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Sashinii t1_j5rb0hd wrote

There will most definitely be literally no jobs in the 2040's because of automation.

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Cryptizard t1_j5rd0l7 wrote

You know there is a search box? This question is asked almost every day.

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Smellz_Of_Elderberry t1_j5rgxlk wrote

Future proof jobs. Gold standard for this is the creation of art.. Specifically for people who are interested in buying art for the human connection it entails.. ai will create better art, but people want art made by people. After that it's physical labor jobs. The physical aspects of the trades are going to take time to overcome. It takes much longer to make a physical robot and manufacture it en mass, than it does to upload an ai model to automate data based jobs.

Tldr, jobs which people want human service specifically, and physical complex labor jobs.

All will be automata except the first, eventually.

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MariualizeLegalhuana t1_j5riea1 wrote

Nursing but not because machines couldnt do it. People would not want to interact with machines all the time. Same goes for psychotherapists. The profession will probably be AI enhanced but people need to talk with a human.

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AvgAIbot t1_j5rjj5e wrote

Human sex workers and drug dealers. Some people will still want to bang humans over AI sex bots.

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MasterFruit3455 t1_j5rpwpk wrote

Singularity or not you will need to be able to adapt to the change as it comes.

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Spire_Citron t1_j5rpzzz wrote

I imagine any kind of social work that requires in person interaction is going to be done by humans for a good while longer. Like, it would take a pretty advanced robot to have both the physical and intellectual abilities to look after high needs kids in a group home, for instance. That's not for everyone, though.

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randomguyofthefuture t1_j5rqvaz wrote

In the foreseeable future, animation is a good field but will evolve to holographic and VR (Virtual Reality) using AI. Humans will be the consumers of that art. Humans will be the consumers of everything, food, hard goods, information, entertainment, etc. If humans don't consume then AI will have no purpose. Like the genie in Aladdin's lamp, our wish will be its command. But, as they say, " be careful what you wish for".

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DadSnare t1_j5s0nib wrote

20-30 years? Anything that requires a license in the blue collar trades is a good place to start. I'd say "handyman" but people will have AR to help them do stuff to their homes. They won't have the specialized equipment to do many repairs, and johhnybot might not be able to recommend they mess with electricity, for example. edit: and they have unions that might fight for human workers rights that could take a long time to change, even with UBI, because surely working on top of that financial assistance is the way to move up, and I don't see that notion going away. Why the hell would any government want to work towards have an overpopulated mass of people that do nothing?

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SpecialMembership t1_j5s4pg9 wrote

Step1:use narrow ai to enhance your productivity 10x

step 2:profit

Step 3: fire and enjoy singularity.

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joseph_dewey t1_j5s5ls5 wrote

Most cleaning jobs and most trash collectors.

I don't think a future proof career is always going to be the best one for you.

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Wolfzzz222 t1_j5s92hz wrote

therapists? addiction counselors ? thats about all i cam think of. possibly lawyers

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Smellz_Of_Elderberry t1_j5s9c3y wrote

Replying to Wolfzzz222 (#1,480,178)

Hence, the paradox.

The only thing I've thought of is something like universal basic income.. Eventually leading into a post scarcity society, where goods are so abundant that 99% of goods don't require money to purchase.

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leroy_hoffenfeffer t1_j5sad3g wrote

No one knows.

Previous Industrial Revolutions brought with them tons of automation... Out of that fell new jobs and industry.

We're still scratching the surface of Machine Learnings potential. With what we have now, we can imagine Art and other creative works being done by machine, something that was previously thought to be impossible.

Most people (including me) might say Blue Collar work like plumbing or electrician based work. While stuff like that is a safe bet, it's also worth pointing out that that kind of work assumes that humans are still doing the design work for plumbing systems and construction. If A.I replaces design work for those jobs, it could also be within reason to develop other machines to automate the hard labor away. Think of those 3D House Printing robots. No humans required to build those. Why wouldn't someone take the next step and automate the maintenance jobs away too? After all, humans are fallible, machines, if programed correctly, are not. Machines would be the best entity to repair a machine designed house.

I could also say something like IT work or programming. Despite what people would say here, we're still at least fifteen years away from replacing those kinds of jobs. Most work done in that space comes from other humans needing engineers to design solution for difficult, human-based problems. The old joke is "Good luck getting human beings to describe their problems well enough for a machine to comprehend and solve." The punch line thus being that humans are awful at telling other humans what they want. A machine would need a perfectly understandable problem in order to solve it.

But even this is hard to predict. ChatGPT is pretty good at what it does, and it can write basic programs for basic problems. Will more advanced versions be able to suss out the nuance from a human enough to program a solution? That's yet to be seen.

I can tell you first hand that Animation as a tool is an area of active automation research. Hand animating is hard, time consuming, and expensive. Its in everyone's best interest to automate that stuff away. But automating that is also very difficult: you have to inherently rely on Graphics Engines that operate on specialized, usually memory light, environments. You can't employ usual Machine Learning methods here because employing those tools is runtime intensive. From a Video Game perspective, where frame rate is potentially the most important thing, that's a nonstarter: if employing an ML tool to automate animation causes significant lag, that tool will be tossed by the wayside.

This topic is all nuance. You would really need to deeply dive into each particular career path in a novel way in order to get grounded answers to your general question.

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DeadliestPoof t1_j5se0d6 wrote

Replying to MariualizeLegalhuana (#1,477,688)

I agree with nursing but for different reasons. That making machines that replace the complex movements and diverse amount of tasks that a nurse completes would be very costly rather than keeping human labor.

Truth be told, my hypothesis is most would rather have an AI interface intertwined with customer service protocols, than a most likely overworked healthcare worker that becomes burnt out by the endless sub par treatment from fellow humans. AI wouldn’t have to worry about burn out, fatigue, and emotion

I expect most healthcare to become glorified nurses with AI handling a majority of all diagnosis and instruction to staff. Surgeons & ER Doctors will be relatively safe but expect shrinkage even in those positions because of the optimization of senior positions

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raylolSW t1_j5sfupt wrote

People are on this sub need to go outside, just do it most people work on a bullshit skilless job and still make good money to own a house, provide for a family, cars, vacations, etc.

There will be always jobs, in fact I expect the next decades to have jobs shortages.

Like it or not we are still on the early stages of human civilization we still have many relative short milestones like Mars landing, AI, Healthcare, robotics, metaverse, etc. Thinking there won't be jobs this early means you should go outside and stop being delusional, I get the flying cars vibes from the past.

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I personally I'm giving all on AI development and research.

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raylolSW t1_j5sg4wb wrote

Replying to Sashinii (#1,477,028)

I mean we aren't even at the 1% of human total civilization potential but we will stop and give up because 0.00000001% of the population who commenting subreddit think so.

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jbum t1_j5shfqn wrote

Childcare. Daycare, Nannies. Also many professions will be augmented by AI but won’t actually go away soon.

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Arcosim t1_j5sk8lt wrote

Replying to space_troubadour (#1,476,985)

And at that point the world will either be in one of these two scenarios: Star Trek or Terminator.

I hope it's the former, working/studying solely for the love of what you do or because that's your passion in a post-scarcity world. But the humanity from today and the humanity from Star Trek are extremely different, that's what I fear.

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R0b0tJesus t1_j5srano wrote

Barber. Nobody is going to let a robot near their head with a straight razor.

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Saratustrah t1_j5tcujg wrote

Replying to Desperate_Food7354 (#1,478,355)

>instantaneous healing

that would be nice, but ASI is not guaranteed to know magic. And yes "sufficiently advanced technology (...) magic", but a machine would still operate under the conditions of physics and the world as is. It cannot find impossible solutions.

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Saratustrah t1_j5tczyu wrote

Replying to Arcosim (#1,481,059)

Im not sure that thats what the other commenter meant, but animation directing will still be important. Generating and refining scenes and compositions to cater to a certain audience will probably be a valuable skill.

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CHARRO-NEGRO t1_j5tps8i wrote

Any job will be still here, the problem is that is not to be in America o any other development country, in Africa still going to need nurses, doctors, drivers, etc. the advancement in AI and robotics will happen in the near future in development countries.

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