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It depends on your job… if you work from home, yes it’s coming for you. If it takes less than a week to learn your job duties, you’re done. If you stand in one place most of the day, see ya later. Robots have been replacing humans for decades. Sometimes robots fail mechanically or electronically and won’t do their jobs. It’s at this time that humans have to intervene to repair them. Will they ever be clever enough to repair themselves?

>Will they ever be clever enough to repair themselves?

Perhaps, up to a point. More likely, they will self-monitor and alert 'someone' that they are not performing optimally and need to be serviced.

Humans will become 'Keepers of the Machine'. :D

Lol maybe AI doesn't replace human labor all by itself, but when you add robots it does.

We don’t have the social reform necessary to even have robots replace our jobs. Detroit become human is probably the closest we’ll get.

I am almost certain the US already uses AI that makes accounts on various social networks and advocate for US foreign policies and propaganda.

> if you work from home, yes it’s coming for you

No, this is far oversimplified. If your job requires a ton of negotiation and coordination between stakeholders and clarification of requirements, AI that can do that is a long way off. You will have new tools to make parts of your job easier, but by the time AI comes for those jobs, you’re looking at a radically different situation where your career is the least of your worries.

> If it takes less than a week to learn your job duties, you’re done.

When you count the years you spent as a child learning manual dexterity, almost no jobs fit into this category. Easy for humans is not the same as easy for machines. See Moravec’s paradox

My job is so bad it doesnt want it.

Life works and that is a good thing. All plants and animals live by working through their lives. Work is not optional. Earth, as far as we know, is the only planet where life works. We all have a job to do, to earn a living. The economy is the business of earning a living. All life transacts with other life to earn a living. We humans use money to facilitate, negotiate and establish the trade value of commodities which are things that are desirable and relatively scarce. If you have no money we employ ourselves to others to earn it. To earn money is to serve people. This fundamental component to monetary systems helped our communities reduce the risk of periods of cyclical scarcity and to seek an abundance of desirable goods. There is not a financial mechanism that allow the abundance to be realized and fairly distributed. The fact that our numbers have grown to 8billion people is the undeniable fact that we as a species has overcome our scarcity problems, yet not the distribution problems. With AI, automation and sustainable quality built goods there is no reason for all of us to employ ourselves to each other. But the inherited instinct to do so is strong with us. The future requires our monetary economic system to adapt and adopt some new monetary mechanism that can allow more people to live comfortable frugal lives, working for themselves rather than needing to be employed to others. But how to without causing a collapse of the monetary economic logic as we know it?

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Those jobs aren’t typically work from home careers. “Negotiations and coordination between stakeholders and clarification of requirements” would be done in person, regardless that it’s just a bunch of words clumped together. Whatever you say though. I can learn to make subs at subway in a day or two. Go ahead and pretend those jobs are complex. Whatever helps you sleep at night

Boston dynamic?

My job requires exactly what I said. I'm a software engineer. I do it from home, often from across the continent.

Don’t “engineer” yourself into starvation

Yeah, I'm extremely not worried.

Tell that to all the people that spend hours trying to navigate an automatic customer support phone labyrinth.

If you create (write , draw, design) for a living - particularly advertising, corporate communications, fluff for blogs & youtube, and you're a grunt, not the creative director... AI is gonna eat your lunch. The advertising companies are already wetting themselves with glee over AI.

AI is also surprisingly competent at programming. Alot of programming is Tinkertoys now: grab an input library here, a little glue logic, data-processing from another library, push to the cloud storage, repeat. An AI can cruise the libraries, whip up a demo, validate the code and unit-test it, all in seconds. Then it pushes this to the human for some business rules added, back to the AIs for QA and end-to-end testing. Any process that can be encapsulated in a library function is now available to a programming AI. I'm sort of glad I left that field a few years ago.

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So it begins... man v machines!

Hey, I'm retired, let them come.

The working from home thing seemed out of nowhere and like a personal jealous jab lol.

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Lol but they should. Lazy tech experts not making life easier for the rest of us

AI is good at getting the back-of-the-textbook answers, but like in most any other industry, the real world of tech doesn't give you textbook problems.

The tricky part to AI entering into the work force is it WILL replace jobs. But as it replaces jobs, companies will compensate and demand more and the AI will need more managers to operate it which will create jobs.

For example. Today we have coders and managers who lead the coders. Ai enters and replaces more and more coders. But as companies see the AI doing more and more work they now demand more complex projects which requires more managers to review AI code.

The problem is that this boom and bust cycle takes time. And humans live short lives. So if you just happen to be entering the workforce when it’s an AI boom and a human bust, sucks to be you. 10 years later and you’d be a code manager but you were taught to code when AI is taking over coding so you just kinda get screwed.

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I hate those. Whenever it’s a bot I make sure to spam the hell out of the operator button

If the past is any indicator, they will just make you compete for an ever dwindling number of positions that used to be three separate roles, so despite the technology making your actual job easier, you will still work harder and feel grateful to be doing so as the ranks of the skilled unemployed swell.