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selphfourgiveness t1_jbhs54m wrote

Reply to comment by uncoolcat in We live in the Jetsons now. A Flying Motorbike Company Gets Listed on the Nasdaq by jwright100

I don’t like the number of vehicles we have on the roads now; the thought of our airspace filled with hover bikes and flying cars (or whatever term we might apply to personal flying vehicle) really turns my stomach. Imagine hardly being able to look up and just see the sky in many areas? Gross.

And yeah, the noise, too.

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Notsure401 t1_jbhodne wrote

Reply to With A.i advancements. What are some skills everybody should be learning now to better live in the future? by Moon_Devonshire

Any career path that involves decision making: Law, Business, Management, Marketing, etc.

Those will be hard to replace because guess what, no matter how well a machine can perform the tasks involved in those areas, POLICYMAKERS WON'T RELINQUISH DECISION MAKING TO MACHINES ANYTIME SOON.

You can ask an AI chat bot anything about legal counseling, but no matter how good they are at solving cases, judges and many legislators themselves are LAWYERS, they will always demand a human to have the final saying on anything. They are the key masters.

Also, science careers that help you understand what the heck is going on in this brave new world: Engineering, economics, mathematics, computer sciences, etc.

Stay away from philosophy, most of humanities, psychology. They are already obsolete, in a matter of years they will be meaningless, in a generation or two they will be worth little more than astrology. Sorry if i'm being too harsh on the last one, no mean to offend anyone but it looks like we are heading there.

Last but not least, no matter what you do, pick an athletic and/or an artistic skill. Health and creativity are more important than ever for self improvement.

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Turbulent-Pea-8826 t1_jbhnov3 wrote

Reply to With A.i advancements. What are some skills everybody should be learning now to better live in the future? by Moon_Devonshire

Tech is still where it’s at. AI can write code but someone has to know coding to ask for the code and to know if it’s right. AI will write the wrong code with the greatest of confidence. You can’t just get some AI to write some code and throw it out into production without testing and knowing if it will work.

We still don’t have (full on human)robots, so robotics will be huge while that catches up.

IT support. Users can’t even articulate what the issue is with their computer. “It’s broken” is all I can get out of them half the time. I had one guy accidentally close his app and he just kept saying the computer shut down. It was powered on, it never lost power he just closed his browser window somehow by accident.

So while AI will take some of the stress of front line IT Helpdesk support we still will need people to interpret the idiot users and change their printer ink for a while.

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uncoolcat t1_jbhgcex wrote

Reply to We live in the Jetsons now. A Flying Motorbike Company Gets Listed on the Nasdaq by jwright100

This lacks wheels, so by definition it shouldn't be considered a "motorbike" or a "bike" by itself. It's a hoverbike.

The article states that it "runs on electricity", which feels a little misleading because it is powered by both batteries and an internal combustion engine.

Anyway, it's an interesting product, but with as loud as these very likely are I dread the idea of them screaming through residential areas.

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