The Sceptical Side of AI in the Job Market

We do hear about job insecurities arising out of AI and machines. Loud are the voices which say no to AI as we as Humans are unable to predict where it will take us. Research published in Nature "Algorithmic and human prediction of success in human collaboration from visual features" mentions that individual guesses by humans achieve 58.3% accuracy, better than random, but worse than machines which display 71.6% accuracy. When humans are trained to guess by observing only four labeled photos, their accuracy increases to 64%. And yes, as the data gets bundled up in good quantity and quality, the machine's prediction will go up while we shall require a lot of time for processing the same.

We have already seen machines taking up much of the work for large-scale production where humans are now in the supervisory role and maintenance of the machines. With the advent of intelligent machines with price tags of 16 lacs (Optimus by #tesla) may soon see a replacement for a supervisory role as well. We were also confident that creativity is something that shall be with humans but how the world has embraced the content being produced by ChatGPT, it is not surprising to accept that we were wrong on creativity as well.

The movie "Her" projects on AI connecting with us at an emotional level as well where the human body had just become a tool to voice of the machine, ex-machina also covers the emotional aspect wherein the programmer Caleb Smith falls for the robot specifically carved out based on the searches he had made to suit his likes and preference. The traces of the same can be felt in today's day as well wherein we get excited or angered just by the text we see (power of imagination). When we juxtapose a humanoid face replacing the imaginative face behind the text, it is all that we watched in films. So the human touch which we still feel shall be from humans only, maybe is the one thing we may all cling to but then If machines get smarter, more intelligent and even have an artificial conscience (which runs on past data) then why will they want humans controlling them?

Which leads me to ask "Why should a machine Hire you and not dump you?"

But hey! If one machine hired you and you are able to solve that, other machines can just replicate all of that in speeds taking in not even an hour and then?

Well, machines are better predictors but I would love to hear your take on this.