Human intelligence is still going to be valuable. Just because an automation tool exists, doesn't mean two different people will get the same results from it. Solidworks is a powerful automation tool, and put a lot of draftsmen out of work, but someone with a degree in mechanical engineering is going to get very different results using this tool, compared to a random person off the street.

And the real world is still unpredictable - just look at anything in biotech. There is literally no way in many cases to "compute" an outcome correctly, without doing the actual experiments. It's not just a matter of intelligence - many biological processes are simply unknown. That's also what will keep skilled blue collar workers employed for the foreseeable future - many if not most job sites are unpredictable.

So some jobs will continue to be lost to automation, but the smart kids of today who learn to use the new AI tools will be in a good position to prosper, I think. But they will still have to have domain skills to use the tools effectively.

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