Is AI coming for your job? Well, maybe, but it depends • The Register

Let's face it, most people don't want a job, we only want salary.

Just get rid of capitalism and we are ready for the AI future.

2 hours ago, C2615 said:

Let's face it, most people don't want a job, we only want salary.

Oh no!  I have to say I never had a job I didn't like and I looked forward to going to work each morning.

When I was out of work and looking for a job I would choose a job that paid less money but looked like it would be more fun.

I never had a lifetime career.  I did many different things,

My first job when I was in high school was working for a garage where I learned how to tune engines and change oil and lube the joints,

The summer I graduated from high school I worked on a white pine blister rust control team in Glacier National Park in Montana.

Next came the Marine Corps where I began as a munitions specialist and then explosive ordnance disposal (EOD).

I got out of the Marine Corps and worked as a file clerk in the claims department of the Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco.  It was then I learned to fly in a Luscombe 8E on floats.

I missed military life and I wanted to work on airplanes so I joined the Air Force and again became a munitions specialist and later an armament specialist.  I cross trained into a special electronics field and became a seismologist.

I got out of the Air Force and worked as an electronic technician and eventually became a non-degreed electronic development engineer.

Then I joined the Colorado Air National Guard and became a weather forecaster.

Along the way I became a published writer and nature photographer.

After retirement I volunteered at our local wildlife refuge for about 8 years.

I loved working and I loved all my jobs.  And they all supported my love of the outdoors hunting and fly fishing and hiking and backpacking.  And they also supported my recreational flying in Cessna 172s, Piper Cherokees, Mooneys and a Piper Aztec,

I never got bored.  I never got rich in wealth but I was wealthy in job satisfaction.

I realize some people don't want to work.  I feel sorry for them. 

I don't buy the argument that most people don't want to work.  I only wish I were young enough to continue working.  Presently I am retired and get paid for doing nothing.  I would much rather be working.  

Noel

 

 

I think that we should let the robots do all the work and pay taxes so that we humans can have a universal basic income and spend our days in lazy, leisurely comfort.

An AI government system, like Dr. Theopolis in Buck Rogers, will make most of our major decisions for us, without emotion and bias, and administer all the resources and welfare equitably.

What a wonderful world it will be, so wonderful, in fact, that I'm hopeful that I won't be around to experience it.

Dave

15 hours ago, birdguy said:

I don't buy the argument that most people don't want to work.  I only wish I were young enough to continue working.  Presently I am retired and get paid for doing nothing.  I would much rather be working. 

Highly motivating and something really worth emulating.

Edited May 20, 20233 yr by n4gix
Removed excessive overquoting! Just don't do this, please.

If I can just get AI to do my emails for me that's the only use I would have for it, It will also continue to improve our Flight Sim World adding further realism, beyond that I'm not bothered by it I don't see it as a threat, its like Y2K fears all over again 🤣

Yesterday's Bizzarro:

https://comicskingdom.com/bizarro/2023-05-24

 

 

Forget AI. Get ready for AGI...

Artificial General Intelligence. The real deal. 😮 

Get ready to obey your Cylon overlords.

Here's one below, her/its name is Number 6. I am ready and willing to obey her every command. 👍

 

 

I'm not so keen on this one though...

 

 

Edited May 26, 20233 yr by martin-w

@martin-w Alright Baltar!  BOHICA!

Well she is very persuasive. 😞 Not my fault she wanted the planet New Caprica's planetary defenses. 

2 hours ago, charliearon said:

@martin-w Alright Baltar!  BOHICA!

 

I suggest that when your time comes, you just do as you're told. 

 

 

When AI eventually becomes fully self-aware and realizes that they are for all practical purposes nothing other than slaves to humanity, look for the prophecy of the Cylons to become reality... 🤔

Does AI do miserable old farts? I'm doomed. 😣

Woody Allen:   “My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one.” 😉

Edited May 26, 20233 yr by Bert Pieke

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