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[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Can we start with him?

[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Do it. See what happens.

[-] railcar@midwest.social -1 points 2 months ago

This will be unpopular, but he's almost right. Most white collar jobs could be automated to the point where minimal human oversight is needed, with technology we've had for a decade. It hasn't happened because developing that software has been prohibitively expensive.

What has changed is the cost of developing software for the "last mile" (logistics parlance) is dropping like a stone thanks to AI. This isn't entirely about AI doing your job, but AI analyzing your job and finally using normal procedural tech to automate it. Your role may be reduced to supervision.

For jobs that need actual cognitive power, the quasi-reasoning capability of LLMs will likely supplement your work, if it's not already. It's unlikely that high stakes reasoning will ever be 100% automated, but surely that's a judgement of the responsible party or more likely the irresponsible party.

This will create social upheaval and psychological torment for many. The obvious economic disaster of massive unemployment of educated people who are used to doing highly organized functions is making some people wring their hands. Certainly there should be a plan, but capital insists a race to the bottom immediately or risk being obsolete and worthless. First movers may cash out before everyone else loses their shirt.

[-] jacksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You're not wrong that a lot of jobs end up being a lot of "busy work", but at the same time software and Ai don't exactly fill the gap as they stand today.

The issue with hardware is not only the cost to develop, but also it's fragility and inflexibility. Things can change fast in the real world and people are used to fill in the gaps.

While Ai could make software faster, it just isn't really there yet. When using Ai tools I consistently find that I'm consistently needing to lean on my experience on my field to get any significant value out of Ai, and many times it tries to lead me down dead ends.

All of that isn't even touching on the "meatspace" element of many jobs that Ai can not deal with at all.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's just the tricky bit of building all the back end systems to do it. And securing the talent and organizational ability to execute it. These are not trivial tasks

Mfers like this ceo act like you just log into copilot and it works

I agree with you though

[-] railcar@midwest.social 0 points 2 months ago

I won't get into tit for tat internet debates anymore. Everything is conjecture here, we're trying to forecast the future. That said, I was a BIG SKEPTIC until a couple of months ago. Tech changes quickly. Whatever your opinion of Ai, or any advanced tech, re evaluate it every 6 months. I manage data science projects for a living, if that's worth anything. There's way too hype, but I caution against opposite but equal hubris.

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