My degree is already obsolete. I majored in a foreign language. Chat-gpt4 can write in it better than I can, and synthesized text to speech can probably speak it better than me too. My professors had already told us to avoid trying to work in translation because everyone was getting pushed out of their careers (shittier work with shittier pay and faster deadlines) due to Google Translate changing the industry, and Google Translate wasn't anywhere near as good as what we have now just a few years later.
That said, it will take a lot longer than expected for most companies and countries to implement AI in a way where it actually replaces workers. My company is still using computer software from the 90s, there's no way AI could help anything. There are many smaller languages (like Greenlandic) that AI doesn't yet support, those guys probably won't be using it. I've been in stores in Taiwan that didn't even have electricity or cash registers (they used solar-powered calculators to add up your items), so a bunch of countries like that aren't going to use it for a ways out, despite that countries like Sweden and Japan already have staff-less cashiering in places. We may even see a mass migration away from first-world countries to second and third-world countries where our "now useless" first-world country skills are needed. I agree that big, famous, rich companies are probably going to hop right on it and fire 90% of their staff. Good thing I never wanted to work at a place like Google, but anyways it does really make me wish I had chosen a better Bachelor's subject which would be irreplacable.
Forgot to add, I think AI is good in the sense that it will enable far more people to start their own businesses. You can get it to create art, text, basic videogame code, translations of stuff you wrote, whatever, and then turn around and sell the product, and you have basically no startup costs. But it's bad news for those of us not self-disciplined enough to start our own businesses, or who want to leave the country and need a work visa to do so.
That said, it will take a lot longer than expected for most companies and countries to implement AI in a way where it actually replaces workers. My company is still using computer software from the 90s, there's no way AI could help anything. There are many smaller languages (like Greenlandic) that AI doesn't yet support, those guys probably won't be using it. I've been in stores in Taiwan that didn't even have electricity or cash registers (they used solar-powered calculators to add up your items), so a bunch of countries like that aren't going to use it for a ways out, despite that countries like Sweden and Japan already have staff-less cashiering in places. We may even see a mass migration away from first-world countries to second and third-world countries where our "now useless" first-world country skills are needed. I agree that big, famous, rich companies are probably going to hop right on it and fire 90% of their staff. Good thing I never wanted to work at a place like Google, but anyways it does really make me wish I had chosen a better Bachelor's subject which would be irreplacable.
Forgot to add, I think AI is good in the sense that it will enable far more people to start their own businesses. You can get it to create art, text, basic videogame code, translations of stuff you wrote, whatever, and then turn around and sell the product, and you have basically no startup costs. But it's bad news for those of us not self-disciplined enough to start our own businesses, or who want to leave the country and need a work visa to do so.
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