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Indeed's CEO says college students might be learning skills that could go 'obsolete' once they graduate — all because of AI (www.businessinsider.com)

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Will everything you learned in college be replaced by ChatGPT? The CEO of job site Indeed says it's not out of the question.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firstly, is this guy an in any way qualified to talk about AI? If not, I don't see why we should trust him about it; he's just one of the many self-proclaimed experts really knowing nothing about the topic. A few things I think are relevant here:

AI could only potentially replace cognitive jobs.
"AI" like ChatGPT is only ruminating on its training data, so it cannot drive innovation, only do jobs where information is already available.
As with all innovation making human work obsolete, it is only really a bad thing if we allow its benefits to be unevenly distributed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As with all innovation making human work obsolete, it is only really a bad thing if we allow its benefits to be unevenly distributed.

So, based on any reading of history...it will be a bad thing.

[–] Eheran 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, based on the extremely high standard of living today, even if we compare to only 100 years ago, it is extremely positive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

extremely high standard of living today

which is still only true for a small proportion of the human population. If anything unevenly distributed applies more today than at anytime in human history.

Just ask the child who harvests your cocco beans but has never eaten chocolate.

Or the Child who mines lithium but will never own a smart phone, or shoes.

Etc

etc

[–] Eheran 1 points 1 year ago

The human development index goes up and up and up. If your have data that shows that a place got worse and worse, feel free to share it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

People still had jobs after the industrial revolution. We'll still have jobs after the AI revolution. They may be different jobs in some cases, but there will still be a need for direct human interaction for a long time to come.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would like to put the genie back in the bottle, please.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yep, why should human progress actually benefit humans!