Why or why not? Maybe it has already and you had to shift gears?
One big point of contention that incited the big writer's strike going on with the WGA right now is that writers are concerned that movie studios will utilize artificial intelligence to begin churning out scripts. And after hearing how much of a banger that completely A.I.-created version of a Weeknd/Drake song is, my eyes are completely open to the possibilities. Does it lack a little bit of humanity? Yes. But it is a Weeknd/Drake song after all, so that is par for the course.
I've read accounts of artists and graphic designers who are finding it difficult to secure work because when you can plug in metrics in a program to spit out a vivid drawing of Snoop Dogg as a pirate, you kind of don't need someone to scribble up your album cover.
As far as my own livelihood is concerned, the tech company I recently began working for has been making a HEAVY push to digitize our many, many files, scan through the documents with artificial intelligence and create a tree that will theoretically capture the analysis that myself and other analysts try to summarize on a daily basis as the bulk responsibilty of our job, and make it readily available to our clients.
It seems like aspects of my job still require human interpretation as it deals with applying ever-changing laws to decades old contracts...but my immediate bosses have privately expressed concern to us that our dept may be eventually phased out as this technology heads forward. They're speculating a 5-10 year time frame for this to occur.
Personally, Idgaf as this not my dream job and I am working on my golden parachute, planning for it to deploy before then (I'm 38 and have a burgeoning career as a professional skateboarder).
But this is how I currently pay the bills and I would be lying if I said it's not a little bit concerning.
So what about you?
Are you concerned as well? Do you see the impending doom of being phased out on the horizon?
Were you a warehouse worker or a grocery store cashier and you have already been hit with reality?
Or maybe you are not worried at all? Maybe you have some kush job putting your feet up on your desk, smoking mushrooms and drinking iced mochas all day, in the sales dept of your wealthy uncle's A.I. technology production company and you've got it made, ready to go all full-Skynet on the rest of us? I wanna hear from you as well...