Google CEO Baffled by Suggestion That AI Will Take People’s Jobs

[vtqhtr413]

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https://futurism.com/google-ceo-baffled-ai-take-jobs

"For 20 years of tech automation, people have predicted all kinds of jobs would go away," Pichai responded, adding that "movie theaters were supposed to end" as the result of tech innovation. That's an interesting choice on Pichai's behalf, considering that theater attendance has been steadily declining since 2002, not to mention that Hollywood is in the throes of a writer's strike in which AI has emerged as a major issue.

But when Patel pointed out that the film industry is in decline, the Google CEO almost seemed at a loss for words, "There's always going to be... Unemployment over the last 20 years of tech automation hasn't fully... Twenty years ago, when people exactly predicted what tech automation would do, there are very specific pronouncements of entire job categories which would go away," said a seemingly flustered Pichai. "That hasn't fully played out."

 

[Jonny Quest]

I suppose if you were the CEO of Google pushing AI, would feign surprise that "his" beloved AI would actually take away people's jobs...really??!! Granted, we shouldn't underestimate the beneficial side of AI (medical, research etc) but, to be "baffled" by that suggestion, seems a bit much for me.

Goldman Sachs Predicts 300 Million Jobs Will Be Lost Or Degraded By Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs maintains that if generative AI lives up to its hype, the workforce in the United States and Europe will be upended. The bank estimates 300 million jobs could be lost or diminished due to this fast-growing technology.

www.forbes.com

Tech & AI News - IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI - Bloomberg News

(Reuters) -International Business Machines Corp expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years, CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News on Monday. Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources...

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[Zero Knowledge]

My thoughts too. It's a bit rich when he and Google promise the earth and how the technology will transform society blah blah blah.

Some jobs will go, and some will stay its natural evolution. Care based jobs and construction will grow but manual work, labour intensive computer tasks and customer service roles will go. But it's potential is mind boggling. It will automate so much work, study and research.

I think it is the next great leap forward and the potential is going to be realised. It will free up so much time for big thinking work and projects since humans are no longer doing manual work.

 

[vtqhtr413]

@Jonny Quest ,I thought about posting this in that thread, probably should have.

Tech & AI News - IBM to pause hiring in plan to replace 7,800 jobs with AI - Bloomberg News

(Reuters) -International Business Machines Corp expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming years, CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News on Monday. Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources...

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[MuzzMelbourne]

These people live in a bubble so its not surprising he's flummoxed...

 

[Jonny Quest]

These people live in a bubble so its not surprising he's flummoxed...

Like politicians, who haven't lived in the "real world" for decades. I'll keep it at that, so as to not derail an enlightening thread by Bryan. edit: and I mean that in a good way, @BryanB as it is interesting to hear where some of these people are at, or coming from.

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Doesn’t Think Now Is the Time to Stop on AI

TIME spoke with Satya Nadella about Microsoft’s principles around AI, how it could transform work, and what safeguards should look like

time.com

 

[Jonny Quest]

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Doesn’t Think Now Is the Time to Stop on AI

TIME spoke with Satya Nadella about Microsoft’s principles around AI, how it could transform work, and what safeguards should look like

time.com

Nice article, nice format. Some good questions were asked and answered.

 

[vtqhtr413]

I'll keep it at that, so as to not derail an enlightening thread

Please feel free to take the thread to wherever it leads you, always, in any of my posts

 

[SumTingWong]

Hollywood writers are pushing for AI regulations as well. There are Youtube videos that are done by AI as good as done by human beings. Companies are laying off people top to bottom and left to right plus freezing hiring. Companies love to maximize its profit while paying cheap wages as possible, and this is where AI come in. Tech sectors are hitting hard right now. Blue collar jobs seem to be safe at the moment, but not for long though because these tech giants are accelerating robots research and development to build robots that can do the same thing as human being can do like lifting heavy objects, pushing heavy objects, putting things together by hands, etc...

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Hollywood writers are pushing for AI regulations as well...

I feel for anyone whose livelihood is threatened by any innovation, but...

...I want my comedy to be as funny as possible... I could do with more laughs atm. Who/what writes, or performs it for that matter, doesn't bother me.

 

[FoxtrotCZ]

Migrants will take jobs. AI will take jobs. Everybody will take jobs
Luddites all over again. They cant adapt so they force the world to stop evolving.

 

[TairikuOkami]

So AI will essentially end outsourcing, people will have to pay for a premium support provided by actual people.
It is already being abused and it is hard to tell, if you are talking to a bot. Biometrics is no longer a safe option.

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Thankfully I'm not important enough for anyone to be bothered to do all this just to get to the 50 cents in my bank account.

AI me... fail.

 

[Trident]

research and development to build robots that can do the same thing as human being can do like lifting heavy objects, pushing heavy objects, putting things together by hands, etc

These robots have existed for more than a decade. For example the SEB group has a manufacturing facility in Mayenne, France which is automated and assembles goods for the brands Tefal, Rowenta, Moulinex and Krups. Beko, another appliance maker, has a fully automated manufacturing facility in Romania that even recycles water. Robots exist for all sorts of tasks such as painting, applying zinc coating, lifting, porting, loading into vehicle, inspecting, welding and others. Processes like Lean Six Sigma that determine candidates for automation have existed for quite some time too.

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[Zero Knowledge]

AI regulations

The problem is not regulations, governments are very skilled at creating useless regulations that are never enforced. The problem is how do you keep people employed in in well-paid meaningful jobs in the age of ML/A.I. You have to keep the glue that holds people and society together, how you do that when a large portion of low skilled jobs that are no longer viable is the big issue.

I want my comedy to be as funny as possible... I could do with more laughs atm. Who/what writes, or performs it for that matter, doesn't bother me.

I think A.I. could rewrite The Soprano's & Seinfeld's finales and we would get a better outcome in both cases

Thankfully I'm not important enough for anyone to be bothered to do all this just to get to the 50 cents in my bank account.

Not yet but if you become a crypto millionaire, it might change . At least you will now get better spam than porn extortion scams .

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Nah, no problem, more enjoyment from porn than crypto. I'll stick with being broke and relaxed at night thanks...

Don't think I saw the Seinfeld finale... but I remember the 'Soup Nazi'!