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The A.I. Boom Has an Unlikely Early Winner: Wonky Consultants
- satvikpendem 2y agoWhen there's a gold rush, sell shovels (and knowledge (or rather, "knowledge", knowing consultants these days)).
- beardyw 2y agoIt was ever thus.
- portaouflop 2y agoI wanted to offer free “machine learning” consultancy to jobs that are most endangered to be replaced/affected by it. Starting probably with translators and marketing writers - my prediction is that most will use machine learning tools to speed up their work and those who fail to adopt them will be pushed out long-term. I still feel there will be a human in the loop for a long time, just accelerated with these tools.
- bamboozled 2y agoI'd imagine most translators would first start with a google translate and iterate from there anyway. I know I would if it was text.
- portaouflop 2y agoExactly but IMO you get better results with LLMs
- namaria 2y agoWhen I was still doing translations I often had to correct some 'translation' done by a jr that was clearly just passed through google translate. It was horrible and a big reason I left. That was several years ago. I have used gpt4 for translations and it works great. You can even ask for style tweaks and I barely need to change anything.
- portaouflop 2y agoYea I had a similar experience. I feel translator are mostly going to be employed for the harder translation jobs like creative writing or legal text in the near future
- bamboozled 2y agoI hire a translator not for doing the actual translating, but more so for the validation and accountability. Unless I personally can speak a language, I can't verify the GPT or whatever actually translated it properly.
- namaria 2y agoI honestly think translator is a dying profession. Reviewers will still be necessary, but LLMs are great at very nuanced translation. The whole structure is already there, it only has to map onto another language.
- Borrible 2y agoIf it's free...then it must be worthless.
- portaouflop 2y agoFair enough, but since I’m still starting out and unsure about the value of it, it would t feel right to charge at this point. If it proves to be valuable of course I’d charge otherwise it wouldn’t be sustainable
- noobermin 2y agoPeople thinking this was unlikely instead of literally who would "win" were seriously misinformed or were the very marks who were skinned.
- htrp 2y agoEvery tech trend has consultants on the forefront cashing in. Most of these companies have rebranded their existing strategic/digital transformation arms as AI transformation.
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- yamrzou 2y agohttps://archive.is/BAjal https://archive.is/BAjal
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