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Key takeaways
- AI has well and truly hit the mainstream, with startups touting its potential to disrupt almost every industry imaginable.
- There’s no doubting the power of machine learning, particularly combined with robotics, and we’re looking at some of the jobs which are more likely than others to be taken over by AI.
- AI investing apps are a particularly exciting use of machine learning, allowing regular investors to gain access to sophisticated trading strategies usually reserved for only the most wealthy.
AI is everywhere right now. It’s been slowly growing in popularity and importance, but recently it’s burst into the mainstream with a number of high profile (and very cool) projections and applications.
One of the most talked about has been the AI image generation technology such as Dall-E 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. These programs use text prompts to create incredible pictures of scenes and characters which are only limited by the imagination.
One guy from Colorado even won a prize for digital art at the State Fair, with an artwork that he created using Midjourney. While there was a cash prize of $300 on offer for the win, the odd art prize here and there probably isn’t going to see AI have a major impact on the economy.
The thing is though, the uses of AI go much, much further than making pretty pictures.
We’re seeing the use of artificial intelligence grow all the time, across all different sectors of the economy. This is likely to end up with many jobs as we know them ceasing to exist. That sounds a bit doom and gloom, but the reality is that the use of AI tools and technology is likely to help free humans up to focus on more rewarding and fulfilling work.
So let’s take a look at some of the jobs that could be rendered obsolete by artificial intelligence.
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Factory Worker
In reality, this has already been happening for quite some time. The use of robotics in the manufacturing sector has a much longer history than you might have guessed. General MotorsGM
are credited with being the first major manufacturer to introduce robotics into their assembly line, installing the UNIMATE machine in their New Jersey factory in 1962.
Yes that’s right, the same year that Lawrence of Arabia won the Oscar for Best Picture and Elvis Presely was in the pop charts, and there were robots building cars.
Things have obviously progressed since then, with many manufacturers of all types operating factories housed with hundreds of robots. Some are now even fully automated.
But there’s a big difference between robotics and artificial intelligence. A robot is designed to perform a set task in a set way, over and over again. This is useful for tightening bolts or moving heavy objects, but not as useful for situations where decision making is needed.
That’s where AI comes in.
This is one of the key roles outlined by Elon Musk at this years’ Tesla AI with the introduction of Optimus, their humanoid robot. The idea behind this technology is that it will enable …….