re: Microsoft AI chief says in 5 years AI can do every white collar job.

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Sounds like your reps suck at their jobs

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In my opinion, smart/good business owners should almost never require salesmen, outside of certain specialized fields (like medical, where actual innovations are regular), but that's a discussion for another thread.

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Robots + AI will be able to do this

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Not even close. AI could run a series of cooking/assembling machines to produce a finished food order but it couldn't run a kitchen.

Yeah pretty much any desk job out there will be at risk in the next couple years the advancement of AI is unstoppable at this point

But people don’t seem concerned because the can make funny AI generated videos with the click of a few buttons.

We are all going to be screwed. AI is ancient demonic technology not sure how people still don’t see it

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AI is ancient demonic technology

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In my opinion, smart/good business owners should almost never require salesmen

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That's because the executives are the salesmen

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Yall bout to find out what goes on outside and you wont like it

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I’m a white collar guy. I like what goes on outside. I just like doing it on my own time with my own projects. But push comes to shove…. You better believe I’d make that switch. So would many other white collar people.

This is a South Louisiana based message board. People here are generally aware of what a lot of the blue collar world looks like in the area. Fat, maybe addicted to something, and unreliable. This idea that blue collar workers are like the band of brothers for working outside is pretty funny.

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Outside of legitimately high end restaurants (who typically have a rather static menu and the issue would be the precision of presentation, not cooking), why couldn't it run a kitchen of robots?

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AI couldn't run a decent food truck, forget running Morimoto... I think the problem here is that, like the vast majority of people, don't really understand what "AI" is in it's contemporary form and conflate it with its sci-fi incarnations.

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but the act of cooking/preparing? Yeah they 100% can.

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For very limited things you can set a timer too. Frying a burger patty of known dimensions is vastly different than making a good Hollandaise from scratch. That's part of the problem here too, most of the people who assert AI can do such things are themselves ignorant of what's involved. Fundamental lack of education and understanding engages them to assign abilities and aspirations to AI that is far beyond its capabilities. Try this again when an AI can produce the five French mother sauces with nothing but robots and non-preproportioned raw ingredients in a kitchen. Right now, AI can't even use the proper pronunciation of "tear" in a given context

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trying to imagine a world where 30 million well-paid, educated Americans lose their jobs

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I don't want to live in that world. Universal base income would be an atrocious disaster for all of humanity. It's communism, and it won't work.

AI's capabilities are still being vastly oversold, but it can replace a lot of people who perform basic data driven tasks for a living.

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If AI replaces all a majority of white collar jobs, would there have to be some universal wage and we all live without jobs? I'm trying to imagine a world where 30 million well-paid, educated Americans lose their jobs

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The AI tech bros claim that we’ll get UBI. We’ll just have to pray they are merciful enough to give us sufficient funds from their profits somehow. Or something like that. I hate all these AI people thinking they are saving the world when they are wrecking it to the benefit of a small handful of people.