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Software engineering for sure. Lots of SV types have a very distorted view of what the average programmer not in a high prestige silicon valley company does. Es
by vikramkr 3y ago
Software engineering for sure. Lots of SV types have a very distorted view of what the average programmer not in a high prestige silicon valley company does. Especially contractors and outsourcing firms and the like? Yeah not great for them. Also analyst type roles and data science type roles, since the level of reasoning plus the ability to parse structured data and write code is pretty much there. Medical scribes are already being automated, voice to text plus context aware parsing. I also think areas of law like patent law (writing provisionals etc) are probably in a situation where the tech is already better than humans at writing claims that are not going to conflict with prior art and the like, though there'll be legal barriers there to adoption. But a lot of the legal staff involved might be replaced even if the lawyers and agents are not. Anyone who writes review papers/research summaries like market reports without actively doing non-internet research like interviewing people are going to struggle against AI written reviews that can just pull from more information than humanly possible to parse. Accounting, preparing financial statements, etc where "creativity" is not necessary a good thing also, though again regulations might stop that. And obviously in healthcare, doctors like radiologists and surgeons etc which we've been talking about as a possibility for a long time but looks more possible than ever now.
Also there's areas where it's quickly becoming a required skill set, so it's not that it's replacing people but that the people there are getting their skills obsoleted. All the molecular biologists I know that used to joke about how they picked biology since they suck with computers and hate excel are at a high risk of getting left behind right now, especially with how steep the improvement's been with protein design models like RFDiffusion. Though by latest rumors it looks like the vast vast majority of biologists involved in protein work have already started using tools like alphafold and esmfold so it does look like people are adapting.