Artificial Intelligence – or A.I. - taking over office jobs...to start with.
In light of this possibility I and going to quote something paraphrased in the original post that came from the second scariest A.I. movie I can think of:
"Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... EVER, until your job has been fully automated!" —Kyle Reese in a reboot of "The Terminator," possibly.Some of the examples of A.I. that is already out there is already impressive. I think we’ve all seen examples from things like ChatGPT and Grok, just to name two. One friend has said he uses A.I. rather than Google to do web searches because as he said, “I get better results that are more relevant to what I’m looking for.” I have also seen examples where A.I. gets it hilariously wrong, particularly when it comes to generating images.
Could A.I. do my job, engineering, better than I can? For some parts of my job I’d have to say that it probably can, particularly when it comes to dealing with the products I help design and develop by ensuring they will meet the ever growing range of environmental regulations and requirements being generated, particularly in the EU. But when it comes to being creative, to wondering “What if?” and seeing what can be done, I would have to say that it can’t, at least not any time soon. My job has led me to file for and receive a number of patents, many of which were thought of by wondering if there were better ways of doing “This, That, and the Other Thing” which has in turn led to new products that have garnered a lot of business for my employer.
What about other jobs like bookkeeping, logistics planning, order entry, or product schedule planning, just to name a few? I’d say the answer is a qualified “Yes”, that being because it isn’t quite there yet, but it is getting there.
What about something as simple as providing companionship? A.I. is already doing some of that as we’ve seen with the phenomenon of so-called A.I. “girlfriends”. We’ve seen the fictional application of A.I. for this in the movie Her even though the A.I. hadn’t been developed for this purpose.
Is A.I. scary? Yes, part of that being we don’t really know what it will become capable of doing. We’ve seen examples of A.I. going wrong in movies like The Terminator. As I said, I thought it was the second scariest A.I. movie. The scariest?
Colossus – The Forbin Project.
The coolest A.I. movie?
A.I. Artificial Intelligence, with Haley Joel Osment as an A.I. in the form of a young boy.
Getting back to the main subject, will A.I. end up taking over your job? Who knows?