Hmm... see, when i went, a 2-year was an associates, a 4-year was a BS or BA, then it went graduate with MS, then PHD. I've just never seen 4-year that wasn't a bachelors.... but then that was 30 or so years ago for me. Even tech colleges have 4 year bachelors degrees (or had....a long time ago...).

And, the only difference between a college and a university was how many graduate programs it had (or something like that.... the "college" i went to became a "university" a couple years after i graduated, and i still don't know what they changed other than the name).

That line in the intro still just sounds oddly wrong.

No it won't, because AI is targeting the one thing that hasn't ever been targeted before; educated humans.

The ignorance of this statement is the fact that you are not taking into account those who are incapable of learning. The human race has advanced in many ways over the last few hundred years, but mental capacity isn't really one of them. Anyone who has worked in IT long enough knows damn well that not everyone is cut out for that kind of work. Stop assuming the tens of millions of people currently employed in the kind of job that is easily replaced by automation hold the mental capacity to learn a 21st century trade. Those who make a career out of those kinds of jobs usually do so because they have to. Enrolling Little Johnny Halfwit in STEM courses is going to quickly prove pointless.

As the unemployment rate rises due to the unemployable, and our current or future (UBI) welfare programs are underfunded and unsustainable, desperation will lead to considerable increases in criminal activity. The impact is coming. Best not be so ignorant about this reality.

Neither of these jobs are fully automated yet, but they soon will be.

I'm pretty sure the oldest profession is one where at least some people will keep paying top dollar for the real thing, despite what the futurama video says

Untrue. If you consider actual strong AI (human level capable or above), which maybe takes 50 years or 200 but it is comming, all thinking jobs will be replaceable. Cheap androids to replace humans should be here just before strong AI which will completely undercut the price of all skilled and unskilled labor

Wrong, it means you have a service tech bot, such as a general purpose humanoid android, make the repair or do the job. They already have bots working in the field to do this for the elderly in Japan. But as the population of the world swings top heavy from people having less children this will spread fast.

Chatbots that designed to piss people off are almost a mature technology, you see that shit everywhere, even on slashdot. It has been a centerpiece of the "Russian meddling" that's been talked about endlessly by pissed off people.

The current IT, Tech, Engineering, and Science shortages are proof.

I've seen 2 STEM bubbles in my lifetime. Shit changes. If you were any good at predicting the future, you'd have Warren Buffett's paycheck.

For one, if they'd clean up or replace Web client UI standards with something rational, half of us would be out on the street. Web UI "standards" are the greatest job engine since war (and caused by similar mentalities).

says the AC too ashamed to use a real account?

no details, either? just a shitpost and an exit.

not even sure why we reply to AC's. and not sure why his was voted up. it was as content-free as it gets.

I live here in cali and while its not perfect, its heaven for hardware types like myself, who also do software for their day-jobs. just come visit HALTED electronics (well known in the bay area) and go show me other places that have this kind of surplus gear for sale. there are places in the US who have stores like this, but this is just one of many in the bay area (the first one that comes to mind).

the traffic is worse in the north east (where I spent a lot of my youth) and the brutal weather back east is nothing I want to see, ever again.

food is great out here, we're not all one culture, the only down-side other than house prices is the ageism in hiring. once over 40, its hard to find and keep tech jobs.

but that's the only real down-side.

AC's can shitpost all they want, but they are just showing how jealous they are, really.

Well, that actually goes with the territory. I have dealt with the same thing all over as tech expanded. Lazy useless people demanding tech do their work for them and I would advise them quite simply, if tech could do their work for them, why would the company employ them.

So poorly performing lazy FBI agents demand tech do their job for them, sit in their office whilst pretending to do great investigative work but in reality just spying on everyone, more often than not their next hopeful sexual conquest or past failure, rather than anything investigatory. Basically everyone should be telling those lazy fuckers to get out of their office and onto the streets and do real detecting, real investigation because as soon as the bads guys stop carrying phones when they do their planning, the FBI will be so out of practice, they wont be able to do anything but cry about how they need to spy on everyone.

Keeping in mind how destructive that is to preventative policing, flooding yourself with so much data you routinely ignore those who you should be investigating simply because you can not get to them in time, pursing hundreds of other people who a no threat at all instead. No criminal will ever trust tech they do not control, so what the fuck do you do then.