What are your thoughts on AI?
A broad subject indeed but I'll make a start.
I was training an AI model to replace front line support in a very large organisation a few years ago before I retired and it is clear that it needs a vast amount of high quality information to train on.
Most of the knowledge base articles the company already had on how to fix issues were hugely dependent on knowing how to do things, the companies current policies and the range of steps that go behind something as simple as "now create a new account for the user".
It was clear that huge amounts of effort had to go into breaking things into modular tasks that can be referred to from any particular task so I had to use my hyperfocus and black & white logic to work out what these were to the point it could all be written into a script for automatic creation.
I think there are lots of companies trying to build their AI system on very poor quality foundations and this is likely to lead to some major mess ups - look at Apple and the News app on their devices that started giving very warped interpritation of news stories.
All that said, once the dust settles and the companies start to get working models in place then there will come an era of mass layoffs as they no longer need staff. They have shown themselves to be willing to downsize as soon as it is advantagous to them to do so.
This glut of economically inactive people in society will generate its own problems (benefits, homelessness, mental illness etc) which will be a strain on the government to support and with less tax revenue as well they will have to start dismanting the benefits system in order to protect only the most needy.
I expect this will hit autists hard as we are typically hard to employ anyway and are on the edges of the benefits system on the whole.
My advice would be to find something a computer cannot do (I chose property renovation) and get into it before there is a rush of others into it as well.
When the government starts talking about getting people vack to work and how many economically inactive people there are, I think they aiming they're efforts at the wrong people, yes there are many people in need of retraining and who's job prospects and general education could be better, But, I wonder how many of these people who've been economically inactive sinse covid aren't off sick, they've taken early retirement, they've been encouraged for years to build up big pension pots so as they can a good quality of life in retirement and they've decided to cash it all in, live for now and tey don't need huge amounts of money to live a good life, family and friends have become more important than chasing zero's in a bank account.
Probably a lot of the sort of jobs that will be lost to Ai will be ones where people are needed to read all the forms people are forced to fill in for things like benefits, having filled in the forms and gone through all the hassle, I doubt if AI could make them any more difficult and a whole new industry will be born by those former employees teaching people how to fill the new forms in a way the AI can cope with.
When the government starts talking about getting people vack to work and how many economically inactive people there are, I think they aiming they're efforts at the wrong people, yes there are many people in need of retraining and who's job prospects and general education could be better, But, I wonder how many of these people who've been economically inactive sinse covid aren't off sick, they've taken early retirement, they've been encouraged for years to build up big pension pots so as they can a good quality of life in retirement and they've decided to cash it all in, live for now and tey don't need huge amounts of money to live a good life, family and friends have become more important than chasing zero's in a bank account.
Probably a lot of the sort of jobs that will be lost to Ai will be ones where people are needed to read all the forms people are forced to fill in for things like benefits, having filled in the forms and gone through all the hassle, I doubt if AI could make them any more difficult and a whole new industry will be born by those former employees teaching people how to fill the new forms in a way the AI can cope with.
