20250612 - AI world & future...
I am not an optimistic person. I am not very pessimistic either. I would consider myself as a pragmatist with a slight bent towards pessimism.. . that trait has helped me very much throughout my life/ career to foresee risks & issues more than most others and be prepared for it... The following is guided by that same basic characteristic of mine ... I don't know what % of people in the world are aware of the emergence of AI, its abilities, its consequences , etc. My take is it is a very miniscule %. Apart from awareness, nobody in that miniscule % will know what hit them when it does - because, there will be enormous and very sudden impacts to jobs and livelihoods. One of the very predictable things that is peddled by the folks building these AI systems is that there is nothing to worry about as we will always have the need for jobs like nurses, plumbers, electricians, etc. High touch and needing human emotions kind of jobs. That's true, AI...