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I expect this theme to continue and expand across many "jobs". There are a lot of people who are just plugging numbers into spreadsheets all day and you would t

I expect this theme to continue and expand across many "jobs". There are a lot of people who are just plugging numbers into spreadsheets all day and you would think "yes but when something doesn't fit they have to be smart and use human intelligence to fix the problem" However if you see what happens in practice all they do is send an e-mail to someone else saying there is a problem. ChatGTP can do that part. You don't need many of these pencil pushers

mattbrewsbytes 4y ago
The irony is these types of jobs are usually in companies that aren't going to spend any money to invest in the back office tools/processes their employees use on a daily basis. Any AI/ML tooling is so far away from that type of company that those jobs might be safer than others.
- Tarsul 4y ago
  not if (rather when) Microsoft includes its AI into MS Office. And I've read somewhere that that's exactly what they are planning.
  - paleotrope 4y ago
    That will last until Microsoft realizes it cannibalizes Office licenses.
- darkerside 4y ago
  These are probably the same companies that tried and failed to outsource labor to other countries. We'll see if this goes any better.
andai 4y ago
A friend of mine started working for a company a while back. He met a woman there whose job involved some very tedious tasks, manually typing things from one software into another. Thinking he'd do her a favour, he wrote a python script to automate it, so she could spend more time on the less tedious parts of her job. Turns out there weren't any. He had automated her entire job in 15 minutes.