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What is so interesting to me about generative AI is that the jobs that are the most difficult to automate are trades like plumbers and electricians. The group t
by whyenot 4y ago
What is so interesting to me about generative AI is that the jobs that are the most difficult to automate are trades like plumbers and electricians. The group that is the most vulnerable is knowledge workers. It’s a lot easier to replace a person with AI when much of what they do is virtual — on a computer screen. Trade jobs are often looked down on by the privileged class who went to some costly and exclusive college. Will that change? There is a lot of experience and training needed to do a trade job well. In fact (having done both), I think in many cases they need more training that a job in tech requiring a college degree. This is going to be really disruptive and I’m very curious to see how it all plays out.
- machinekob 4y agoHow much plumbers will we need in a future? I'm pretty sure that it'll end with oversupply on traders (especially in stagnant economy) if AI will cut most of the knowledge workers the world will have to move into some sort of utopia/dystopia and people will just don't have to work at all or it will be 0.1% vs 99.9% scenario but with brainwashed people cause of social media and maybe AI censorship. But its worst case scenario in my mind AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster.
- sublinear 4y ago> AI will make jobs just more specialised and output of knowledge worker a lot faster. If the user is skilled enough at prompt engineering to get good answers (i.e. code that compiles and does what they want) the answers can still be objectively worse than search results for stackoverflow or github in many cases. Seems like the current state of chat bots is that it's slower than either making a regular search or simply just knowing what to write in the first place. Shouldn't be a surprise, but a mid to senior engineer doesn't spend their whole day googling stuff to copy and paste. They read the docs for about 5 minutes and then get things done in the precious couple of hours they have between meetings. I don't think it gets much faster than that. I sincerely doubt the nontechnical people in the meetings would get a good enough answer from ChatGPT that fast and they certainly wouldn't want to slam their head against a wall learning everything the dev already knows, no less in a higher level and imprecise "natural" language.