we need to seriously think about AI

i was invited to participate in a project based in the US and my mind was blown about how fast the business there are moving ahead with the application of AI. When i say AI i mean LLM here but you could apply the same for other branches of AI like deep learning.

They are using LLM for things in the past we thought too time and labour consuming to bother with, like scraping the internet for media content then extract transcript out of it and analyze media sentiment or advertising trend. So theres a dashboard that can tell you whats on the media today, whats trending today, whether the mood is optimist or pessimist... etc etc

We used to think AI will hurt blue collar jobs, NO, it is coming for white collar jobs. Do you remember the time when we all make fun of botched google translate? (r/engrish) . LLM can translate much better than google translate, even if you use bahasa rojak ( they probably train it on rempit language on here anyway). The AI OCR technology also blows its non AI counterpart away. When i was in Uni i did some part time data entry job, being the lazy i was i tried to use OCR to hasten my job, it probably make things worse as OCR was not good enough and you need to spent even more time to cross check. AI powered OCR now is incredibly accurate.

So in the coming years some jobs are just going to be gone. Data Entry is definitely gone, translators, interpreters are also going to be done. Artist, Designers might be decimated by generative AI. Insurance claim assesor is 100% gone case. Developer role is a bit hit and miss. (LLM generated code is still too messy) but demand for junior/entry level is definitely going to be go down. teachers are definitely going to be impacted as well.

A lot of people make fun saying calculators didnt replace mathematician.. except they did. How many mathematicians are there now? These days mathematicians dont calculate anymore, they do research and build models, as opposed as during the old days where mathematician's actually calculate.

So we really need to think about this because a lot of jobs will be lost and a lot of new industry will rise from it. Right now AI is still in its infancy and the limiting factor is more on the hardware side rather than software. (power usage, cooling needs, supply chain chokepoints etc...), once these are sorted out (it will require some breakthrough tho, we can see mass adopting of AI everywhere)

TLDR verison: AI is going to make a lot of jobs obsolete but also make a lot of things previously not thought possible now possible. If you are a start up, now would be a really good time to revisit ideas that previously unfeasible