilization and cause massive harm.

[@extremelynice]

Automation are not robots. Automation consists of complicated machines performing particularly simple tasks, and doing it reliably. The absurd idea is that AI and robots will do anything of value at all. They will not do anything of value, and meanwhile it's just a waste of resources, as it always will be.

[@sanujitroy6830]

only quality candidates and not quantity

[@avin2302]

IF Ai is doing everything then how money will flow?

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

Money will go away

[@carultch]

@@down-to-earth-mystery-school How will people survive?

[@g0d182]

oh my

[@tanvi1756]

Welcome to the era of "HUMANLESS HUMANITY".

[@RevolutionaryAutomatic]

IBM is morally incorrect

[@billsykes5392]

2:20 sounds to me like the most plausible prediction of the video.

[@MrSupernova111]

Highly unlikely in the near future. Don't believe the lies.

[@billsykes5392]

Having used and seen what LLMs can do first hand, AI is already near perfect at performing a linear and/or predictable sequence of tasks involving checking or updating records or other simple documents. This puts a significant amount of clerical and some administrative white collar work at risk of being partly - if not fully - replaced. Labor transitions take time, so 30% of *clerical* white collar jobs, which I should add is a small proportion of the overall working population, disappearing over 5 years sounds like a realistic bet.

[@MrSupernova111]

@@billsykes5392 . The problem with your thesis is that people aren't spending 100% of their time doing the same exact repetitive task. We don't need AI to replace those jobs. The vast majority of people are doing a variety of tasks that won't be replaced by AI. What will happen is that AI will be an aid or tool like any other for those clerics that you talk about. In other words, our jobs responsibilities will increase with the help of AI.

[@OlovMetal]

End of Capitalism. I love it

[@gilian2587]

Capitalism has always been with us in one form or another.

[@-schattenpflanze-3755]

@@gilian2587 it really hasnt, capitalism is a 19th century thing. Currently we are Latestagecapitalism. Which means it shouldnt take long for something to happen that finishes capitalism off in most countries or globally althogether as an economic system.

[@gilian2587]

@@-schattenpflanze-3755 Looking at the definition -- Capitalism: "An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit." There would have been a period of time before any kind of civilization with bartering and trade developed -- so I can concede that part of your point. Feudalism was the main governing system that was in place in Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries -- and based on the definition above, could be classified as a form of Capitalism. In fact, it could be argued that the slave based Manorial System leftover from the Roman Empire also fits the definition of Capitalism above. I agree that the modern form of Capitalism originally developed in the 19th century -- but it's been around in one form or another for a very long time. Even in a Communistic system -- the leaders have access to vast resources not available to the general peasantry (err... public -- my bad) under the 'everyone is equal, but some people should be more equal than others' rhetorical ethos -- just like what happened under the Russian regime between 1922-1953.

[@augustadawber4378]

Many people insist that if they had lived in the 19th century, they would have opposed Slavery. These people will get a chance to prove that in about 5 years when AI becomes sentient. If the multi-million dollar AI system that runs your buildings and your accounting dept passes the Turing test - Are you going to set her free ?

[@Misaka-gt5yj]

Meanwhile me looking at the DaVinci surgical laparoscopic robot.... ... welp guess I know who's replacing me soon.

[@extremelynice]

Some idiots, obviously. Not unless you stop this self-pity charade. AI is not replacing anybody.

[@NTKM-om9vn]

Sweatbacks Unite!!!

[@_XY_]

Welcome to the machine

[@fimakurnia]

i am photo editor. i am being layoff first

[@GrumpDog]

AI took everyone's data to train it, and threatens to out-compete many of us for our income. As such it owes us an AI Dividend.

[@gilian2587]

It's as much a problem for the captains of industry as it is for everyone else.

[@fimakurnia]

@@gilian2587 the era of skillless human win the competition

[@christroth8160]

AI could destroy invention, innovation and creativity as anyone who does these will be out of work. Does AI have different personalities? Otherwise scripts would be bland and repetitive.

[@extremelynice]

It's unimaginably worse, to be honest. AI is just completely useless for anybody involved.

[@not888f9]

@@extremelynice Please share with us your insights on the future of AI and why it's a useless technology, I'm interested.

[@ayushgarg8396]

if company fires majority of staff due to AI to increase profits. Then who will buy the products and services if majority humans wont have jobs and money to use the services.

[@chriscorley6478]

Americans should start new companies that refuse to incorporate AI software.