Artificial Intelligence: Practical guide to obtain competitive advantage from the use of predictive models and enabling technologies by Mazziotti Tommaso

Author:Mazziotti, Tommaso [Mazziotti, Tommaso]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-08-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Job Market

All Jobs Will Be Replaced

Let's cut to the chase because every time that this topic comes up, it's really associated with the job that's being replaced. The problem with this topic is that people see the short-term result of what a specific technology will do. The truth of the matter is that all of the jobs in current existence will be replaced, given enough time. It is extremely easy to define and put into place machines for cooking hamburgers. The fact that we refrigerate hamburgers that are pre-made proves this point. Machines can already do most of the basic work that we need them to do.

It is not difficult to automate something, but what is difficult is choosing what needs to be automated. If you have ever talked to an accountant before, you will find that most businesses have different situations for their financial needs. It may be very easy to replace the hamburger maker or the cook in the kitchen with a robot, but it is much more difficult to replace the person who can assess the situation. The challenge with artificial intelligence is that it doesn't have something that allows it to understand the context.

Whenever you go to pay your bills, you may not pay your bills on time on purpose. In an automated system, the bills will be paid on time every time. However, you may need to wait a week to pay a specific bill because of a certain reason. A lot of people delay paying bills because of reasons and one problem that robots have is understanding context, the reason why something is being done. This means that even though all jobs will eventually be replaced, the jobs that will be replaced last are the jobs that require context. You cannot automate the process of building a full-scale website, you can automate the design process, the building blocks, and many of the different elements of a full-scale website but that website changes based on the company needs.

Even the Creative Jobs

This means that eventually, even the creative jobs will be replaced once artificial intelligence machines can understand the context. Here's the problem though; why does it matter? Why does it matter that jobs will be replaced? Jobs exist to continue our survival and basically to give us something to do until we die. It's not really a bad thing if all the mandatory jobs are replaced by robots because there is always going to be something else to do. So you don't have to make hamburgers, but you can choose to create a shop of human-made food. That will become a specialty, shops that pride themselves on using only Human Services. Sure, you could automate a car fully, but a car is not going to speed down a runway at top speed to give you a drill thrill. Robots are designed to repeat routine tasks, things that you do for fun are things that only humans can do.

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