NFR AI - How It Will Affect Jobs In The Next 5 years

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albula said:
I don't use my phone to pay for anything but given that my bank has closed all branches within 2 hours of me I do use it to deposit checks and perform basic banking procedures. Is that something that I should also avoid doing?
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I think it's fine to do that.
 
RCF said:
Lots of discussion about AI in another thread about where to live. So as not to derail it, this one is being started.

AI - lots of points of view out there. This one provides information from a number of sources and I found it to be easy to read and understand.

www.nexford.edu

How will Artificial Intelligence Affect Jobs 2026-2030 | Nexford University

You would have been living under a rock if you did not know how artificial intelligence is set to affect jobs in 2026-2030. AI like ChatGPT seems to be stealing all of the headlines at the moment, Google unveiled new AI software to build presentations, analyze and enter data, and write content...
www.nexford.edu www.nexford.edu

It is only a simplified overview, balanced overall, and a reasonable place to start IMHO...
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We can so we should? Soylent Green
From a overly simplified thinker and AI hater.
 
RCF said:
Directly related to topic of this thread. No more 5 year plan... It is outdated.

www.cnbc.com

LinkedIn CEO: Ignore this common piece of career advice—it's 'outdated' and 'a little bit foolish'

Young professionals should focus on learning and new experiences, says LinkedIn CEO.
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Not a bad article. One thing about AI, people might as well quit bitchin about it because it is going to happen eventually. Either learn more to help in your job/life, or disconnect from the internet fully.
How many people bitched about the internet, computers years ago, now accept them without second thought?
 
Leaders from Anthropic and Google will testify Wednesday before two House Homeland Security Committee subcommittees about how AI and other emerging technologies are reshaping the cyber threat landscape.
  • "We believe this is the first indicator of a future where, despite strong safeguards, AI models may enable threat actors to conduct an unprecedented scale of cyberattacks," Logan Graham, head of Anthropic's AI red team, wrote in his opening testimony, shared first with Axios. "These cyberattacks may become increasingly sophisticated in their nature and scale," he added.
Catch up quick: OpenAI warned last week that future frontier models will likely possess cyber capabilities that pose a high risk — significantly lowering the skill and time a user would need to carry out certain types of cyberattacks.
  • A group of researchers at Stanford released a paper detailing how an AI agent called Artemis autonomously found bugs in one of the networks tied to the university's engineering department — besting 9 out of 10 human researchers who also participated in the exercise.
Between the lines: Researchers at Irregular Labs, which runs security stress tests on frontier models, said they've seen "growing evidence" that AI models are improving in offensive cyber tasks that includes improvements in reverse engineering, exploit construction, vulnerability chaining and cryptanalysis.
 
How AI is affecting my job today:

Trying to shop to get a new office computer and finding out that RAM prices have been skyrocketing due to AI hogging all the resources.

We're taking several hundreds of percent increases on RAM. Going to be dang near the cost of what I was expecting to pay on the whole system just to get the RAM I want.
 
Evan B said:
How AI is affecting my job today:

Trying to shop to get a new office computer and finding out that RAM prices have been skyrocketing due to AI hogging all the resources.

We're taking several hundreds of percent increases on RAM. Going to be dang near the cost of what I was expecting to pay on the whole system just to get the RAM I want.
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Does this effect all computers? I just got a new $300 HP laptop and it has more capability than I will ever use but I am an old boomer from when phones were connected to a wall socket.
 
fatbillybob said:
Does this effect all computers? I just got a new $300 HP laptop and it has more capability than I will ever use but I am an old boomer from when phones were connected to a wall socket.
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It's likely a previous generation model that wasn't affected yet. And I'm going to guess it doesn't have more than 8GB DDR4 ram, which isn't what's getting gobbled up. It's the higher tier DDR5 sticks in the 32GB and up range that are really being hit.
 
Evan B said:
How AI is affecting my job today:

Trying to shop to get a new office computer and finding out that RAM prices have been skyrocketing due to AI hogging all the resources.

We're taking several hundreds of percent increases on RAM. Going to be dang near the cost of what I was expecting to pay on the whole system just to get the RAM I want.
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I'm really regretting not buying a couple sticks of RAM before the prices went to the moon, even though I was only casually considering upgrading my gaming PC. There was quite a bit of chatter about it beforehand and I didn't take it seriously enough I guess 😂.
 
Evan B said:
It's likely a previous generation model that wasn't affected yet. And I'm going to guess it doesn't have more than 8GB DDR4 ram, which isn't what's getting gobbled up. It's the higher tier DDR5 sticks in the 32GB and up range that are really being hit.
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The tech giants that dominate the stock market are set to spend an estimated $700 billion on AI, but that money is going toward infrastructure, not application.

  • They're paying up for data centers and chips — the guts that power AI before they have the applications that will make them money.
 
Evan B said:
It's likely a previous generation model that wasn't affected yet. And I'm going to guess it doesn't have more than 8GB DDR4 ram, which isn't what's getting gobbled up. It's the higher tier DDR5 sticks in the 32GB and up range that are really being hit.
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After 12 years I did a new desktop build back in the summer. Following my rule of trying to double what I had previously speed wise and capacity. I see that the 2tb ssd has nearly doubled in price since I ordered in June. The two 16gb sticks of RAM were $120. Now $459!
 
SurfnFish said:
The tech giants that dominate the stock market are set to spend an estimated $700 billion on AI, but that money is going toward infrastructure, not application.

  • They're paying up for data centers and chips — the guts that power AI before they have the applications that will make them money.
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Kind of reminds me of the Dot.com bust of the 1990s. But the level of investment is far larger this time.
 
kmudgn said:
The best use of AI is stuff like the image below (that's why they call them rock stars)

A very old photo showing Willie Nelson and Keith Richards building a pyramid​


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My wife has been using a Google Pics AI tool to animate old photos, so that, for example, her parents are smiling and waving in and old black and white photo. It reminds me of the pictures in the newspapers in the Harry Potter moives.
 
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