We all wonder when AI will fully run the world, Elon Musk talks about his humanoid robots a lot and as I shared in my previous blog, he has predicted that the humanoid robots will be a $10 trillion dollar industry and we could have every home having a humanoid robot.
Robots and AI technology is kind of the era we're in right now. It's good for helping us complete tasks we don't want to get hands on but rather have a machine do it.
However, we as people still need to work to make money to take care of bills and purchase the things we want or need. A person that is extremely poor is usually a person without a good means of income.
So what happens to us when AI takes over our jobs? We become jobless.
If we become jobless, what will we do next as a world? That's a topic for another blog, lol. But for today's blog, I want to share some views from the one and only Bill Gates of Microsoft regarding which jobs will actually be safe from AI takeover.
Bill Gates has predicted the future of AI and well you can just say, he's not God and forget about everything I'm going to write or you can argue it with solid arguments in the comments section and we discuss.
My stance on his prediction of which jobs will remain is this;
I agree with him for the reasons he mentioned behind his belief and confidence in his prediction but technology can change our prediction at any given time.
He did speak with high level of confidence but that doesn't mean he's one hundred percent accurate, but come to think of it, this is a tech billionaire that has connections with most of the tech billionaires that run technology in the world.
However tech will be in the future is determined by these tech companies and the tech billionaires, so when they make a prediction, I think it holds some weight.
Bill Gates said that AI will eventually replace humans for most things. Not some things, most. Judging from how effective AI is and will be, you just have to agree with this point.
You see, when I talk about an AI Doctor or AI programmer and AI this or that, there's a lot of responses that suggest that not everyone will prefer AI doing stuff for them.
Some would say, I prefer a human performing a surgery on me rather than a robot or an AI system. But as time goes on and the records start to show accuracy and higher success rate with AI surgery, I think that's when people will start to change their minds.
Even with autonomous vehicles, not everyone will trust it at first, but the moment we start seeing the records of way less accidents on a roads filled with self driving cars, more people will trust.
This is going to happen for so many job sectors that people will start to rely more on the accuracy and efficiency of AI doing the job rather than humans.
Thankfuly in a rare act of mercy, Bill Gates has given a survival list of jobs that may escape replacements from AI, and if you're specialist in that field, don't rejoice yet because he said that is his prediction for now.
He mentioned three jobs. If you're a coder, an energy specialist or a biologist, congratulations, you might not be obsolete just yet.
I'm sure when I mentioned coding, some of you reading might even start doubting because we see AI already writing its own code.
I tested the coding aspect of Chatgpt and I was amazed. I have had the chance of studying a couple of programming languages in college so I'm aware of just how advanced AI is getting with programming.
Give it a couple of years and we may not need programmers at all for basic apps like calculator, weather, notes, Media player and so on.
OpenAI’s latest models are performing shockingly well, and the funny thing is that AI is capable of spitting out lines of programming that would take humans hours to do.
So for me, if I need a programmer to build a tech, I'll work with him or her and suggest we use AI to do most of the coding and we just fix errors and manually install necessary APIs and that'll probably cut short the time required to build a project by a huge margin.
The Big tech leaders are openly debating whether they should keep hiring software engineers or not.
Yes they probably should keep hiring because human beings will still be needed to correct the coding mistakes AI makes, but the question you should ask yourself is, for how long will we need humans for that?
Let's look at the biologist and the energy specialist. I think they may be safer than the programmers. AI is very good with analyzing DNA and figuring out the issue with a patient but AI still can't come up with scientific or medical breakthrough discoveries. You see we can also put the "not yet" phrase in this one too.
It's all a matter of time and even that can be taken over by AI. As AI keeps evolving it could end up making scientific breakthroughs on its own.
Come to think of it, these breakthrough discoveries don't just come out of our asses.
It comes from already smart and knowledgeable people that engage in science research and experiments.
As we keep improving AI, it'll have so much information and reasoning capabilities to a point where it can simply use reasoning based on all its data to solve problems, find solutions and create new concepts like we do.
However I still think some jobs may never get replaced by AI, perhaps there will be AI versions and human versions but so that this particular blog doesn't become too long, I'll push that topic to the next blog.
What do you think about Bill Gates' predictions and are there any other jobs you believe might actually survive AI replacement?
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