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Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by threethirtytwo »

Metricon wrote: post #8

I have been writing software for over 40 years and have had a long time interest in and some work in AI over that time. I wouldn’t say this gives me any more prognosticating power about how all of this is ultimately going to go, but I believe we're soon nearing an area of plateauing; whether that's because the science itself is plateauing or the intervention of governments is going to force plateau it. So if things c…

This is like the most idealized future.

I think many people will wish it was like this. But when AI becomes so capable that a nobody who doesn't understands computers a well as a "doctor" uses AI to create something BETTER or superior or just as good then employers will think... why am I paying that "doctor" more than that nobody?

See right now everything is fine, because AI is not that good yet. But if it gets better. Well. The future will be one where we trust AI more and more.

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by threethirtytwo »

somenameforme wrote: post #72
Metricon wrote: post #8

I have been writing software for over 40 years and have had a long time interest in and some work in AI over that time. I wouldn’t say this gives me any more prognosticating power about how all of this is ultimately going to go, but I believe we're soon nearing an area of plateauing; whether that's because the science itself is plateauing or the intervention of governments is going to force plateau it. So if things c…

If LLMs reach a point of sufficiently high competence to the point that they're capable of producing usable software from vague, and sometimes contradictory instructions - the same software engineers have to regularly deal with, then at that point software will simply be an expectation of ability in any job. So I think it would be more comparable to something like literacy. There was a time when that was a fairly unc…

Right making apps and building infrastructure and scaling and making software will become like reading. Everyone and anyone can do it.

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by threethirtytwo »

burningChrome wrote: post #15

The other issue is Gen Z and Gen A are now very much opposed to AI. I'm wondering with those two sets of generations who already have a very negative view of AI, how AI can survive that coming tsunami of change. According to WRITER’s 2026 Enterprise Adoption Survey, 44% of Gen Z employees admit to sabotaging their company's AI strategy in at least one way compared to 29% of employees overall. Sabotage behaviours incl…

The utility of AI is too high for the opposition to be real. It's like money or heroin. Someone who says money is the root of all evil will likely take a billion dollars if offered if for free.

Everybody says they hate heroin but once you try it, you can't get enough of it.

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by alternatex »

red75prime wrote: post #50
mminer237 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've been able to Google your symptoms and get a maybe answer for twenty years. I don't see how AI replaces doctors any more than WebMD did.

By achieving the same or a higher level of effectiveness than doctors, obviously.

Nothing effective about self-diagnosis. Quick and easy yes, but not effective. Most things that are worth diagnosing require a visit to a clinic. No doctor is going to lose a job because people are self-diagnosing using the internet.

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by pferde »

goatlover wrote: post #53
esafak wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would the government force the technology to plateau when the Chinese won't? Outdoing the Chinese is the Trump admin's biggest hobby.

Could have sworn it was trying to convince Iran to accept a peace plan after killing their former leaders who would have committed to one.

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Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by pilgrim0 »

WillAdams wrote: post #40
franze wrote: post #7

Question: Does anybody here yet personally has less (to) work 'cause of AI?

Maybe? But it's at my day job, and it's because I was able to write a prompt which automates having Copilot review uploaded scanned PDFs of invoices with checks (and the bank line obscured with a pen, so no PII) and then write a batch file which renames the files per a file-naming convention, removing the need to open them in batches of 50, find the Invoice ID, re-save using that filename, then quit and re-launch Ado…

Extracting structured data from PDFs is something people have been doing forever, way before LLMs, there are state of the art OCR tools out there you can use as a lib, it’s hardly something that justify using a LLM

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by plastic-enjoyer »

AuthAuth wrote: post #65
zkmon wrote: post #59

You need to first address 1)What is work? 2)Why we need to work? Animals don't "work". Not atleast for their own sake. If there is enough green pasture and water around, they don't even migrate to other places. So if work is meant to provide food and shelter and if machines can ensure that, humans don't need to "work". Wealth is only a reserve capacity to help future generations so that they don't need to work for th…

There exists to many complex things in the world and we cannot do it all ourselves. We work so that we have something of value to trade to the people who do the work on the things we want. We will never automate all work so we with half of humanity doing nothing of value it will be a struggle for the people who do nothing of value to convince people to do work for them. We can see it now where products dont target th…

What if there is simply not enough work to provide value for the people that do the work on things we want?

Re: What will be left for us to work on?

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Post by bojan »

singingtoday wrote: post #30
neitherboosh wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Gen Z and Gen A are now very much opposed to AI This is true as a sentiment, but my understanding is that the majority of students are overwhelmingly using AI for ~everything. If a thing provides massive utility people will use it.

I recently sat in on a lecture at my old uni and noticed almost every student heavily using ai. So I agree it's a but heavy handed to day young people dislike ai as a monolith.

> I recently sat in on a lecture at my old uni and noticed almost every student heavily using ai.

But are they also paying for it? Or simply using the free version because it's available?

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