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The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.::ChatGPT is commandeering the tasks that young employees rely on to advance their careers. That's going to crush Gen Z's career path.

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[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I like to compare modern LLM to Excel or calculators in the past. Some years ago a company would have an in-house team of accountants. Then came Excel and now a single accountant can do the job for 10 companies. Let's now consider programmer: currently a project manager oversees a team of programmers, most of whom are only responsible for mundane work of typing out code. With AI a single worker will be able to perform more productive than that team of programmers, because they will offload the boring work to AI and focus all their attention to what AI is perhaps incapable of.

What this article is really saying, which I agree with, is that AI improves productivity ,just like perhaps the steam engines did in the 1800's. But this time the problem is we won't increase the output and let the workers work more efficiently and earn more money, because it's not manufacturing jobs which were limited by technology that this is influencing. It's office jobs, which the economy has a pretty much fixed demand for. Workers will not improve their productivity, they will just be replaced because their work can be offloaded to a machine capable of doing that same jobs better in every significant way.

[–] PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this time the problem is we won’t increase the output and let the workers work more efficiently and earn more money

I agree with what you're saying but I just want to contextualize this bit, because you make it seem like technological advances led to increased worker productivity and higher wages.

It didn't. It never has.

The government made it happen because people pressured the government to make it happen. Strikes, riots, and literal bloodshed twisted gilded arms to share the economic gains they were amassing for themselves.

And so the implication is that, sure, this phase of technological can increase worker productivity, letting the same number of office workers do more, work less, and earn the same amount. In principle, that is entirely possible. In practice, we arrive back where you say office workers will just be replaced.

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[–] jerebear205@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

My gawd, zoomers are so effed. I have loads of internships but I'm sure getting a job will be so hard. My internship right now encouraged me to apply for a open job but my application was denied due to lack of experience! Granted, I still have a year left of school to do but still its government they take months to hire and by then, I'll be close to graduating! I dunno, I'm just going to hold out hope and wish someone will hire me.

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not going to turn out well for a lot of people. Soon human beings will be obsolete in the name of AI

[–] livedeified@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

could you please elaborate? do you mean in the workplace?

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[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbf, if 99.9% of the jobs are replaced by ai, there won't be a reason to work at all anymore. since you don't have to pay the ai a wage, let it rest, give it vacations, etc. costs of basic needs may go so low that they could be redistributed for free. But that's communism!!! Cringe!

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[–] Uncle_Iroh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with that. I'm not going for a career anyways, most of us aren't.

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