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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Mfw my girlfriend finishes studying translation in 2022 just in time for AI to come in

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[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How safe a profession is depends on how much more expensive replacing robots are than replacing people

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[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 11 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Translators are never going to be replaced. The quality of a translation made by humans is much better

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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Meanwhile my (college btw) teacher suggests us to use ChatGPT if we need help. Bro wants to replace himself.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

If we were not ruled by tech oligarchs, and the control & benefits of AI were not concentrated among a privileged few, AI replacing our jobs would be a good thing.

[–] DeusUmbra@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I genuinely wonder if at some point someone is going to try to replace my job with AI. I'd be surprised if it worked, but not surprised if anyone is dumb enough to try, considering I do IT work, physically onsite too, so I don't just reset passwords over the phone or anything, I go to desks and setup equipment, repair hardware, troubleshoot software, the whole nine yards.

[–] cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I work in horticulture and tend to plants- transplanting into different sized pots, pruning, yknow, physically interacting with plants. I also monitor the environment of the greenhouse- temperature, humidity, amount of water in the soil. Recently my boss has implemented ai and sensors to read the room and adjust the humidity and the temperature and monitor the water levels automatically. It doesn't work very well, because there arent sensors evwrywhere, and some parts of the greenhouse get better ventilation than others, so the temperature fluctuates. Me and my crew know where the hot spots are, the robots don't. The plants are suffering. We are doing extra work and killing off more plants on average than we did a few months ago.

About 1/3 of my crew has quit or been fired over the last year, and none of them have been replaced.

I've asked for a raise because I'm doing a lot more work with a lot less people, but they don't have the budget for me, since we just implemented all this ai that's gonna make my job so much easier.

I got written up for having a bad attitude (aka asking for a raise) and am now on probation at work. I am almost certainly about to lose my physical labor job to a robot and.it is blowing my fucking mind.

Take care xx

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[–] DimFisher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah sure, they will replace artists with their own stolen intellectual property which they mashed up together and spit it out back to their faces with the fake name of Ai, Congrats! humanity is definitely getting dumber and dumber every day since it cant see something like this

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I not sure what personal is, but I'm curious, are there stats on job losses for artists, translators or journalist since AI?

I would use AI for some tangential stuff, like translating a menu, but not sure how many would use AI in a place where they'd previously hired a translator.

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[–] SeboBear@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Translation is too complex - language changes too fast - cultural context can not me adopted well - see every translation app that tries other languages than the most common ones worldwide

[–] WarpScanner@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Cooking is something that requires advanced robotics or some kind of heavily modular factory-like automated meal production line, not AI. Though AI certainly could assist in the development of such.

Drivers are being actively replaced right before our eyes.

A lot of Lawyer work is already being heavily automated, even without AI. Outside of that its "technically" replaceable with AI but on a literal legal level not likely currently possible. I think automating some aspects of being a lawyer might be beneficial but certain elements would be down right dystopian if fully automated.

Doctor work being automated is also already being done, but this is arguably a very good thing, as it maybe holds the key to a lot of medical breakthroughs and might unlock the potential to sort all that personal medical data people collect ever since that became a thing. And largely might help significantly reduce the cost of highly effective personal healthcare, given sufficient time.

Teacher work probably could be partially automated but getting kids to pay attention to a lesson, discipline, safety, etc would likely require a human to be around if only for liability.

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[–] Electric_Druid@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (12 children)
[–] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Not sure if I'd agree here. I think that used properly, AI definitely has great use-cases, especially in areas of science, like medicine.

As with any new "invention", there is the tech-bros that jump at it first chance they get and try to push it into anything. We had that with blockchain, we had that with crypto, we had it with web3 and now we have it with AI.

The tech isn't bad at all, it's actually extremely useful, but the use-cases it's put to work at aren't.

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