As much as I like AI but the last years are kind of a lot, sometimes just too much for me.
I can't even watch youtube without getting a video translated into my language which is quite annoying.
The first search on google has an AI telling me the stuff I need to know, don't even have to look at real human threads at this point.
Not even going to deep on the AI generated videos, news etc. because that is insane already and we aren't even peaking.
I am 40 years old. Imagine studying a few years on a 200.000 €/$ or whatever currency degree just to find out that the job won't even exist by 2028.
Imagine finding out that you won't be able to pay off your debt cause most fastfood restaurants will use AI/ Bots that can serve, prepare, clean etc. 24/7 while a useless human needs breaks, wants money and needs days off and can only work 8 hour shifts.
I know this sounds crazy but I really think by 2030 we will have 80% jobs replaced by AI and the new jobs that might evolve out of jobs that have vanished will only be doable for AGI/ Super Intelligence.
Think about it.... while in the 1800s machines have replaced or made jobs easier, they still required humans manpower to produce them, to maintaine them and to even use them.
Now we are basically replacing what made humans - human - our brains. As we know the human brain has never ever been replaced by something and that is the organ that put us where we are in the food chain. And we are creating something that is BETTER, FASTER, MORE EFFICIENT than our a brain.
It could all be cool and nice and fun and games if we wouldn't be replacing humans in a very short time frame til 2030. It could all be cool,... if not every country would be competing in this race to super intelligence.
Looking at this neutral and seeing what is happing, imo I might be doomed in 5 years.
I really think I will be fck.d up in 5 years. A job is annoying, but it's also a humans purpose. A way to express itself and be useful to society. If this is being taken away we will find 95% of humanity in a huge depression and suicide rates are going to rise by 2030.
Edit: We can't even imagine and visualise what super intelligence will do and can do. Before we even understand what this AI just created and offered us the next best thing is already produced.
We are basically getting smarter with every new upgrade AI will give us, but get dumber in the process cause we can't even PROCESS the new stuff.
Bland example: currently phones are getting upgrades 1-2 years and we can read whats new and see the new things. Imagine those phones being produced every week with new and better and more useful upgrades. We'd buy the phone, understand the phone and after a week the next phone with 5 new features is on the markert and we are outdated.
We can't process the new upgrades etc. in such a short time frame. We aren't capable of that. This leads us to getting dumber with every new upgrade.
Imagine AI creating a Boeing and after a year we understand how to use it. But during that year it already released a Boeing that can fly at the speed of flight. It can't be used cause humans cant use it and would die at those speeds. But AI could.
AI will be producing so much trash knowledge lol.
I think the more you sit down and learn about current AI models (LLM models) the more you will realize a lot and I do mean a lot of the promises and pie in the sky rhetoric is just tech bros out to raise capital and take money from dumb rich people.
The more you learn about current AI, the less you will fear it because it is not some magic bullet. Every single AI out there is riddled with issues just bubbling under the surface.
They don't "think" like people do, they're basically very fancy autocorrect - yes that's a gigantic oversimplification but it isn't too far off the truth.
Even white collar work it isn't great at straight replacing people, it's a useful tool but it isn't a person and AI makes a lot of mistakes still.
Anyways I think it's a good tool, I use it, but I can tell you I'm not scared of AI taking everything away all at once. I do think present day automation tech paired with AI will sooner or later eliminate some jobs but I'm hopeful we see a systemic shift to handle that. I am concerned one day we're going to get efficient enough at enough stuff that we'll have like a permanent unemployed underclass that's 20 to 30% of the population but things like that are solvable crises if we choose to solve them. That's where universal basic income, healthcare as a right and easily accessible, upping the min wage and reducing the normal working hours week from 40 to say 30 will help. Or would help if we lived in a functioning country not teetering on the brink of all our facism (USA).