Asklemmy

If anyone has any idea on how to explain generative AI to someone from the 1700s, let me know. Maybe we can try explain my job then.

I make machines talk to each other so that people can talk to each other through the machines from really far away. Like, you know that brand new thing called the telegraph? Well now we call those optical telegraphs because ours are made of pieces of lightning called electricity, and I work on even better versions of that. You can talk to anyone you know instantly with the machines I work on, no matter where in the world they are.

in 1730 they invented magazines, pretty much most tech and communications jobs are based off of that

I work with a number of shops (all belonging to one family) to try to make sure that we send enough stock from the company's warehouse to them.

Yeah I'd say that's a simple one .

They probably wouldn't understand what a software engineer is. I would explain to them that we have mechanical devices that are so complex that humans have to write instructions on how it behaves. That's probably not enough, but would be enough for them to ask clarifying questions.

We're not all physicist. I coordinate the movement of goods from one county to the other.

Books

I sell drugs and drug accessories, I doubt it would be hard to explain.

I'm a math nerd at the head of a math department for a big company. Pretty sure they still stoned math nerds to death then so I'd lie.

I direct a controlled form of lightning down metal wires to power electric candles, and other amazing devices.

Someone else makes a complicated tools for teeth doctors to record what they do and helps them keep track of how much money they are owed.

I teach people to use that tool, and fix it when it breaks. Usually both because I'll try to explain how to do something and realize it's broken half way through

I'm just going to call myself an artist of new media types and end it there.

I do qa for headsets so uh... Imagine a painting that moves. Now imagine instead of seeing the world, there was a device that makes you only see those moving paintings. I make sure that device and the paintings work well together.

If anyone knows of any kind of animation technique from that era that would help with the description. But even flip books wouldn't be invented for like 150 more years so 🤷‍♀️ Maybe I could find a nice painting and give the person a bunch of mushrooms and be like "this but different"

If it's not a one line reply with a designation and a linkedin description, but a conversation over drinks, they'd get everything we explain to them. I presume it's a smart person. There are many people in today's time who won't get it in a one liner.

That's a challenge.

The job I do didn't exist when I was in high school, and most of the technology it was built on didn't exist until the early 1900s.

I suppose I could just call myself a general repairman and leave it at that.

Ambisonic is awesome man, it makes the sounds go vrooom all around you.

I am an IT Technician, I guess I would explain my job as being a scollar and a teacher.

I work for a training department for a large financial institution. I think I could explain it as teaching people how to do their job better. Though I don't actually do much teaching, personally.