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Courtside237 t1_j99rdba wrote

It depends on your job… if you work from home, yes it’s coming for you. If it takes less than a week to learn your job duties, you’re done. If you stand in one place most of the day, see ya later. Robots have been replacing humans for decades. Sometimes robots fail mechanically or electronically and won’t do their jobs. It’s at this time that humans have to intervene to repair them. Will they ever be clever enough to repair themselves?

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gurenkagurenda t1_j9afdgn wrote

> if you work from home, yes it’s coming for you

No, this is far oversimplified. If your job requires a ton of negotiation and coordination between stakeholders and clarification of requirements, AI that can do that is a long way off. You will have new tools to make parts of your job easier, but by the time AI comes for those jobs, you’re looking at a radically different situation where your career is the least of your worries.

> If it takes less than a week to learn your job duties, you’re done.

When you count the years you spent as a child learning manual dexterity, almost no jobs fit into this category. Easy for humans is not the same as easy for machines. See Moravec’s paradox

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ArBui t1_j9c5clv wrote

The working from home thing seemed out of nowhere and like a personal jealous jab lol.

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Courtside237 t1_j9b6f66 wrote

Those jobs aren’t typically work from home careers. “Negotiations and coordination between stakeholders and clarification of requirements” would be done in person, regardless that it’s just a bunch of words clumped together. Whatever you say though. I can learn to make subs at subway in a day or two. Go ahead and pretend those jobs are complex. Whatever helps you sleep at night

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gurenkagurenda t1_j9b8d2l wrote

My job requires exactly what I said. I'm a software engineer. I do it from home, often from across the continent.

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MetricVeil t1_j99sflb wrote

>Will they ever be clever enough to repair themselves?

Perhaps, up to a point. More likely, they will self-monitor and alert 'someone' that they are not performing optimally and need to be serviced.

Humans will become 'Keepers of the Machine'. :D

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