Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Are you serious? How did you get that from what I wrote? Honestly, this is absurd.
Butlers, Cooks, Kitchen maids, these all became hotel workers. Valets and Ladies Maids, they became seamstresses, etc.
Journalists used to use a typewriter, then they used a computer. They used to have a library to find old pictures, articles, then it was microfiche, then it was digital.
It used to be that a chauffeur was also a mechanic. The business is not "trucking" but rather "shipping". It involves inventory, receipts, tracking, loading, unloading, scheduling, tracking, trucking, etc. Just because the trucks are going to be transitioning to self driving doesn't mean that people are no longer involved in the process. The fact that you drove a truck gives you insight and an advantage to move into these other positions.
Likewise, someone who can program AI is probably not suitable for driving a truck. Working with real truck drivers on simulations would probably be essential to designing the program. Likewise, we are now teaching AI by giving them data from which they can learn patterns. This data could be videotape from truckers who are driving.
Unfortunately for these "high priced jobs" which you are referring to as "high valued jobs" are very likely to be replaced shortly. For example, any doctor with the assistance of Watson can now be very similar to the top "experts" and specialists in the country. Accountants and CPA's can easily be replaced with Watson so that the local CPA guy doing tax returns on the street corner can be every bit as adroit and expert. The same is true of stock brokers. But here is where this theory breaks down. You have to have a certain amount of training to be able to use these programs. It may be feasible, but certainly unreasonable, to think that the 350 million people in this country will have access to these sophisticated computer systems and know how to use them to their fullest potential. Therefore you will not be replacing jobs, instead you will be converting the average doctor, stock broker, CPA with experts without increasing the cost to the consumer.
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