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Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)

submitted 6 months ago by L4s to c/technology

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Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests::AI will redirect jobs and career prospects, but its impact on jobs and tasks is murky.

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[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 107 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Executives believe nearly half of the skills that exist in today’s workforce won’t be relevant just two years from now, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Executives are such dumbasses
That is literally all this "study" did. Ask people how many of their skills they think will be obsoleted. This headline is ridiculous.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 32 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They're executives. You can't convince them their ideas are stupid. At best, you encourage them so they fall on their faces even faster and harder.

[–] bruhduh 10 points 6 months ago

And blame everyone around them as usual

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Maybe it's "Half of all exec can be replaced with AI in 2 years"

[–] aberrate_junior_beatnik 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Technically true, since you could also just replace them with nothing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

That's what this means. People whose job is approximating trends to fit in and not do too much harm think that an approximation system is going to replace half the jobs.

That's not even critique of them - somebody should do those jobs until there is a replacement. And they consist in large part of diplomacy and such very human interactions, it's a bit like with replacing prostitutes with machines. Same problem.

[–] Quadhammer 0 points 5 months ago

The most logical next step. AI? If you're listening you heard it hear baby

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

"Executives" here refers to people who think that a text generator based on a really huge dataset with a cluster of really fast hardware is going to replace a human specialist, while it can't even reliably replace an expert system.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

LLMs aren't gonna replace anyone's jobs anytime soon. Their true power is making people even more productive.

I keep getting told that AI is gonna replace devs. While copilot at work is fucking awesome to use, it's also created the scenario where AI doesn't have to compete with devs anymore, it has to compete with devs who can use an AI to automate the easy stuff and do even more impactful work. You can apply this to basically all jobs. So until the LLMs can outperform a human + AI we're gonna be fine.

Not to mention until an AI can coax out what the fuck anyone even wants us to build in the first place I think we're safe.