Epidemics and pandemics never were easy to get over. In the past we didn’t have the technology or the knowledge on how to protect or how to safe or how to vaccine people against viruses. There were times when viruses weren’t even known. Most of us know them now. The aftermath of a pandemic or epidemic though was known through history even then:
Economic upheavals, you might say, were common. As they are now. At the moment the introduction of AI on all levels seems to cause similar reactions in markets and companies as the introduction of personal computers – at the time.
Will it take over? Will people become superfluous in working life because of it?
By this time, many know a bit more, due to computers, actually…
go figure… ◕‿↼)
I am a technical writer by profession and have documented AI successfully. The US agency Gartner mentioned that documentation specially in their Magic Quadrant on Metadata Management Applications in 2019. That’s why I can safely say here, too:
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- AI is incapable of replacing humans altogether. What will happen and already does, is a shift of tasks.
- And: New kinds of jobs will be created – and do even now, to some extent, such as the ‘prompt engineer’.
- AI, although the name suggests it, does not ‘think’. It is based on probability formulas that are ‘chained’ into certain orders and thus called algorithms.
That is: Statistics. - Therefore, humans will always be needed – as programmers, users and monitoring personnel, at least.
What we are looking at now is a global economy crisis that is mainly due to the short-sighted handling of tariffs on the one hand and ‘war on oil’ on the other by the present US government.
When all is said and done, trade and economy are based on consumers’ buying. If they don’t because they can’t – prices rising all the time – what do they expect?
Supply and demand: That’s the basic ‘law’ of the system. Break the chain and you break the demand – and thus the profit.
For all those of us who have gone through, or are going through, layoffs for example, that is particularly hard. Even more so when there’s no protection through labor unions.
But giving it up – or ‘handing in the tools’ … is no option. In trade, at exchanges, it’s called ‘baisse’ and ‘hausse’ or high and low.
We can get through it. With trust and confidence – in the right places.
YES, WE CAN.