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The irony is my company is starting it's annual hackathon week. The company has gone out of its way to make Google AI available for us, met with Google employees who are rolling out the red carpet to give us access to unreleased tools, features and experimental apps. We were already tightly partnered with google before this, so it all makes sense google wants to see we very successful, meaning we can never leave them for AWS or Azure.

I feel like each team is looking for a way to optimize another teams work, making them more expendable after we fully adopt AI systems. Really feels like a race to the bottom, luckily only a handful of people know what I do and they don't have access to my systems to even start trying to figure out how I can be replaced. That's called job security my friends...

I believe anyone saying AI isn't going to reduce jobs is full of crap, it's going to happen.

I already see ai replacing jobs of people who tend to handle communication where a friend of mine is doing the work of 5 by generating 90 percent of their comms and hand modifying the output.

Basically if your job involves finding a way to tell people information you are replaceable by current ai models. If your job requires creative thinking, you're safe, ai ain't even close to that.

Literary translation is a field where machines have already threatened creative thinking jobs. Already even some respectable publishers in various countries are machine-translating novels, giving them a light copyediting (not always a deep editing -- the industry has been cutting back on that for years) by someone who doesn't speak the source language, and selling them to the public. It is not that machine translation can already think so creatively, it is just that the cost savings are so great that human creativity is viewed as an unaffordable luxury and the market tolerates the quality hit.

I agree here. This is always the way. I mean literally most companies I work for are all about "how do we take a human process and make it automated, and thus more accurate and better!"

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