People Replace by the Machine in the Future

[Dr.Kisaragi Dr.Kisaragi]

With the rapid growth of AI, many people are afraid that it will replace human workers and leave very few jobs for people.
I'm saying this because during our road trip, after the kids had gone to bed at the hotel, my brother and I went to a bar. We met a few people there who had lost their jobs because of AI. One man told me:

"My boss said he had to keep up with other companies. AI works faster than humans, and if we kept using the old methods, we'd fall behind. He said he had no choice."

My brother then reminded me of a side quest in Steambot Chronicles. In the quest, a factory owner asks you to find a blueprint. When you bring it back, he reveals it's for a machine that can produce clothing thread much faster than human workers.
If you return to the factory later, you see the giant machine installed. The workers beg the boss's wife not to turn it on because the factory is their only source of income. She also pleads with her husband not to use it.
When you speak to the boss, he thanks you for finding the blueprint. He explains that if he doesn't modernize, his business will fall behind the competition and eventually fail. Without profits, he won't be able to pay his workers anyway. He says he hates the idea of laying people off, wishes he could pay them more, but feels he has no choice. (I never actually finished the side quest because I chose not to turn on the machine.)

The game has a setting inspired by the 1930s. It made me realize that more than 100 years ago, people feared that industrial machines would take away human jobs. While many traditional jobs disappeared, entirely new kinds of work also emerged.
Today, we're hearing similar fears again, except this time the technology is AI instead of machines. It makes me wonder whether history will repeat itself—whether AI will eliminate many jobs, But will there ever be a new job for people to support the livehood or this gonna be fully take over the whole livehood of humans, Is the people from 100 years fears that day machine take over jobs and livehood of humans

My brain wonder about this ever since we talk those guys

What is your though or opinion about it

 

[Pandaprewmaster325]

My two cents on this are:

The Terminator did irreversible damage to our perception of AI , if anything we will have skyturd instead of skynet in the near future and the long future after that too

 

[PrismRed]

Steambot Chronicles mentioned.

Coincidentally I work in IT, talks of AI replacing staffs are unavoidable, but I don't think AI gonna be able to replace human anytime soon in the future.

Just my opinion, going by logic, Artificial Intelligence as it's name suggest is artificial, it needs a source of base intelligence it can draw from, which means the only thing AI can learn is something that humans already have learned. AI lacked the ability to innovate and creative thinking, which only human can do.
Companies relying on AI gonna lead to stagnation, in turn, the company will reach a point where it can't grow anymore, human element has to be inducted back to the system eventually.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

We have been replaced by machines since before the Industrial Revolution, though (jobs like human alarm clock and guys who worked lighting up public lanterns in major cities were very much a thing before affordable electricity and clocks became the norm).

However, this is the first time we seem to be eager to usher forward unheard-of unemployment rates and a myriad of other issues not as the side effect of progress, but as an ignored issue we are completely aware of. It's a thing of madness.

Being up shit creek without a paddle is our signature move as a species.

 

[lestagio]

I'm a programmer and it's been funny, the past year or so. I've been watching many people "vibe code" (using LLMs to write code for you) and companies have been trying to usher us to use AI in our code. And I'm not going to pretend that it isn't helpful. BUT where I am, it's certainly clear that it's in no space to replace people yet.

Shit's certainly been going downhill these past few years, but I seriously think things are going to get better. The AI garbage has become a novelty. A large, expensive one nonethless, but people are finally waking up and pushing back. I don't think we need to eradicate it; like anything else, it's a tool.

AI is currently driving unemployment in several places, and not all of that is going to change. But I think that some of it will. Despite all the doom that you see posted online, AI cannot do as good of a job as people in many different departments. There's a pretty blatant bubble, and it's slowly starting to rupture. Before things get better, they're gonna get worse, and AI won't ever completely go away, but I think it will eventually stabilize.

Companies relying on AI gonna lead to stagnation, in turn, the company will reach a point where it can't grow anymore, human element has to be inducted back to the system eventually.

This entirely. Things are eventually gonna stop growing, investors, will stop investing so much, the bubble may pop, and humans might come back. I'm no expert so I'm just speculating, but probably by 2030, I think we'll begin to see a bit of recovery. Hopefully.