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If AI can even half ass your job you barely had one to begin with. All us healthcare workers and the tradies are still making a half decent wage for real work just like we always have. And the food service and sanitation workers still aren't doing the absolute best but they're not hurting for work either. I'm not going to tell you I like the way my work is valued under capitalism but at least I'm tangibly benefitting other humans.
I don't think it's fair to say that just because you were a commercial graphic designer or translator or copywriter that you were doing bullshit work that was barely worth being called work.
Yes, healthcare is a very commendable line of work, no doubt, but we will see radiologists out of work fairly soon IMO, as well as anyone who interprets lab results, and very likely those who make diagnoses of all types. These are all things that AI will likely be doing better if they aren't already.
Physical care will take longer and won't be replaced until we have AI robots, but the gains there are happening fast too. We may only have another decade or so until we see a lot of that stuff being automated. It's really hard to tell how fast this will all happen. Things do tend to happen slower than the hype around them, but the progress that's happening every year is pretty staggering if you are really tracking it. I'd love to think that my job which requires mostly creative ways of dealing with people and negotiation is safe for some time, but I'm really doubting that I can make it the next 12 years I need to until retirement without some disruption.
Future of health care workers?. This footage is real time autonomous movement. Not sped up, not teleoperated.
The fact that you think I clean houses only serves to prove how little you understand what I do.
Maybe you don't, but I have a father in assisted living and know for a fact that there are an awful lot of nursing jobs that don't look particularly different than this. AI will start with the hardest diagnosis tasks first, and at some point start doing the easiest physical ones. Then it will eat away the stuff in the middle gradually. This is one of the most needed areas for non human labor so it will be one of the most heavily focused on.