Although there are already real-world examples of jobs being replaced by AI, the jury is still out slightly on the overall impact artificial intelligence will have on the job market — and which jobs could be AI proof.
Responding to an audience question on this exact topic in the behind-the-scenes clip below, Daily Show host Josh Johnson speaks about the technology’s creative limitations.
“I’m not necessarily afraid of AI in what I do as far as performance. I think it’s been already very well said that, like, the things people do for connection and for real experiences, AI can’t replace,” says Johnson. “Obviously someone could ‘lose’ their job to AI, which isn’t really true — someone gave your job to AI. Like, the AI didn’t come in the room, with legs, you know what I mean?”
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“The thing that AI does to people that I don’t feel like anyone talks about, because I think it is embarrassing: Having the entire world of possibility mixed up in the internet for like A and B testing, and for mixing and matching everything that should be copyrighted; Having all of the human history that has been digitized and stolen, only reveals to you how few ideas you really have. You know what I mean?” Johnson continues.
“When you are sitting in front of a thing that’s like, this is a text to image AI, right? Type in anything you want, I’ll give you an image of it? First five minutes you’re probably pumping out stuff that seems funny, fun, I’ll show somebody this, whatever. After an hour you’re like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what I would do with this.’ But this thing only exists because of the ideas that we have, so it’s a vicious cycle that doesn’t really go anywhere. And so I think that when the bubble pops, it won’t be in some dramatic way where employers are like, ‘We’re hiring everybody back because we were wrong.’ I think it will just quietly be people realising that it is a tool, but it is not a replacement, you know? So I don’t worry about it in that way.”
Sam Haysom is the General Assignment Editor, UK, for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
