To put these salaries in a historical perspective: J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the Manhattan Project that ended World War II, earned approximately $10,000 per year in 1943. Adjusted for inflation using the US Government's CPI Inflation Calculator, that's about $190,865 in today's dollars—roughly what a senior software engineer makes today. The 24-year-old Deitke, who recently dropped out of a PhD program, will earn approximately 327 times what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb.The AI researchers are much more valuable to the world economy than some entertainers who play basketball or soccer.Many top athletes can't compete with these numbers. The New York Times noted that Steph Curry's most recent four-year contract with the Golden State Warriors was $35 million less than Deitke's Meta deal (although soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will make $275 million this year as the highest-paid professional athlete in the world). The comparison prompted observers to call this an "NBA-style" talent market — except the AI researchers are making more than NBA stars.
Yes, AI researchers should be paid more than athletes, entertainers, and government workers.
Microsoft says AI will obsolete these jobs:
1. Interpreters and Translators
2. Historians
3. Passenger Attendants
4. Sales Representatives of Services
5. Writers and Authors
6. Customer Service Representatives
7. CNC Tool Programmers
8. Telephone Operators
9. Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
10. Broadcast Announcers and Radio DJs
11. Brokerage Clerks
12. Farm and Home Management Educators
13. Telemarketers
14. Concierges
15. Political Scientists
16. News Analysts, Reporters, Journalists
17. Mathematicians
18. Technical Writers
19. Proofreaders and Copy Markers
20. Hosts and Hostesses
21. Editors
22. Business Teachers, Postsecondary
23. Public Relations Specialists
24. Demonstrators and Product Promoters
25. Advertising Sales Agents
26. New Accounts Clerks
27. Statistical Assistants
28. Counter and Rental Clerks
29. Data Scientists
30. Personal Financial Advisors
31. Archivists
32. Economics Teachers, Postsecondary
33. Web Developers
34. Management Analysts
35. Geographers
36. Models
37. Market Research Analysts
38. Public Safety Telecommunicators
39. Switchboard Operators
40. Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary.
Meanwhile Microsoft reporting record profits, laying off programmers, and hiring Indians on H-1B visas.
2 comments:
Perhaps you should add 'AI programmers' to that list. What's good for the goose must be good for the gander....right?
The list is actually considerably longer...and it includes most white collar professions. I'm sure this will be fine with all the people who suddenly discover they are as professionally useless as all the blue collar workers they used to mock about having their jobs outsourced.
Maybe it's time to have an honest conversation about who's job should be protected and who's shouldn't be, because it seems many fine people are unwilling to give a damn (or think) unless it's their OWN skin in the game. Sometimes people need to suffer a bit before they finally understand their own arguments.
To spell it out for the over-educated classes who think themselves immune, A nation full of unemployed people won't be paying taxes or sending their kids to overpriced universities that will not improve their now non-existent employment prospects...and the clever grifters in Silicon Valley won't be able to nuzzle up to a federal money trough if it's empty. Something for the folks on Captiol Hill to consider if they like their comfy chairs and have an strong aversion to torches and pitchforks.
Yes, the AI programmers are training the bots to replace themselves.
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