The guest on Jon Stuart was scary. How AI eliminates all jobs

[question everything]

Last edited Tue Oct 7, 2025, 01:11 AM - Edit history (1)

I am glad that both of us are retired and do not need to look for a job. And are too old to learn new skills.

Here is the clip

https://www.democraticunderground.com/132291285

[GenThePerservering]

1. Pundits were yapping about that

When computerization came in. ::yawn::

[question everything]

2. It was mentioned but clearly it is different now. AI even prevents its own termination

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. And they were right, weren't they? (n.t.)

[Klarkashton]

3. So far AI is like Google for people that don't know how to search Google.

It can also do weird ass graphics.

There is a lot of bullshit about what it will do "someday".

Show me.

[lapfog_1]

4. not quite

it does a lot more than that.

For example, I used to architect software and then give the requirements and general outline of the automation to "people" ( contractors here or in India )... now I just feed it to an AI and it writes the code for me. I then just need to clean it up. The AI explains every step ( which makes for excellent documentation ) as it writes the python, C code, or shell script ( or Go ).

Companies that build either assembly factories or shipping warehouses are using AI to do better planning and layout ( constructing something known as a digital twin ) and watching how the factory or warehouse works at different required workloads... AI makes suggestions on how to improve the factory.

Plus there are a lot of other applications...

People are focusing too much on video creations or text messaging. and the "hallucinations". Is AI perfect? No... not yet, but it is getting better at an extraordinary rate. Compared to 2 years ago, it has really improved.

[Klarkashton]

5. Linear programming and operation

Research tools have been around for a hundred years. All they did was scrape old shit and made it usable for people that didn't know how to use it
Most likely it gives wrong answers anyway.

[Disaffected]

7. I just dabble in HTML app (code that runs under a web browser) development as a retirement project.

I know little about HTML coding itself but use an AI online app called Windsurf/Cascade which takes an English language description of what the app is to do and codes, tests and debugs the HTML with my feedback. Works amazingly well - it is like interacting with an actual skilled programmer. It explains exactly what it is doing and even provides a lot of useful suggestions for improvement of app functionality. And it's inexpensive - about $15 per month for a single user.

In one example, "we" wrote and debugged approx. 1,500 lines of code over the course of a few hours - I couldn't even type that code in as fast if I was simply copying it.

I'm not sure I would even want to enroll in a major like computer engineering or science now-a-days.

[Orrex]

11. That's wild.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. It's already writing news stories

whose veracity is taken for granted, and creating photos of people doing things they didn't do in places they weren't. So it can make people believe pretty much anything.

So, if somebody does show you, how would you know whether to believe it? How will you know what you can believe? How do you know this post abd a ton of others aren't AI-generated?

[usonian]

6. Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Translation: the output sucks.
It was a dumbshit move to can people.
https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to get human workers to fix the technology’s screwups.

As the BBC reports, there’s now something of a cottage industry for writers and coders who specialize in fixing AI’s mistakes — and those who are good at it are using the opportunity to rake in cash.

Sarah Skidd, an American product marketing manager, told the British broadcaster that she’s not concerned about being replaced by the technology because, as her recent work experiences have taught her, she’s often tasked with cleaning up its many mistakes.

Earlier this year, Skidd was approached by an agency that urgently needed someone to redo copy for a client after having an undisclosed AI chatbot do the work to save a few bucks. The writing was typical of AI, she noted, calling it “very basic” and uninteresting.

Don't trust your life on AI.
He did

[iemanja]

8. My boss talks to us about how AI is necessary

to do what is in effect our jobs. Someone, however, reassured me that our institution takes so long to implement new technology that I’ll be retired by then.