I guess I’m much more optimistic about the capability of AI going forward than most people, or at least more aware of the implications. I think most people are just sleep walking and see the present capabilities but don’t make any effort to project what will happen in a year, 5 years. etc. I work in accounting. pretty entry level role. considered getting into financial planning. right now I basically do tax prep. I can’t help but feel this overwhelming sense of I guess futility… not sure what the right word is… I just fundamentally think the entire career field I work in will essentially not exist in 5 years, and I think this is true of many career fields. like I’m sitting here looking at someone’s documents and figuring out how to build their return and there is just no world where this is an actual job in 5 years and 5 years is being conservative. this isn’t just true of simple tax prep. I think AI will be able to handle virtually all of white collar work in the not too distant future. and I don’t mean 90%. I mean 99.99%… I’m not sure how to sit here and feel any optimism or motivation for my job given I hold this belief. of course nobody around me thinks about these things so it’s all business as usual to them. in my mind I’m just thinking wtf am I even doing man… I guess there isn’t really an alternative. I could go learn a trade or some physical skill and last another 10-15 years before robotics comes for those jobs. I’m not an AI doomer. I’m agnostic as to what the future holds. I think we will probably find ways to engineer purpose and meaning in life. that said, in the near term I just feel like my day to day is so pointless… a great analogy would be if you knew a meteor was going to hit the earth in a year, but nobody else was in on the secret. I think I essentially have that exact feeling in the sense that there is an overwhelming sense of pointlessness specifically in regards to my work, but nobody else sees it. submitted by /u/Difficult-Quarter-48
Originally posted by u/Difficult-Quarter-48 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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