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Post by spinno on Dec 8, 2023 18:20:19 GMT
Jensen Huang boss of Nvidia on AI:- "I have every confidence that between all of our colleagues around the world, we will invent technologies, philosophies, methodologies, practices, monitors, regulations, design practices, to keep technology safe," founder, President and CEO of Nvidia Jensen Huang told the BBC at a roundtable interview on Wednesday." Douche bag. Yer, like millions of video cards mining Bit Coin is good for the environment and how it takes eight times the processing to run a typical Ai task than a non Ai task, thank you Jensen.  It's merely precautionary...they're just training and warming up at the moment... |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 8, 2023 23:27:24 GMT
One might, at first glance, consider a street cleaner “unskilled” until one recognises that they have to be trained to operate equipment and do so effectively and efficiently. Friend of mine is a gardener for a local council his job is defined as "unskilled" but he has to know things like handling dangerous chemicals, types of plants and when and where to plan them etc I used to work in academic bookselling and got quite sick of people saying "But you're clever you should get a skilled job in an office" At the time I was managing 17 staff including interviewing, training and sadly on a couple of occasions dismissing them, handling an average stock turnover of £5.3 million (in 1985), presenting reports of the board of directors, designing window displays, reconciling daily tills, redesigning shop layouts, writing copy for promotional materials, dealing with stock control for around 900 titles and all the other sundry jobs that came up When I did end up in an office job I was rather surprised at how little skill you needed! |
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Post by lesleysm2 on Dec 8, 2023 23:31:29 GMT
It could be full, but there isn't the staff to deal with that number. They simply can't recruit enough. Or they can't recruit the staff with the right skills. I have just worked in a children's hospice and many a time we had to turn down requests for a stay not because we didn't have space but because we didn't have the skill mix to safely cover a child's needs |
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Post by Chester PB on Dec 11, 2023 12:49:49 GMT
It could be full, but there isn't the staff to deal with that number. They simply can't recruit enough. Or they can't recruit the staff with the right skills. I have just worked in a children's hospice and many a time we had to turn down requests for a stay not because we didn't have space but because we didn't have the skill mix to safely cover a child's needs There is also the endemic short term thinking of many employers: they will not spend time or money training a suitable candidate who has all the requisite abilities and a willingness to learn, preferring to poach somebody already 'skilled' from another employer who probably has the same attitude to training.
I can recall when working it IT in the 1980s advertisements for people with very specific skills relating to systems that had only been in use for 2 or 3 years, and asking for at least 5 years experience with those systems. There was even a spoof advertisement in one of the 'professional' IT magazines, something like this - 'Must be under 25 (so not too expensive) with 10 years experience of the latest XYZ computer hardware and its all-new operating system.' The advertisement was, of course, full of meaningless terms like 'dynamic' and 'thrusting'.
Personally, I had always had most respect for people in necessary jobs (so not footballers, etc.) that I could not, or would not want, to do myself. Medical workers, school teachers, care home workers, and many jobs commonly described as 'menial' meet this criterion. In a perfect world my tax contribution would be used to employ them. |
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Post by JohnY on Dec 11, 2023 22:11:25 GMT
School teaching menial? No way. I am a graduate with postgrad teaching qualification but wasn't much good at the job. It isn't easy. Later I made a decent career in technical IT.
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