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Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by ednite »

paul7986 wrote: post #174
tines wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would agree with you, but the people making the decision to fire or keep you don’t care about quality, nor do they care about understanding AI or its limitations. If AI mostly does kinda the right thing 70% of the time but saves the company $80k a year, that’s a no-brainer. We’re being Pollyanna-ish to think that anyone cares about the things we care about, that you mention in your post. If firing you saves $1.50 a…

Indeed and as a UX Researcher, Designer and Front-End Dev chatGPT Plus does same level of design and front-end development I do. It takes me hours vs. chatGPT Plus five minutes or less to come up with professional logos, web app or website design around the logo and then spits out the front-end code. Once I saw that in late Fall of this year I was like yup there it is .. it can do a good portions/parts of my job. So…

Great example, and to be honest, I’m guilty of the same. I used ChatGPT to come up with a logo for one of my projects, and it only took about five minutes. The kicker? The designer I would’ve usually handed it to actually approved it and liked it.

It kind of stings, though. That used to be someone’s craft, their livelihood. But like you said, the key now is finding ways to adapt, maybe by leaning more into the human side of the work: real collaboration, client interaction, deeper research.

Still, not everyone can or wants to adapt. What happens to the quiet designer who just wants to spend the day in their bubble, listening to music and creating? Not chasing clients, not pivoting constantly, just doing what they love. That’s the part that saddens me at times when I see AI in action. Thanks for sharing.

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by qgin »

eranation wrote: post #16

My personal thoughts on this are - A good lawyer + AI will likely win in court against a non lawyer with AI who would likely win in court against just an AI - A good software engineer + AI will ship features faster / safer vs a non engineer with AI, who will beat just AI - A good doctor + AI will save more lives than a non doctor + AI, who will perform better than just AI As long as a human has a marginal boost to AI…

When it's been studied so far, AI alone does better than AI + human doctor

>Surprisingly, in many cases, A.I. systems working independently performed better than when combined with physician input. This pattern emerged consistently across different medical tasks, from chest X-ray and mammography interpretation to clinical decision-making.

https://erictopol.substack.com/p/when-doctors-with-ai-are-ou...

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

"Over the weekend I went digging for evidence that AI can, will, or has replaced a large percentage of jobs."

Perhaps the author is curious whether "AI" will replace "SEO jobs", or "web marketing" jobs

If "AI"-generated answers are replacing www search, and even visits to other websites, then perhaps to some extent "AI" will reduce the number of "SEO" or "web marketing" jobs

https://searchengineland.com/seo-opportunity-shrinking-rand-...

The author is a "web marketer" accusing "Tech Execs" of doing web marketing

Marketers trying to discredit other marketers

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by sumeno »

kunzhi wrote: post #195
sumeno wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And eventually they learn the lesson that many companies learned in the early 00s with offshoring. You get what you pay for

I don't think any of those companies learned a lesson.

Sure they did, or at least the ones who survived did. Offshoring went from the thing that was going to kill the US Software Engineering industry to a fairly minor portion of it with US based engineers being even more in demand than they were before

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

Ozarkian wrote: post #188
lenerdenator wrote: post #24

It's also a great example of why tech executives shouldn't be trusted, at all. "My thing will break our entire economy. I'm still gonna build it, though." - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

You can't constrain an idea whose time has come. China will continue developing AI regardless of whether we will. We have to do it just to stay in the race. It's the same thing with the atomic bomb. There wasn't really a choice not to do it. All the theoretical physicists at the time knew that it was possible to develop the thing. If the United States hadn't done it, someone else would have. Perhaps a few years or a…

> It's the same thing with the atomic bomb. There wasn't really a choice not to do it.

There is always a choice. "Someone else will do this if I don't" does not absolve one from moral responsibility. Even if it is inevitable (which things generally are not, claiming they are is a rationalization most of the time), you still are culpable if you're the one who pulls the trigger.

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy »

keiferski wrote: post #8
ArtTimeInvestor wrote: post #2

What could stop AI from doing all jobs?

At some point, it will be expected that people creating content (writing/video/etc.) use a human validation service to prove that they aren’t AI. Anyone that doesn’t use this (and presumably uses AI) will be deranked from YouTube and social media.

Why?

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by tzs »

>> The automation of farm work is the most notable and most labor-impacting example we have from history, rapidly unemploying a huge portion of human beings in the developing economies of the late 19th and 20th centuries. And yet, at the conclusion of this era (~1940s/50s), the conclusion was that “technological unemployment is a myth,” because “technology has created so many new industries” and has expanded the market by “lowering the cost of production to make a price within reach of large masses of purchasers.” In short, technological advances had created more jobs overall

From the late 19th century to the 1940s/50s is 50 years. It's not really reassuring to middle aged workers who lose their jobs to new technology that 50 years later there will overall be more jobs available.

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by sumeno »

monknomo wrote: post #131
bluefirebrand wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution to doctors arguing with insurance isn't "have an AI do it" it's universal health care so doctors don't need to worry about insurance in the slightest I worked on software for electronic medical record note taking and I'm not sure how an LLM can help a doctor speed that up tbh. All of the stats need to be typed into the computer regardless. The LLM can't really speed that up?

I have no expertise and am prepared to be quite wrong, but I wonder if llm's would be good at listening to a session, and/or a doctor dictating, and putting the right stats in the right place, and the dictated case history into a note. I think llm's are alright at speech recognition and that sort of unstructured to structured text manipulation. At least, in my corner of the customer success world I've seen some uses…

My doctor was in a pilot program for this exact thing. It recorded our conversation and created the after visit summary.

It's summary was that I wasn't taking my antibiotics (I was, neither I nor my doctor said anything to the contrary). Luckily my doctor was very skeptical of the whole thing and carefully reviewed the notes, but this could be an absolute disaster if it hallucinates something more nefarious and the doctor isn't diligent about reviewing

Re: "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing

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Post by rvz »

naijaboiler wrote: post #94
rvz wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The enitre point is less knowledge worker jobs will be needed. Not more.

Wrong. More knowledge workers will be needed. The nature of what they do will change

> The nature of what they do will change

Exactly. Less of them will be needed given that a few of them will be more productive with AI vs without it. That is the change which is happening right now.

So this is actually cope.

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