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Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says

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Re: Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says

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Still waiting for the day when all of the truck drivers are put out of work and revolt as promised 5 years ago… McKinsey et al put out these BS reports every year just regurgitating the current hype with zero value add (except for lazy journalists who want an easy story to copy paste).

You know, we could save a lot on consultants if we had LLMs write the BS reports.

Re: Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says

#12

Still waiting for the day when all of the truck drivers are put out of work and revolt as promised 5 years ago… McKinsey et al put out these BS reports every year just regurgitating the current hype with zero value add (except for lazy journalists who want an easy story to copy paste).

I am still waiting for cashiers to go out of work let alone truck drivers.

Re: Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says

#15
So far it seems that AI just as likely to make stuff up as it is to provide solid reliable knowledge. As long as that remains the case AI isn't going to make much progress because there's too much to lose when you can't be sure if the knowledge is bogus or not

Re: Biggest Losers of AI Boom Are Knowledge Workers, McKinsey Says

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know what they say about the first 90% taking up 90% of the development time and the last 10% taking up 90% of the development time. That is likely what we are seeing with current AI efforts. They get amazingly close yet aren't good enough to be relied upon.

I'm guessing that you didn't mean to end up with 180% of development time, but that does seem about right when it comes to the software development projects that I've been part of. I also think you're correct that despite the impressive recent advances in AI, the remaining effort may still be enormous.

The 180% is purposeful (supposed to be humorous)! See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule

Edit: though I guess, in a sense, nobody means to put him 180% of planned effort

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