I left the industry almost a decade ago, long before AI was even in its infancy in useful applications, so it clearly had nothing to do with that. Besides, I don’t need a “justification” for leaving. I wanted to leave, so I did. Pretty simple.
As far as how quickly? Breakneck speed. Just ten years ago, it was difficult to develop machine learning that could beat a human at a single kind of game. Now that’s child’s play, and machine learning that can mimic a human copyrighter is not only commercially available, it’s available for
free. Cars drive themselves on complicated city streets. Etc.
Will pilots be obsolete in 30 years? No. Will their obsolescence be well under way and many jobs already lost? Almost certainly. But it’s not just your job, it’s also mine, lawyers, doctors, etc. No one is really safe. The safest jobs will be those for skilled manual labor, because that requires complex and expensive hardwire, while most other work just requires software.
@Yakob may be an alarmist on a great many things, but he’s not wrong about this.
Teslas are statistically six times safer than other vehicles on a pro rata basis. The stats are publicly available.
