Comment Going to pay the price (Score 5, Interesting) 160
There are absolutely areas of employment that we are going to have big shortages in several years down the road because of this.
My wife and I both work in Radiology, and most all hospitals are having some trouble finding radiologists to read images. The cause? About 8-10 years ago it was all over the news that AI was reading medical images and doing a better job than radiologists. That caused a non-trivial percentage of medical students to choose some other specialization, believing that AI would replace enough radiologists that they wouldn't find work.
Well, that didn't come to pass. Sure, AI is being used in some small way, mainly to flag things and bring specific areas of an image to a doctor's attention, but at this point it hasn't actually improved their workflow or the speed in which they can read images. So now we're paying the price with a shortage in radiologists.
Now apply that scenario to almost every professional career you can think of, and imagine the shortages we're going to have 8-10 years down the line when AI didn't live up to the hype in myriad careers and fields. My prediction is trade careers (construction, plumbing, electrical, etc) are going to reach an all-time high (which is actually needed, so that's a good thing) as people pick career paths that can't be touched by AI.