Artificial Intelligence

Do what you love and you will never work a day in your life.  Differentiate yourself and you will become irreplaceable.  All throughout my life, especially high school and college, I have heard those words.  Yet, between the time I started college and will graduate, those two sentences may be obsolete.  I may have to work harder than ever to prove my worth to the company.

Artificial Intelligence, AI, may be replacing my career.  We have seen self driving cars, delivery drones, and robots in manufacturing plants, but what about the jobs that require analytics or review?  Those could be gone as more and more companies move forward with automated software.  Understandably, what company would want to pay a whole department full of employees over a computer system that doesn't get sick, need time off, or require benefits?  I completely understand how these system make a company more efficient, but what about the personal aspects to a job?  I think that they only way that AI could make companies more efficient is if everything were automated.  Can these robots and automated systems truly account for human error?  If I got to an AI doctor, will it really understand what it wrong with me?  If an AI system creates a marketing campaign, will it truly understand how the campaign will make other people feel?  

It may be silly, but after reading many articles about AI, it almost seems like a pipe dream to find a career in a field I intended to enter when I graduate college.  I'd like to hang onto that pipe dream a little longer.  I do not think that AI will be avoidable, I would just like to see what trends the marketing industry pursues and then up the ante on my end.

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