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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Nurse here, there are many jobs AI would never be able to do.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wake me up when the AI travels to the network PoPs for me to replace broken parts, to install new transponder cards and new routers, to cable everything up correctly, to label it all and to photograph the result for documentation.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So, end capitalism and build a fully automated post-scarcity utopia where machines do all the work and humans spend our lives doing the things we really want to do?

Sounds good bro, let's do it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Something tells me this offer applies to ruling class only

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We're not that naive

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

He's the one who ordered all the zoom employees to RTO right? Are we supposed to expect him to let people go to the beach?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Jokes aside but in the not so distant future you will be able to clone your image and voice and just pay some third-World guy to pretend to be you in video calls while you pay him a cut from the salary

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And what… my work will still pay me???

I don’t think so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You guys don't have paid vacation or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sure, but not endlessly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I enjoy what I do, for the most part, and take pride in my work.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

What he understands as "work" is easily replaceable with an AI. Good to know.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I also want this. But Zoom is a corporation, so it must be some sort of trick.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"and all your income from these calls will go to zoom"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

As an employee you can enroll in our voluntary PTO insurance coverage benefit to only pay 40% of your salary to zoom while on PTO, you get to keep 60%!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If jobs consisted of only attending video calls and wiring emails, the world would be a very different place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I honestly don’t know if this would be like letting toddlers run a daycare or if it would be paradise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Honestly, I have trouble imagining such a world. Hmmm... The more I think about it, the more it just kinda sounds like high school... Sends shivers down my spine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well we're getting there in tech...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a developer I have to say OH hell nah. If I had to compare the issue to something more layman, I'd compare it to tesla's self driving. If I have to watch it the entire time it does its thing because there's an almost certain chance it'll mess something up CATASTROPHICALLY due to the fact that it literally lacks the ability to understand, than I might as well just do it my self. It rarely saves time and only in dumb cases, that should have been automated in other ways a long time ago.

Not saying it's not a very handy tool occasionally, just that it can't come up with solutions to problems on its own, which is like 75% of my work. And it can't do this due to a fundamental limitation in how learning models work, no amount of training will fix this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We're getting close to 100% meetings and bullshit reportings in tech was what I tried to convey.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Sounds like the kind of work my analyst does. I guess he's technically part of the development team, so sure??? Our 3 client mediators are totally taking over. Also pretty sure we're the only IT department that even has such a thing. The only other person in our IT branch to be mainly doing calls and such is the top head of IT, every other IT boss still has a lot of technical work around their necks. So at least at my job "close to 100%" is an absolute farcry.

It's a very similar story at my girlfriend's work place. Except they don't even have analysts.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They want this, until Zoom employees start using it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

The Zoom RTO was just hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Ah yes, because in our economic system, people with no job can just relax at the beach all day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

This sounds like employed with extra steps.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

s/at the beach/while your unemployed/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Zoom CEO is obviously an idiot. Who listens to those people?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's not the question. It's how do these rot economists get into these leading postions and how do we prevent this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

You must be a ruthless piece of work to become a CEO

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