[A]nds..[I]fs and..Bots?

Happy Friday, everyone. How was your week. I hope it went well and, better yet, extremely productive.

Our world is changing. Technology has reined supreme over us. If you snooze, you lose. Well, don’t sleep as yet until you continue reading this post to the end.

In the news, our former president, Donald Trump, has been indicted on many charges and will be tried in court. I’m not a hater of our former president Trump as many do, but each person is entitled to be whatever they want to be or do whatever they want to do if wrongful doing is deliberately done. To make this simple. Nobody is perfect. And nobody is above the law. Every politician elect, good or bad, will go down in history and has built their legacy accordingly. Twitter has changed its name to X courtesy of its new owner, Elon Musk. Can we still say Tweet when we post or simple X. I was once an investor in former Twitter now X during Jack Dorsey’s tenue, but I cashed out long before he sold the company. Will I invest in X again. I believe not. I’ve never been a fan of social media companies from the beginning. (This is not a recommendation to invest or not to invest in the company or its sector).

As I mentioned earlier. Technology has reigned supreme over us. The talk these days is about AI that is artificial intelligence. Companies like Google, Intel, Amazon, Nvidia, and others have been working diligently to get their products and ideas up and running and to grab their stronghold on the market share of this technology. (I’m an investor in Google and Intel, and I am not endorsing either one as a company to or not to invest in or its sector). I will share my views on this AI technology and the positive and negative aspects of it.

Machines are taking over. Many years ago, I went to my usual fast food restaurant with the thoughts of ordering my craving from the usual associate. I was surprised to see that she was not available that day and never to take my order again. I had to painstakingly order from a kiosk that day forward. This was weird at first. It would have been better if I had been going in to prepare to face a machine. Look at the rise of those machines today. You will not believe that ordering food is like taking cash from an ATM.

Outsourcing was one thing. I talked to an associate in India, Jamaica, and everywhere else other than America to dispute my mobile phone bill. The automated phone assist will now take your request from paying your phone bill to see how many more gigabytes of service you have left. Bots can do this online for you. The chat bots will talk you through whatever problems you may have if you wish to speak after hours just by typing in your request. Siri can answer all your questions even if you ask the wrong ones. Google can search for your song even if you hum the tune. A chip in your refrigerator can reorder milk or whatever you wish when you’re out of it. Roomba will clean your room without you even there to guide it, and many, many more robotic ideas to come. Autonomous vehicles have not hit the mainstream as yet but are in the works in the near future. That is driverless vehicles if you don’t know what they are.

AI can disrupt the job market as we know it. It’s a human replacement that can work forever without stopping. It doesn’t require time off or get sick. It doesn’t answer back when talked to. It doesn’t require wages. AI can be an employer dream but an employee nightmare. So it may take humans to service it at times, but that is all that is needed to do. Manufacturers can rake it trillions of dollars to sell, service, and maintain these AI.

There is no way to defeat the AI being an employee. AI is a cost cutting dream to an employer to eliminate employees who are always a liability in the employment sector over all their commodities. In other words, employees are the first to go. Be AI proof. Join in being an entrepreneur and protect yourselves from the A.I. Invest more. Diversify your time and efforts to maintain a balance in your lives by building streams of income. Jobs are good for some time until cuts are necessary. Prepare for the what ifs and formulate your plan and put it into action today. It is hard to realize that you are replaced by fellow humans with lower salaries. It is much harder to realize that you are replaced by AI who doesn’t ever have mouths to feed, yet… there is no need to feed itself.

Be aware.

Thanks for reading.