Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Jan 15 2024 03:48 am

  Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to tenser on Tue Jan 09 2024 06:10 am

 > My son is about to graduate with a marketing communications degree. I
 > don't think AI is going to render him unemployable, I think the jobs are
 > going to change. There won't be tons of human content creators, rather a
 > handful of people who can effectively leverage AI to create content.
 > 

I don't think language models are gonna crash marketing jobs, but marketing as
a field is going to bubble quite hard. I have friends in marketing that are
already recycling themselves because they foresee a burst.

The problem with marketing is that it is getting very expensive and it is hard
for customers to capitalize the marketing they buy. Only big big brands really
get a benefit these days. Organic reach (aka growing a brand on the Internet)
has been on the decline since 2015 or so, whereas meatspace marketing is just
outright unaffordable. So many advertisers are just institutional orgs burning
tax money with no planned return of investment.

IMO it looks to me like some IT fields are also going to bubble. A lot of IT
consists on creating expectations for a product and then waiting for investors
to roll in, and build vaporware for years without actually delivering. I have
seen the first medium-sized crash at a local level in  a couple of years. It
actually makes me worried for my friends in IT.
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