I have a number of librarian acquaintances who seem to cope with the gradual disappearance/destruction of their careers by telling themselves "one day, they'll get sick of current state, and they'll be back". I hope it's true.
i hope so too, i have a $25k degree in MLIS that promised me a fruitful career. now i teach arts & crafts too Wall Street fuck kids.
all that aside, i taught myself to program, because i could read the writing on the wall in that career. that was a wash too. now i have to compete with AI?! one day? i'm done. i'd rather commit suicide than have to keep chasing a nowhere goal.
I think implicit in the hope is that maybe not everything should be delt with via 'algorithm', and perhaps there's a place left in this brave new automated world for actual people helping people.
i have an idea for that, but i think things like GPT will thwart it. machine learning is great, but it's not connected to human understanding. that is what librarians did was take non-human information and bridge it with a shortcut to human understanding on a broad basis. software can manage the information really well, but no one has designed a thing that bridges genuine human "knowing" with machine "knowing".
all that aside, i taught myself to program, because i could read the writing on the wall in that career. that was a wash too. now i have to compete with AI?! one day? i'm done. i'd rather commit suicide than have to keep chasing a nowhere goal.