AI is here - Barclays is cutting 5,000 jobs

I also think it's very worrying, especially for the younger generation. There's always a downside with something that has the potential to be wonderful like the internet. Sadly it's also been used also for very wicked purposes.

Will the benefits of Al outweigh the obvious downsides, the shrinking job market, the huge data centres that will consume enormous amounts of resources? how will that impact society's simultaneous needs for our short supply of water for example? As other have said it's all developing at a rate of knots. Particularly perplexing is the alarmist announcements from the very people who are at the forefront of driving it along, They should be the ones who should have had the safeguards in place, so I wonder why they bother telling the population their fears when they've acted like The Sorcerer's Apprentice in the first place in letting the Genie well and truly out of the bottle

Going back to Barclays, I imagine the mass move to banking on line has meant that branches need fewer staff and then they disappear from towns altogether. We're lucky, we have a Lloyds, Nat West and Barclays who I bank with. Whilst I only visit my branch occasionally, I had to the other day, it's very nice to have an actual human being to consult. Not being able to when everything becomes automated will leave a huge void.

Yes it is scary

My son is a graphic artist too. I was worried about him before but even more now FGT!

As you say Fried, it is scary.

This is what I find frightening. The speed by which AI will generate code.

Apparently the new IT frontier will be the verification of what is generated through related test runs, feeding the results back into to AI to polish the code.

The more I think about it I can see the animation film WALL-E
becoming our new reality.
Just substitute our planet for the space station…

I think it’s all very sad and AI has been “allowed” to develop and move on far too quickly.

On a personal note I wish your SiL well in regaining employment.

I’m not against AI per se, but feel it could result in too many job losses too quickly and actually result in “lazy” processes.

I also think the UK were a bit slow in ensuring they had a handle on those with the experience and ability to develop AI and I partially hold the government to account and responsible for this situation.

I think it is very worrying for our young people, lots of desk based jobs are disappearing along with manufacturing to AI and robotics.

Let’s hope they turn to hands on careers like plumbers, electricians, hairdressing, beauty, construction, nursing, care work etc.