Should one learn Algorithms for AI to improve in one's career and prevent suffering from Machine-Took-My Job Syndrome?

Disbursed-operant · 2019-01-27T19:06:07+00:00

I dont know about algorithms. But I do know that machines took over my entire field. So I figured if i cant beat them I'll join them. Moving into the IT field.

It wont be long until automation reaches a point where computers can write their own algorithms, and our entire economic structure will have to be remade. I give it 15 years, tops.

Infinitewisdom1984 · 2019-01-27T19:22:11+00:00

I have a feeling "AI technician" will be something close to a job title that will need many workers along with programmers, engineers etc. AI will create many jobs in the computer science field and the old stuff won't just cease to exist, people will still use non-AI tech that still needs programming, fixing, engineering.

Many federal and state jobs will see workers replaced, teaching can be replaced, many health professions can be replaced (imagine AI that can learn to do any surgical procedure with 100% success rate), any driving job can be replaced... and basically anything that doesn't involve creating and or working on the AI that does whatever it needs to do can and will have its workforce replaced by machines.

MuaadDibJihad · 2019-01-27T19:22:40+00:00

Time to study Python.

mgtow-zen · 2019-01-27T19:27:50+00:00

AI is kind of like nuclear fusion. It's always "right around the corner". :) (I still remember "askjeeves")

If anything, I'd suggest trying to figure out the messes these convoluted systems will no doubt make, and aim toward that as a career. If computers at all. In the coming years, people will get awful sick of their bullshit algorithms that insist on making decisions for them. I already pine for the days when everything wasn't "smart".

There may be opportunities in defending against this sort of thing though. (Not sure about the money though)

I was a computer programmer. Market is kind of crowded and you'll end up working for some unpleasant psychopaths. The industries are mostly run by greedy assholes.

When I get back into it, my aim is to completely fuck up their world. Just need a short break for now.

But AI? Smells like a buzzword to me. Surprised they don't throw "the cloud" and "paradigm shift" in the papers that talk about it.

How about building a coffee pot with a simple on and off switch? That would probably be a hot seller. :)

FunkyCannaHigh · 2019-01-27T21:51:05+00:00

To the OP: learn computer science. I am not sure where you are right now in your learning path but start at CS50x if you are a noob. Then take the https://github.com/ossu/computer-science program if you don't want to pay for college.

Then switch back to edx for a machine learning speciality

LiveTheTruth321 · 2019-01-27T21:59:07+00:00

I definitely want to learn how to code as I believe it is necessary in modern society but I still am sticking with my bare hands when I can help it.

Herpnderp145 · 2019-01-27T19:34:26+00:00

Obviously no one will have a definitive answer to this question. I think that while AI will replace the more mundane automation jobs, it will probably not replace jobs that require creativity. I'm not using the word 'creativity' in a shallow sense like women do (e.g. sitting on a beach in a bikini reading a cheap paperback softporn). In creativity I'm including coming up with a plumbing hack in a tight space, tracing that tricky electrical fault, finding that elusive computer bug, inventing a new supply-chain paradigm, finding a legit tax loophole to benefit from, coming up with a novel sales or marketing pitch, thinking on your toes in a tough client-setting, ...

So, despite the recent advances in having AI replicate styles of the great painters and musicians of the past, its just that: a replication. In my mind, it all boils down to the P vs NP problem. I believe that P!= NP, which in simple terms means that 'creating something' is harder than 'verifying or replicating something once a solution is available'. In other words, real life situations have too many variables for a computer to loop through. Some examples are: Natural language has too much nuance for a neural net to capture perfectly. Real-world driving conditions have a greater variability than what can be encoded in software. Business decision making, even at a middle management level, has too many subtleties to be performed by a robot (some might argue whether we need middle management). These and many many other examples have me firmly in the camp that AI will not automate (male) creativity.

Make no mistake, AI will irreversibly shift the jobs landscape. "Lookup"-based jobs, consistency-checking and verification jobs etc will be automated (already are). But creativity-based jobs will not. So to answer your question (in my limited capacity), one path is to learn CS/AI (its much less exciting than what MSM paints it to be). Other is to find employment in fields where there are 'too many variables'.

BitcoinBoffin · 2019-01-27T20:56:12+00:00

Holding digital stores of wealth is another way to hedge.

SomeGhostingGuy · 2019-01-27T21:19:51+00:00

There are two three problems with coding when it comes to doing it as a job:

Once it is written it can be replicated endlessly at practically no cost.

It can be written anywhere on this globe.

Technology constantly keeps changing and the older you get the harder you can / have the will / the time to follow.

With that said, I am also pretty sure that very soon many "repetitive" task will be automated in the future by more or less smart machines. Even more in high labour-cost countries of the west.

And with "repetitive" task I think mostly of all those rather comfy cubicle jobs, the manual jobs in factories are already at an highly automated level.

LiveTheTruth321 · 2019-01-27T21:57:52+00:00

I definitely want to learn how to code as I believe it is necessary in modern society but I still am sticking with my bare hands when I can help it.

Title	Should one learn Algorithms for AI to improve in one's career and prevent suffering from Machine-Took-My Job Syndrome?
Author	Herpnderp145
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Date	January 27, 2019 6:47 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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