💼 How To Lose Your Job To AI

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Here’s the daily quests in AI to complete today:

• 💼 How To Lose Your Job To AI

• 🧠 Tuesday Trivia

• ❓️ WTF is Padel?

How To Lose Your Job To AI

So AI is definitely here, and it’s gonna be replacing jobs at a rate we probably haven’t seen in a long, long time. For most jobs, the writing is on the wall, but if you’re not in the know, well, you may very well be blindsided when your boss decides to kick ya to the curb and replace you with AI.

And that’s exactly what happened to Nadestraight in the video above.

His job? A graphic designer at a marketing company where he’d put together websites for customers. Now, building a custom website could be complex, but unfortunately, AI has no problem doing it. And on top of that, graphic design as a whole is one of the jobs that AI is gonna completely wipe from the map, and that’s happening right now.

Now Nade explains he was the only graphic designer at his job because the others were let go, and being that he put in 6 years at the company, getting raises year after year, he thought he was safe. You know, he felt valued because he thought the company valued his work, and that’s why they kept him on. Just wait until you hear what shit they pulled later…

In most companies eyes, you’re just another expense, especially if you get a yearly raise. You know who doesn’t ask for raises? AI. And Nade’s company damn well made that clear.

But this wasn’t before they gave Nade one of the most cushy schedules, um, ever. To be honest, his schedule sounded pretty cushy, and I’d be rightfully pissed off as well if I lost his job. Towards the end, Nade was working from home, really only putting 2.5 hours of actual work in, and then doing nothing the rest of the day. The beauty was he was getting paid for a full 8 hour day.

And roughly six months before he got laid off, his company pulled the oldest trick in the book. Let him work from home, and slowly give him less and less work until he quits, or they fire him. Well, they didn’t wait and just ended up firing him.

Now here’s where the story gets a little sinister. Nadestraight, being the efficient graphic designer that he is, created templates for his job so the design process on his end could go much faster. Smart move, except in this case, would be his downfall.

See, his boss decided to feed every single template that Nade had created into an AI to train it to be just as good as Nade at design, and over that course of six months where Nade wasn’t doing anything really but still getting paid, an AI was running the show. All unbeknownst to Nade, of course.

After letting Nadestraight go with a couple months of severance pay, the question remains, what does he do now?

Well, he doesn’t rightfully know. His entire life was built around graphic design. His job, his degree, pretty much all his skills were trained to be a great designer. But now it’s gone.

And this is going to be the biggest theme for every worker that’ll be replaced by AI.

What the hell can you do to prepare?

In short, become irreplaceable. That may sound like a “duh” statement, but the only way to secure your job in the short term is to learn as many jobs within your company as possible. You’re gonna have to wear 2,3, maybe even 4 hats to be considered valuable. And that’s just the unfortunate truth.

Is that sustainable? Definitely not. There’s no world where that is. But until there’s a paradigm shift where we no longer live to work, this is the world AI has created.

Now if you can, being able to find specific problems and being the one who provides the solution is gonna be the new gold rush, I believe. Obviously, easier said than done, but knowing your job/company inside and out will be tremendously valuable.

🧠 Tuesday Trivia

A little brain treat for ya.

Question:
Which robot had the big brain in the hit film iRobot, featuring Will Smith?

Hint: He’s like family

(Answer at the bottom)

🤗 Daily Delight

Just something fun and interesting around the web.

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What’s happening inside the Realm

A list of side quests to explore and more.

• 🎵 Dipping My N*ts In The Boss's Cup Of Coffee is Cubicle Riot’s single… coming from the AI generated hair metal band that could’ve come from the 80’s. If you’re ready to open your ears, check it out here.

• 👂️ Move over Humane and Rabbit, Iyo’s AI earbuds are looking to r hhapet the AI hardware space with headphones that are first and foremost amazing headphones and
  then a voice assistant.

• 📺️ Samsung is ready to unveil its 8K QLED display with AI upscaling features. Will our eyes see the difference between 4K and 8K? We’re about to find out.

• 🔬 Researchers have created an AI model of a fruit fly’s brain to see how their vision affects their behavior (ie. predictions of behavior once boy fruit fly see girl fruit fly)

Trivia Answer: Sonny

That’s all the quests we have for today. Check back tomorrow for more!

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