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I think this is going to rhyme with history. TL;DR - It'll be a good thing When the printing press removed the manual tedium from producing a book, and reduced
by mikewarot 4y ago
I think this is going to rhyme with history. TL;DR - It'll be a good thing
When the printing press removed the manual tedium from producing a book, and reduced the cost by orders of magnitude. Literacy went up, and science and the arts flourished. Instead of manually copying texts, authors could write for millions.
When the Thread Cutting Lathe made it possible to make screws accurately and cheaply enough to standardize, the use of them went up, and the industrial revolution happened. Instead of making a screw in a day, a machinist could make thousands.
Once it became possible to store data automatically, the need for file clerks and others manually managing data went down. The management of information by computer made all manner of new business possible. Real time management of inventory and booking of reservations because possible on a vast scale.
GPT and other AI based tools will change the nature of our jobs, but we'll all have new things to do. It'll be less tedious, and a bit more creative, as it always tended to be before.