Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)

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Half Of All Skills Will Be Outdated Within Two Years, Study Suggests::AI will redirect jobs and career prospects, but its impact on jobs and tasks is murky.

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[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 107 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Executives believe nearly half of the skills that exist in today’s workforce won’t be relevant just two years from now, thanks to artificial intelligence.

Executives are such dumbasses
That is literally all this "study" did. Ask people how many of their skills they think will be obsoleted. This headline is ridiculous.

[-] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They're executives. You can't convince them their ideas are stupid. At best, you encourage them so they fall on their faces even faster and harder.

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

And blame everyone around them as usual

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 18 points 8 months ago

Maybe it's "Half of all exec can be replaced with AI in 2 years"

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Technically true, since you could also just replace them with nothing

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

That's what this means. People whose job is approximating trends to fit in and not do too much harm think that an approximation system is going to replace half the jobs.

That's not even critique of them - somebody should do those jobs until there is a replacement. And they consist in large part of diplomacy and such very human interactions, it's a bit like with replacing prostitutes with machines. Same problem.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

The most logical next step. AI? If you're listening you heard it hear baby

[-] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 9 points 8 months ago

"Executives" here refers to people who think that a text generator based on a really huge dataset with a cluster of really fast hardware is going to replace a human specialist, while it can't even reliably replace an expert system.

[-] JDubbleu@programming.dev 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

LLMs aren't gonna replace anyone's jobs anytime soon. Their true power is making people even more productive.

I keep getting told that AI is gonna replace devs. While copilot at work is fucking awesome to use, it's also created the scenario where AI doesn't have to compete with devs anymore, it has to compete with devs who can use an AI to automate the easy stuff and do even more impactful work. You can apply this to basically all jobs. So until the LLMs can outperform a human + AI we're gonna be fine.

Not to mention until an AI can coax out what the fuck anyone even wants us to build in the first place I think we're safe.

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago

Finally, we're gonna depricate C cuz random people who were surveyed said so.

[-] Toes@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago

tbf, when was the last time you used assembly. Your skills are rusting away. It's time you go learn something else to keep sharp. And never forget your quick basics.

[-] los_chill@programming.dev 14 points 8 months ago

Yeah cause 'works well with a team' or 'can explain a down month to a client' is about to be replaced by an LLM. Bullshit. Nothing to see here.

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 8 months ago

This is why I just focus on Rocket League now.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago

lol. If the overlords want to hasten their overthrow, then sure.

I can’t think of a more likely scenario that puts the rich onto dinner plates.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

They’re forgetting rule 0: do not get on the Infra team’s bad side.

[-] DrBob@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

I think this is a very limited definition of the word "skills".

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Finally, all these years of maintaining no skills pay off.

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago

And maybe everyone will finally stop calling me to ask one last real quick technology question...

[-] bacon_saber@fedia.io 3 points 8 months ago

Totally thought this was an Onion headline, and laughed.

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world -2 points 8 months ago

Already preparing to shift from IT to other venues.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Something like 9 million IT jobs in the US alone, and AI isnt going to replace them no matter how much execs hope.

Nothing is streamlined enough for a bot to do the job. Everything in IT is so jank that only a human could hope to make sense of it, and the jank is unique at each buisness. Even the "low code/no code" tools that are being pitched create wild problems with data governance/logging/monitoring/redundacy/backups/etc. The "answer" to IT complexity increases the IT complexity.

Maybe AI can help streamline things going forward for new, greenfield companies, but millions upon millions will still need humans to fix their horrors.

[-] Perilous@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

If anything, AI will create more IT jobs, not less.

[-] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Looking forward to goat farming within 20 years. I'm not even joking.

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