AI as a Tool for CEO's

[AKKuya]

All I'm seeing.  AI is giving a reason for firing thousands of people.  This is not a positive thing. 

[CptTrips]

All I'm seeing.  AI is giving a reason for firing thousands of people.  This is not a positive thing.

Neither is mortality. 

What is your remedy?

[Edit]

BTW, you're not wrong. 

It's just not worth harping on.  It's going to happen.  It's already baked into the cake.

Layoff will start getting ugly 2026.  By 2027 people will be seriously panicking. 

At first they will try and blame it on the cyclical downturn from the coming recession\depression.  But the truth is, those jobs are not coming back.

If you are not a welder or a mechanic or a plumber, if you are not in the top 20% of your peers at work, if your in the middling skills or a young person starting out,  you're toast.
By 2027, AI will have taken all intellectually menial work.  And a lot more people do intellectually menial work than like to admit it.

I'm curious what happens when you approach 50% unemployment.

Buy more ammo.

[Animl-AW]

A CEO is usually just a low-life to begin with. His job is not to hire you, its to find more ways to fire you.

Why I stayed freelance/outside contractor with a strict contract
Because I love telling a CEO in corp stuff, FU pay me.

Pay attention to what products and services you patronize.
I’ve always refused to use things like Amazon. I use direct purchases whenever possible.
I won’t eat at large franchise restaurants.

Most things I buy online is through a rechargeable store bought card. They screw me over I simply don’t recharge it and toss it.

Look how fast you can crush a car maker.
How and where one spends is more powerful than a nuke.

Think if you just wait to pay taxes until end of yr. I don’t do loans.

[nopoop]

I moved to the trades in 85. The fleet trucking are dieing for mechanics. Tbey would hire 4 tomorrow today at my old job. Alas now I work at changing beer in to urine...

Getting good at it   

[CptTrips]

We will have some form of UBI by 2030.

Or figure out some way to eliminate half your population.

[Captain Virgil Hilts]

This should tell you how top heavy most companies are with unnecessary "white collar" jobs that add zero to the value of the product or the bottom line of the company.

You don't need twelve "engineers" to "design" a simple "widget" by "putting their name on it'. And you don't need three dozen managers, managing 6 dozen managers, who manage a dozen managers each, who are managing 5 people each.

Speaking from inside a large multinational corporation, I can tell you that it is becoming evident that there's more chaff than wheat in most large businesses, and it's becoming impossible for them to compete and maintain profitability.

They continually push us to "make use of "AI", and I happily remind them that "AI" can't do what I do, and is a hindrance, not a helpful tool. With an evil smile on my face when I do it.

That said, "AI" will almost certainly become the bane of human existence. And "AI" is still subject to the clown who writes the original programming, so it is still garbage in, garbage out. It's just a matter of who creates the original garbage.

[AKIron]

Someone has to collect those TPS reports.

[Busher]

AI is not a tool for CEO's but most CEO's are tools.

[Eagler]

I would imagine sound engineers would be an easy AI job swap..

I know the last 6 years I spent before retirement doing  contractor software QA testing will be totally replaced by it..

Need an AI tax to fund the huge UBI $$$$ needed to keep food and electricity flowing into the newly unemployed and basically useless and not needed..

Eagler

[AKIron]

With advancing robotics there's really no job an AI won't be able to do. Some jobs may remain cheaper to do with humans.

While the movie The Matrix was entertaining I don't believe it possible for human bodies to be net producers of energy.

[AKIron]

So, in fiction, an AI will determine which resource is more efficient in completing its desired tasks, humans or machines. If humans prove to be less efficient or more trouble than they are worth....

[Eagler]

So, in fiction, an AI will determine which resource is more efficient in completing its desired tasks, humans or machines. If humans prove to be less efficient or more trouble than they are worth....

Well let's hope they program in laziness, hangovers and forgetfulness to give us a fighting chance..

Eagler

[Animl-AW]

I would imagine sound engineers would be an easy AI job swap..

Eagler

Yes and no.
In the late 90s, before digital consoles, wanting to mix multi channels in a PC, I designed a script that would keep the input gain at zero on the meters. Was just messing around. Nver let anyone see it because of just that. Then digi consoles came out and it became more real than I cared for..

There is some physical work that no AI can do. Patching in the mic cables, mic choice, mic placement. For a monitor engineer, not only is he mixes for that artist as adrenaline changes, instrument volumes change, things break. Something goes bad its up to him to get out there on stage and fix it on the spot within seconds -1-2 minutes. I/he controls the entire stage. Its not just mixing. There are also cues during the show where the mix will change for certain parts, then back again. Then there is feedback if using wedge speakers,… what mic out of 30-40 is causing it, which graphic EQ out of 4-22 needs the tweak.

FOH mix, maybe. There is nowhere near the work a ME does. I hand him a product to mix.He only mixes left-right and center. - front row fills. I’m doing 4-22 mixes at the same time. He’s doing 1-2.

AI COULD do that as long as it knows how the songs are suppose to sound. The gear rental to do that would cost x4 of a human show payroll.

You’d have to keep the crew no matter what AI can do, you’d only be replacing 1-2 guys. Monitors is highly doubtful. A lot of split second decisions made second to second.
Top that off with one or both of us will have talent buyers, promoters, record company and sound company execs are standing behind us making sure we make no mistakes and approval of our work. Its a ship load of pressure. They probably can’t communicate with AI to change something. There are so many things to do I barely remember the actual show. You’re not sitting there enjoying a show, things change. Things don’t always go as planned. It might be easier to pilot a trip to the moon.

Can it be done? Maybe in some form of lameness. Will it save money? No. Some dweeb exec will probably research it, it won’t go far, he’ll be fired for trying and failure..

One of the main reasons we have lame-ish digital consoles is because you can stuff 2-3 tons of and $100k-300k of analog sound gear into a 150lb console, 2 tons less in truck room and weight. They do not sound as good as analog. It saves money. A corp idea. Problem is, that console crashes you lose everything. I’ve seen the pure panic of a digi console crashing mid-show. Scary AF, you’ll be fired for it crashing and your reputation smashed..

Is it possible? I guess. Probably not in my lifetime. Maybe studio stuff, not live.

[AKIron]

All AI needs is one recording of how each specific song is supposed to sound. Then it can mimic that every time with ease.

[Animl-AW]

All AI needs is one recording of how each specific song is supposed to sound. Then it can mimic that every time with ease.

Edited
True. As I stated, MAYBE at FOH. It won’t save money. Monitors would be a challenge, they are not mixed like a record, they are custom to each individual, only center stage sounds like the record where they all couple together. An individual mix won’t even make sense to you. Almost never is each monitor a full band mix. Gtr player may just have the other gtr , keys and vocals. Drums and bass may only have each other, drum toms are almost never mixed in monitors. they hate lead gtr in their monitors. The only drums used is kick, snare and hi-hat to keep everyone in time. Lead vocal may only want himself and keys to keep him on key. It changes from band to band and even mid-show.if that needed change doesn’t happen have fun finding work, you just blew a show, and the whole industry will know it within a week. You won’t get hired,