South Africans should not fear AI making them redundant — analyst

Daniel Puchert

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South Africa's big AI and jobs conundrum

Industry analyst Arthur Goldstuck believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be viewed as a tool rather than something invasive and disruptive — and not spark the fear of redundancy.

South Africa faces an economic conundrum: how does it reconcile the disruption caused by AI with its unemployment rate and lack of skills?
 
Daniel Puchert said:
South Africa's big AI and jobs conundrum

Industry analyst Arthur Goldstuck believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be viewed as a tool rather than something invasive and disruptive — and not spark the fear of redundancy.

South Africa faces an economic conundrum: how does it reconcile the disruption caused by AI with its unemployment rate and lack of skills?
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Yeah when i'm at Home Affairs or other Gov offices I'm pretty very very sure AI can replace them FAST.
 
Daniel Puchert said:
South Africa's big AI and jobs conundrum

Industry analyst Arthur Goldstuck believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) should be viewed as a tool rather than something invasive and disruptive — and not spark the fear of redundancy.

South Africa faces an economic conundrum: how does it reconcile the disruption caused by AI with its unemployment rate and lack of skills?
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Yes, many companies think AI is a nice tool, and they can now retrench many staff members, especially the "oldies"
 
We don't want jobs anyways so bring on the AI.
 
If C-level and board-members don't fear AI making them redundant, then neither should anyone else.

AI literally threatens their jobs, directly. As such, AI-development will be controlled in such a way as to have it remain non-threatening to executive roles.
 
Yeah! My job is secure and Cyril's 4th Industrial Revolution won't usurp my job.
 
Don't worry, we'll keep the manual labour to protect jobs for a long time yet, while the AI does the work.

Like the coal shoveler on electric trains. Unions will make sure of that.
 
hj007 said:
Don't worry, we'll keep the manual labour to protect jobs for a long time yet, while the AI does the work.

Like the coal shoveler on electric trains. Unions will make sure of that.
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That's exactly why we still have petrol attendants, farm workers and till staff when other countries have automated that stuff years ago.
 
deweyzeph said:
That's exactly why we still have petrol attendants, farm workers and till staff when other countries have automated that stuff years ago.
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Automation is one thing. But AI cannot do physical labour.
AI cannot do plumbing now can it.

So we might find ourselves in a global paradigm shift, where programmers, accountants, and all the like will be shchitt outta luck while plumbers, builders and street sweepers and painters will rake it in.
 
PaulMurkin said:
Automation is one thing. But AI cannot do physical labour.
AI cannot do plumbing now can it.

So we might find ourselves in a global paradigm shift, where programmers, accountants, and all the like will be shchitt outta luck while plumbers, builders and street sweepers and painters will rake it in.
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Except they'll all be working for free for our robot overlords.
 
If I look at the comms I get from people asking for assistance, I doubt AI will be able to take over my job.
 
PaulMurkin said:
Automation is one thing. But AI cannot do physical labour.
AI cannot do plumbing now can it.

So we might find ourselves in a global paradigm shift, where programmers, accountants, and all the like will be shchitt outta luck while plumbers, builders and street sweepers and painters will rake it in.
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Already happening in many first world countries. The plumbers and builders are the ones waltzing into the Porsche dealerships these days.
 
It will be for the greater good in any event.
 
Well 2 things
Firstly AI isn't really much I and actually neither are most SANs so it's actually only 1 thing
 
WollieVerstege said:
Already happening in many first world countries. The plumbers and builders are the ones waltzing into the Porsche dealerships these days.
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Also cause a lot of parents pressured kids to go to university... not sure the world needs a lot of BAs
 
Lupus said:
Well 2 things
Firstly AI isn't really much I and actually neither are most SANs so it's actually only 1 thing
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The underlying mathematics and statistics of AI have been around for centuries. It's just recently that the necessary computing power to actually practically implement those models have become economically viable.
 
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