I'm in a position that is much harder to replace with AI, and yet I'm still worried. I don't think my job will be taken, I see it consolidating the industries. Software companies are going to have a brutal decade as AI replaces more and more of their core functionality.
Totally agree with your premise though; ATMs gave tellers the chance to lean in on the unique human characteristics and outsource the boring stuff to a machine. I think many jobs more generally are going to go through this transformation, and the ones that rely on no human uniqueness are going to be the ones most threatened.
Thanks for the reply. Helps to get people's opinions and perspectives.
I think you're right in that human uniqueness, creativity and judgement will likely have more of an important role as other duties are automated or replaced by intelligent machines.
But sometimes intelligence and efficiency gains are only part of the equation. We might find that we want to do it the slow way because it's more fun and also more human, be it more social or otherwise.
I started my own Substack after getting a viral response on Reddit, and I spent a lot of time on the posts that culminated into this. Formatted well, written well. I got accused a lot of using AI, which couldn't be further from the truth. I did it because it was fun, and using AI to write the content for me would not have been fun.
Unfortunately, it feels like the world is becoming suspicious or unbelieving of that angle.
I find it interesting that I think most readers or viewers still want primarily human-made content. Or at least they want to know that the creative part is still human while the execution part can be somewhat augmented or semi-produced by AI/tech.
I'm in a position that is much harder to replace with AI, and yet I'm still worried. I don't think my job will be taken, I see it consolidating the industries. Software companies are going to have a brutal decade as AI replaces more and more of their core functionality.
Totally agree with your premise though; ATMs gave tellers the chance to lean in on the unique human characteristics and outsource the boring stuff to a machine. I think many jobs more generally are going to go through this transformation, and the ones that rely on no human uniqueness are going to be the ones most threatened.
Thanks for the reply. Helps to get people's opinions and perspectives.
I think you're right in that human uniqueness, creativity and judgement will likely have more of an important role as other duties are automated or replaced by intelligent machines.
But sometimes intelligence and efficiency gains are only part of the equation. We might find that we want to do it the slow way because it's more fun and also more human, be it more social or otherwise.
There's this moment now called, friction-maxxing.
Big thumbs up to the slow way.
I started my own Substack after getting a viral response on Reddit, and I spent a lot of time on the posts that culminated into this. Formatted well, written well. I got accused a lot of using AI, which couldn't be further from the truth. I did it because it was fun, and using AI to write the content for me would not have been fun.
Unfortunately, it feels like the world is becoming suspicious or unbelieving of that angle.
Good stuff. Definitely gotta follow.
I find it interesting that I think most readers or viewers still want primarily human-made content. Or at least they want to know that the creative part is still human while the execution part can be somewhat augmented or semi-produced by AI/tech.