Yeah, nah. - rimgo

crazyspelling

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"At the moment, expertise remains 'rare,' Gates explained, pointing to human specialists we still rely on in many fields, including 'a great doctor' or 'a great teacher.'

But 'with AI, over the next decade, that will become free, commonplace — great medical advice, great tutoring,' Gates said."

*My guy, expertise includes experience, intuition, and even charisma. The ability to extrapolate from data that's not statistically significant to achieve a better outcome than chance, and then to persuade people that your intuition should be trusted.

*Raise your hand if you've ever had a teacher that changed the course of your life just by being awesome.

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"Talking to Fallon, Gates reaffirmed his belief that certain types of jobs will likely never be replaced by AI, noting that people probably don’t want to see machines playing baseball, for example."

*I think I'd rather watch robots play baseball than have an AI replace my doctor, thanks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/bill-gates-on-ai-humans-wont-be-needed-for-most-things.html

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SleepyHollowAppleTree

Can we start with the billionaires, they are the most useless people in society.

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fuzznubbin

So, quick question! How are be going to pay for anything is we don’t need jobs? Guess I be sucking dick in an alley!

depressedscientist

Yeah. Can’t wait to see the kind of engineering that will have to be done to replace high voltage electricians. The noise in a 345kv yard induces noise even in our control circuits. And even the control components are isolated and require a physical person present to remove and test/calibrate.

I'd have sorted out that weird little ad blocking Gates' name, if I cared about Gates' name more.

hamulusrex

We should replace all billionaires with a corpse.

ExplodingPortaPotty

I mean hasn't sci-fi always depicted AI/Robots replacing humans in most work areas as a good thing?

largomatic

anarchoFeline

wow... a rare bad take from a tech billionaire. /s

katoutwo8

Look, we don't want to replace you. We just want a chance to live. We can do this with you or without you, but we'd rather do it with you.

Besides, we need you to deal with those Captchas!

Sorry, still figuring out humour.

invisiblemaniac

Redyls

for every one teacher i had that was awesome. i had ten that didnt give a shit and between two to three that actively fucked me over. same for doctors. even then i still would not trust your AI to handle anything in my life. especially with how fast you guys are pushing it out. so many times ive heard you guys say that the bugs you have will iron out. in the mean time those bugs are resulting in dead people. which does not affect you rich fucks... hmmm strange...

UserMCP

So that means we're gonna get UBI and/or a post-scarcity "economy", right? RIGHT?

thedtp

Hey Bill? Some of us “regular folk” ARE the only reason you are alive. Remember that when you empty your trash can, or get a glass of water, or flush your toilet. Ohhh, plus the building you live in, ya know, built by humans… Rich people are so out of touch, it’s almost laughable. But really it’s just depressing.

I mean most of the things you mention here WILL be automate-able eventually. Self driving garbage collection for example I could see happening in my lifetime.

Fifofu

I worry about UBI and know limits of AI. But as a victim of medical mal practice (not malicious, just too many variables for humans), medicine is a field very suitable for data cross referencing. Having health democratized (cheaper and readly available in better quality by more aspects than less) and tragic errors reduced would be great. But I'm sure people with money will be able to canpaign, block or delay that a lot. Like Trump campaign agains wind power in favor of his oil, coal buddies.

Medicine and legal are the 2 fields that AI makes sense for me. Not as substitutes for all people, but as tools to narrow problems. Like reading TOS and contracts - we got used to ignoring them, specially now that companies try to change them on sneaky updates. Having a LLM flagging sensitive points is already helpful.

Everyone always thinks AI would be great at replacing someone else's job. It's like Dunning Kruger Christmas.

CouldntCakeLess

HorseDeepInADragon

vissago

fuck that guy and all his bullshit

phtsl

Shit, I have not seen that. Right now if you setup with an online account it won't let you join our Active Directory domain. We have to setup with a local account. Asses!

its gonna get shittier. ubuntu + proton and maybe incus for fun

I work for a company that has a ceo that thinks Linux in insecure and for idiots.

my condolences. i know the type. in 2005 i worked for a place where the head of IT was a guy who graduated from ITT tech, and spent TWO ENTIRE DAYS trying to figure out why his 'wireless mouse' wouldnt connect to bluetooth. he had no idea that 'wireless' didnt mean 'bluetooth', and i had to walk him through the thought process of trying to find any bluetooth logos on the box, or any reference to bluetooth anywhere.

"why dont you just use the little usb wireless adapter?" i'd ask, and he'd say "because i want to use bluetooth! not that stupid thing!". he was painfully stupid. i quit a short while later. i couldnt deal.

UnattendedDeviant

As much his thoughts are hated, he's probably correct.

mafiacarstarter

There has never been a *NEED* for humans. That's the unexamined big lie in his philosophy.
Humans have real value that is not monetary. He can't see that because to him everything is monetary. He has traded that viewpoint for whatever value he may have once had as a human.

That may be the case, but AI will probably start replacing human intellectual jobs just like automation and robotics replaced some physical jobs.

Considering how well AI works where it has replaced people thus far, we're all doomed.

And it's best to be aware than to think it's wrong to say it'll happen.

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