This whole discussion makes me wonder what the outlook would’ve been 50 years ago, with the knowledge a huge number of American jobs would be wiped out. And also asks the question of that the future of labor will look like.
Our society functions because we create various needs for production/labor and people meet those. In the past, when needs dried up, others replaced them. Maybe that happens again, maybe not. It’ll be strange if we end up with a small elite of employed AI engineers and a large set of the unemployable. It’ll blow up our way of life, to a degree.
I’ve been struggling with adopting in part because I have trouble with finding day-to-day uses outside of work, and the in-work ones have been somewhat limited (granted it’s going to wipe out/replace the whole field soon, probably). Hopefully I’ll pivot before then, but maybe after. Granted, the field I’m in will have basically flitted in and out of existence in about two decades, and there’ll be something else I can probably find my way into.
