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The idea of a world driven by robots empowered by AI methods, is really great. It gives freedom to everyone with almost no costs. Just doesn't work so well with a capitalistic society as the one we currently have.
Such uses demand a non-capitalistic socio-economic system. Like some form of communism.
Remember the meme about everyone could have a 32 hour work week and three-day weekends (and a productivity boost) but the billionaires are opposed?
Well everyone could have post-scarcity communism but the billionaires are opposed.
Who could have seen this coming!
just need to change your name to "AI" and suddenly every company will want you
More lifehacks next time
Make sure you don't put "Al" by mistake though. You'll only get offers to be part of "bodyguard/long-lost pal" collaborations with people called Betty.
but why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard!
Don't sell your self short like that. I've been working since 2003 in engineering and I wouldn't trust anything that came out of an AI without confirming it with someone with a degree.
Additionally, think of AI as a librarian with photographic memory. It will never ask the right questions. Additionally its memory is influenced by what it has read and its not photographic is mixographic...it will remix any text you give it. Best it can do is not misspell words. Otherwise you can't trust anything it returns.
You on the other hand can do all sorts of knowledge gathering, inferring, etc and make knowledge based decisions rather than text based decisions.
I wouldn't trust anything that came out of an AI without confirming it with someone with a degree.
That's because you care. Most of these companies don't. I think they've made that abundantly clear. But they are learning quickly.
Someone will have to. At our company we still have the glass seiling. But I'm pretty sure everyone knows that new people are pretty much useless so we have to grow them into someone useful. If they leave it hurts all the way up corporate. Try different companies and see if you can find one that cares. In my experience big companies really truly suck much. But they are stable for you to keep helping them. Small companies are stable and full of emotional problems. But that's my kind of people.
The problem is you are working in engineering and understand the limitations. The decision makers at corporate don't care, they see bonuses based on short term cost savings.
Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.
Yes. This sucks.
The main cause of this is artificial intelligence
Unlikely.
The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)
Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.
I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.
AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.
ill hazard a guess, just like 10 years ago when thier hiring was already pretty bad, listings implies FULLY trained applicants are required and or h1b visa holders, they dont want to waste money to train people from the ground up, they expect you to have years of experience by the time of graduation.
I was looking for this comment. This is it—not AI.
My company transitioned to using contractors for low experienced new hires. Our only reqs being approved by management are 10+ YOE.
Sorry kids, time to apply to a few more places.
Agreed, and unfortunately articles like this are food for CEOs to do more under the guise of AI. "See, it works!"
AI just gives executives an excuse to layoff their staff without spooking their investors.
