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Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

I’ve been a Technical Writer for 35 years.

I’m also bilingual with experience in technical translation and bilingual writing as well as being experienced in copywriting, instructional design, proposal management and proposal writing, knowledge management, copywriting, writing and editing articles, resumes, and professional profiles, content strategy, and design.

I’ve also managed my own business, a Tech Pubs dept for a decade, and projects, products, and teams.

Last but not least, I am a creative author, an artist/illustrator, and photographer.

Ai does all of the above.

Scott Abel's avatar

Fortunately, it doesn’t actually do all of those things well. Not even close, oftentimes.

Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

I’ve never been a Luddite, but I understand them now.

Honestly, I’m scared.

Not so much for myself at the end of my career at 65, but for my two sons (Music Composer/Author/Tech Writer/English Teacher in Asia

and a Software Engineer in the Bay Area), my daughters-in-law, my nieces and nephews, cousins and their children and grandchildren, my great nieces and nephews, and my

six-month old granddaughter.

I pictured each one of my young family members.

What life will future generations face?

Fake, sickening lab-based foods, and no work?

I watched a live-streamed Tech seminar from Dubai on X.com.

At the end, an American Tech Leader I didn’t recognize had an ominous parting shot:

“Ai is here to stay. ACCEPT IT.

Your grandchildren will be marrying Robots.”

Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

Takeaway:

Though senior Microsoft researcher, Kiran Tomlinson, clarified to Sky News that the study 'explores which job categories can productively use AI chatbots, not take away or replace jobs'.

Yet, the jobs with the highest AI overlap are:

Interpreters and translators (98 percent overlap)

Historians (91 percent overlap)

Mathematicians (91 percent overlap)

Proofreaders (91 percent overlap)

Automatic machine coders (90 percent overlap)

Writers and authors (85 percent overlap)

Statistical assistants (85 percent overlap)

Sales representatives (84 percent overlap)

Technical writers (83 percent overlap)

Journalists (81 percent overlap)

Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

However, when Fallon asked Gates 'will we still need humans?' he offered a chilling answer, replying: "Not for most things - we'll decide."

Though he did go on to clarify that some actions will remain human-driven, though not many by the sounds of it.

He added: "So there'll be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things, and growing food, over time, those will be basically solved problems."

Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

Ai is a cool time-saving and cost-cutting tool.

That’s what we were promised.

Not that it would replace us.

I wouldn’t be so keen on defending it.

Susana Rosende of ART HOUSE's avatar

We were supposed to be “The Jetsons,” not “Soylent Green.”