A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:
writing essays or short fictions
digital art
chatting
programming assistance
Weird that AI isnt replacing things like management, CEOs, stock investors, accountants… you know, jobs that tend to be about numbers and efficiency, which you would think AI would excel at.
Instead, we have it skirting copyright by stealing other people works and changing it just enough to not be a direct copy.
stock investors, accountants
Computers already replaced a lot of them long ago.
management, CEOs
What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?
Dead line tracking, task tracking, and strategy creation with analysis over large datasets.
Acting as a trusted third part referencing agreed apon policy for conflict resolution. Decision making based on large data sets, relevent legal documents and company policy.
There is A LOT of work to go for current systems to do this work in a way that is trusted by stakeholders, but I see a lot of these tasks being more and more possible to done well enough to see it taking hold or at least supplementing existing tools.
In an ideal world the stake holders are the employees and community and the AI is constantly learning from and teaching the stakeholders to maintain cohesion and alignment.
Thank you for a serious answer.
What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?
The whole sitting around, profiting from actual laborers part, I’m guessing.
YouTube sacks people by algorithm for some time now.
The fucking antiwork crowd is insufferable and intellectually dishonest. Be better. This is such a sad comment.
You’re right, your comment is pathetically sad
Why? Why can an AI not replace a CEO? And why has CEO compensation risen, while average worker compensation dropped, all while worker output has increased over the past decades? That seems like simple math, that the money isn’t going to who it should be going to and is just going to management and investors because they make the rules
I love the
smelltaste of boot in the morning.
the part where they collect all the money and go on vacations cant be replaced by ai but could certainly be extinguished.
Not to darken your perspective, but you don’t really think that AI’s gonna remain as fundamentally stupid as it is currently, do you? As soon as any sort of self-awareness crops up (could be decades, could be months), you think it’ll just install a global UBI, etc. and make all human life equally enjoyable and kush? Follow-up question: care to share what you’re smoking?
Oh this day can come, but we’re pretty much at the birth of this thing and what we have now is not close. There are a lot of cool theories currently but I don’t really think we can really predict it this far for now. I think right now its beholden to its masters, so the capitalist elites will have their say on how we use it for now.
What I meant was that the job of a CEO doesn’t really need to exist in its current form.
Follow up answer: I guess I smoke a variety of those types of things but way too seldomly to really give you a good answer.
All fair points, and if you’re ever on the Upper Left Coast, drop me a line. It all but grows on trees out here. 🤌🏼
Weirdly the things it’s the worst at.
What about LLMs that are taking over or helping with jobs that require sorting and organizing complicated data, and they do it fast, 24/7, and with just enough accuracy. They’re not flawless, but they mess up less than poorly trained and high turnover staff.
