How to beat AI - for dummies. Hint: learn a craft

Hint: learn a craft

Back to the future? Photo by Nicolas Hoizey on Unsplash

How to maintain gainful employment as robots take control? With ChatGPT turning out stuff with alarming speed and ease, writers of limericks, doggerel (and blogs) should see the message on that ugly brick wall right in front of them.

Now, it seems may be the time to retrain.

Apparently, there are a multitude of occupations that will stay in demand despite the rise of clever clogs like ChatGPT and other AI geniuses.

Artisanal trades, for instance. Over on Bloomberg, Rachel Sanderson has a really smart argument (paywall) for a return to skilling up old-style.

In a piece inspired by the passing last November in Naples of Cesare Attolini, “the great master tailor of the soft-shouldered suit,” Ms Sanderson discerns a surge in demand for ancient artisanal trades including lacemaking, leatherworking, weaving and tailoring. Her piece, headlined ‘AI is cool but can it tailor a $50,000 suit?’ notes that “Two decades of industrialization of luxu…