If you happen to read Nexus or Twenty Lessons or Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, you will be shocked that there are jobs which are soon going to be taken over by the AI!
The top three shockers in his estimates were Taxi drivers, postal workers and Pilots!
Yes! Pilots in the list is pretty shocking! We will come to that soon!
In a recent list by the Forbes though, Pilots are safe! For now at least!
They have included jobs which are going to be taken over by AI which actually have higher probability to be gone by 2025!
According to their ‘expert’ analysis which of course was done by a human (with help from the AI!) states that there are areas which could be better handled by the AI or by automation! These are manufacturing jobs (machine operation, product handling, testing, packaging, testing, etc.) and retail and commerce roles (customer service, inventory management, fraud analysis)!
Not to forget the Basic data entry, analysis, and visualization jobs
Financial analysis and projection roles and also travel agents and itinerary providers and Translators!
When you go through the list you would realise that most of the above list is already true! Even when I get stuck with a patient who speaks a different Arabic than routine, I used to call the translator some years back! Now all we both do (the patient and me!) is whip up our phones and get the Google translate!
The shocker ( at least for me!) in the list was the fact that human drivers are being replaced through autonomous vehicles, such as what we’re already seeing with Waymo!
Driverless cars will soon be the norm while mails will be completely automated!
You would think that your job or talent is something which a bot can never get then well, you may soon be proven wrong!
Like in Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot; the lead (Will Smith in the movie version!) asks the rogue Robot if it can write a symphony or paint a masterpiece!
The intelligent and more evolved robot fires back much to the shock of will “can you?”! It is not easy to make Will speechless!
If you are then planning to make your son or daughter a pilot then do it soon! Yuval states in the books that apparently pilots use the autopilot in the plane most of the time!
The onboard computer takes into note of the weather, altitude and distance and does the rest! In fact the only chief time when pilots are really needed is landing and take off! That’s the reason why they announce and do it I guess! But many automated machines are being taught to do even that!
Talking about Drivers and Pilot reminds me of this scene from amazing work of Goswamy Tulsi das, the Ram Charit Manas; When the driver of the Boat refused money from Bhagwan Ram he said that; “People belonging to the same profession do not charge each other for the same service!”
Sri Ram asked him, “How can we have the same profession?”
The boatman said, “We are similar Sri Ram! I am the guide of this small boat and river, while you are the guide of the whole universe!”
Luckily the AI can never understand the emotions behind those lines!
Wish you all a very Happy Ram Navami!
Jai Sri Ram!
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