Death by AI: apps and jobs threatened by artificial intelligence

Theoretically computers supposed to kill mathematicians. It's capable of doing all kinds of computation but it became a tool for them, very useful one.

AI making great great designs for example. Let's say I own a t-shirt brand and everyone has access to AI. With one click boom 1000 awesome prints. And what? Someone will still need to go and decide what to print. Someone need to go and negotiate with the supplier, find the right marketplace or pick the right marketplace suggested by the AI. AI can do thousands of things at once but we can't and that's not a bad thing.

Big corp will replace us with the power of AI. But we'll find a way. :)

I think the most relevant and well-stated entry is "Writers". If your job is pumping out in-house product blog posts - and they're just ads disguised as content and your human writing is worse than a fifth grader, then you should be very worried about your job security. I think they're gonna be the first to go.
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"If you're writing for humans, you're probably safe. If you're writing to please some algorithms, there's a chance one of them will do better.

Choose your audience wisely!"

The writing is on the wall. I've already started capitalizing on it. This feels like the moment the internet first came into play.

Tons of uncertainty but lots of opportunity.

I see AI as an opportunity for efficiency and growth in a lot of fields. If we continue to think of it as a threat, it's a conscious choice NOT to see its value.

The challenge with AI and such tools is that it starts to commoditise what used to be considered talent and differentiators between professionals in different domains.

This is kind of of like digital cams/ mobile cameras to me. In the past making photos was really hard, let alone snapping good ones. The skill of the person who is snapping the photo really mattered to create a good one. With mobile phones and filters in everyone's hand these days making good photos is probably not as hard as it used to be but it didn't kill good photographers, it gave me extra tool in their arsenal to create on a higher level.

AI will challenge a lot of people indeed and will make some jobs obsolete without doubt but it also creates opportunity to create at a higher level. Not everyone will be able to capitalise on that probably and it will fill the Internet of crappy content but the most talented will still thrive and stand out. At least I hope to :)

Right now it's impossible to predict the exact extent to which AI will disrupt the job market in the future, but it's clear that some jobs will be more vulnerable to automation than others. Jobs that involve repetitive tasks, data entry, and simple decision-making are more likely to be automated, while jobs that require human interaction, creativity, and problem-solving are less likely to be automated.

"But it's probably more adaptive for entrepreneurs to reframe it as a flood of new opportunities." - Forget reframing it THIS IS OPPORTUNITY no question about it. It's going to be a tsunami of " AI + X = WIN "

I think AI is a new powerful tool that is a game changer that every entrepreneur should be going full speed at. Similar to the greatest innovations this will create new opportunities if you go look. I’ve been playing around extensively with openai’s toolsets and it’s not as easy as you think to make it do what you want. A friend of mine passed along a term “Prompt Engineering” where it’s a whole new field to figure out how to talk to the ai and bring back the results you want. I thought it was very similar to no/code programming - you still need to figure out the language to talk to it. In general I would say don’t look at the obvious applications but focus on that valuable niche where folks are in super pain where this new powerful tool can release their creativity.

Thanks for sharing this here @channingallen! As an aspiring indie hacker, I feel honored :)

I created this website after realizing that ChatGPT could almost do what the tiny product I had been working on does: generate a list of acronyms and definitions for a document (https://listofacronyms.com/)

I say "almost" because I noticed that even though the output looked neat, it was also not reliable (missing acronyms, adding acronyms that are not in the source text).

My initial idea with this page was to show apps that look like they've just become obsolete because of the recent progress in AI and briefly explain why each is still relevant. I was afraid this would quickly turn into a massive backlinks page, so I went with some generic, well-known items instead.

Love the idea carried over from killed by Google, fun read! 😊
It’s interesting to observe the reactions to the sudden evolution of AI - I think it’s much more the speed of evolution rather than the actual capabilities that scares people. Usually it’s fairly easy to predict how a job will change over the next 5-10 years. With the recent tidal wave of innovation most people probably aren’t at all certain what their job and demand for skill might look like in just 2 years time.

What about doctors? AI has already shown promising capabilities in diagnosing a range of diseases.

Great perspective, Channing Allen! Instead of being threatened by AI, it's smart to become a part of the revolution. I understand that you aim to create more interesting AI applications before it disrupts your work. Embrace the change, leverage opportunities, and create more value with AI. Best of luck in your journey to be a part of the AI revolution, not a casualty of it.

I think lots of jobs that transform original artwork/content into publishable form will be disrupted. In our case, we are doing after the job role of "video editor" by promoting Fully Automated Video Editing (having video editing software that only has one single "magic button" and does all the work). Once we provide an open API, it will be much easier to automate video-making workflows than to use outsourced or in-house editors.

I would also definitely think that some clerical jobs will disappear/non longer be outsourced. (See the embedded screenshot here from a conversation with a very successful friend preparing for litigation)

I think one of the opportunities is helping people in the disrupted industries to create more value by building on top of the new tools, but even that might be short-lived.

IMHO ChatGPT is huge threat to lawyers value proposition. And most lawyers are already on the wrong side of the digital divide.

The fax machine was replaced by email. The typewriter by a word processor. Fedex lost some business due to DocuSign. Kodak was eliminated by smart phones. We built AI for small business accounting. And there are 40 million small business accountants. Technology was designed to consume and disrupt. I mean SaaS threatens Enterprise software as well as throws corporate IT budgets into chaos.

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Yeah AI is a threat. But who cares? That's how tech works. Machines are built to increase efficiency, and yes make their inventors and users richer. The cavemen will always use inefficient methods. Maybe they can 'handcraft' articles and blog posts and certify them as "Organic Human Intelligence" or something and people will pay a premium for those services just as they do for "Organic Food". Lol.

The problem created by AI is to differentiate between AI-generated content and created by real humans. Who's willing to provide a service, or solutions that able to differentiate content author types? Do you know if any existing solutions exists?

Great share, @channingallen!

Been thinking about this a lot lately and how much AI is going to impact us in the long run. Still pretty early, but would love to start seeing some data points on its impact. My guess is we'll start seeing some tangible reports out soon.

For now, from a personal standpoint - I'm thinking a sensible move is to try and adapt as much as possible to this new landscape - maybe even shifting gears ever so slightly if it makes more sense.