Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests::AI will redirect jobs and career prospects, but its impact on jobs and tasks is murky.

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    Executives believe nearly half of the skills that exist in today’s workforce won’t be relevant just two years from now, thanks to artificial intelligence.

    1. Executives are such dumbasses

    2. That is literally all this “study” did. Ask people how many of their skills they think will be obsoleted. This headline is ridiculous.

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      They’re executives. You can’t convince them their ideas are stupid. At best, you encourage them so they fall on their faces even faster and harder.

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        That’s what this means. People whose job is approximating trends to fit in and not do too much harm think that an approximation system is going to replace half the jobs.

        That’s not even critique of them - somebody should do those jobs until there is a replacement. And they consist in large part of diplomacy and such very human interactions, it’s a bit like with replacing prostitutes with machines. Same problem.

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      “Executives” here refers to people who think that a text generator based on a really huge dataset with a cluster of really fast hardware is going to replace a human specialist, while it can’t even reliably replace an expert system.

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    Finally, we’re gonna depricate C cuz random people who were surveyed said so.

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      tbf, when was the last time you used assembly. Your skills are rusting away. It’s time you go learn something else to keep sharp. And never forget your quick basics.

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    lol. If the overlords want to hasten their overthrow, then sure.

    I can’t think of a more likely scenario that puts the rich onto dinner plates.

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    I think this is a very limited definition of the word “skills”.

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      Something like 9 million IT jobs in the US alone, and AI isnt going to replace them no matter how much execs hope.

      Nothing is streamlined enough for a bot to do the job. Everything in IT is so jank that only a human could hope to make sense of it, and the jank is unique at each buisness. Even the “low code/no code” tools that are being pitched create wild problems with data governance/logging/monitoring/redundacy/backups/etc. The “answer” to IT complexity increases the IT complexity.

      Maybe AI can help streamline things going forward for new, greenfield companies, but millions upon millions will still need humans to fix their horrors.