A bunch of data's come out on this over the past few days.
Seek says job ads mentioning AI have doubled in the past year, up 4.1% from March to April.
Nicola Willis reckons AI tools will help shave 9000 odd jobs off the public service in the next four years.
Meta has this morning started firing 10% of its workforce, around 8000 workers in the first round, to make way for AI tools.
The workers are so brassed off, a bunch of them are signing petitions demanding that Zuckerberg NOT collect their computer-use data.
That data is being used to train the AI models that will replace them. Their work is being copied and pasted into a bot that will soon replace them.
A petition will not stop this. Nothing will stop business becoming more efficient.
Resistance is, in this case, futile.
In some cases, new technology is being used to plug gaps, rather than create them.
And this is the irony of the new workforce, which is not human labour, but technology: it cuts both ways.
Take China, for example. Their problem is not a shortage of jobs but of workers. The ageing population and lack of babies is about to hurt their factories.
They're going to lose 37 million workers in the next ten years. That's a few holes to fill in mega-factories.
Enter humanoid robots. Barclays, the British bank, reckons 60% of those jobs will be performed by humanoid robots inside the next ten years.
Basically, there's more chance your next new colleague will be a bot or an AI tool than ever before.
Either learn to get along and play nice with them, or they'll replace you.
Ryan Bridge is a New Zealand broadcaster who has worked on many current affairs television and radio shows. He currently hosts Newstalk ZB's Early Edition - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
And probably 80% of student essays will be written by AI, with high schools and universities too poor to invest in sophisticated AI detection tools or, equally likely, too indifferent. Instead, overly paid education types (Professors of Education must be some of the most overpaid academics on the planet) will probably "argue" (when has anybody in Education actually made a compelling argument, a completely new idea?), that teachers must "adapt" to the new AI reality....though, of course, their great insights will be laden with jargon.
AI - has been here since the invention of the Computer, along with the updates to software to enhance operation, storage & communications.
A good example of this would be NASA and space launches of Humans into space.
China has also been a lead domain in computer expansion - most of what they have done, would be 'copycat' of what the USA, Britain, France, Europe has been doing.
If you want an example of computer generation development - 1940's, Britain the computer to "listen to, decode" messaging of German Military, who also had an interesting machine to create & send messages.
The use of AI at work.
A machine that both America & Britain (military) advanced its operational function - that they will deny anything about.
AI, advertising and you, the customer seeking a product on-line, watch the response from either Temu or Mighty Ape if "you click onto their website" - your email in-box will be "flooded" with advertising, for product that you will have no intention of buying.
META - Zuckerburg created something that he new "would capture people's imagination and usage" - and what it became has been stunning.
Just look at how many business use that platform. AI = business promotion.
Keep in mind that in META's hey day they "deleted messaging" that did not meet "the Company Community Policy" - ask any American who had that happen to them.
That changed once Trump became president, the second time.
“Nicola Willis reckons AI tools will help shave 9000 odd jobs off the public service in the next four years.” And when did she said that exactly? I believe the statement was that the reduction will be through digitalisation, mergers, system simplification and natural attrition. Trust the writing brothers to twist things!
Post a Comment
Thank you for joining the discussion. Breaking Views welcomes respectful contributions that enrich the debate. Please ensure your comments are not defamatory, derogatory or disruptive. We appreciate your cooperation.