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The real problem is with lower skilled positions. Either people in easier roles or more junior people. We will end up with a significant percent of the populati
by giantg2 2y ago
The real problem is with lower skilled positions. Either people in easier roles or more junior people. We will end up with a significant percent of the population who are unemployable because we lack positions commensurate with their skills.
- hwillis 2y agoLower skilled than office clerks and customer service representatives? Because they were in the study.
- giantg2 2y agoYep, I'm talking about non-office jobs, such as in warehouses and retail. Why do you need sales associates when you can just ask an AI associate that knows everything. But, the study is also about LLMs currently impacting wages and hours. We're still in the process of creating targeted models for many domains. It's entirely possible the customer representatives and clerks will start to be replaced in part by AI tools. It also seems that the current increase in work could mean that headcount is kept flat, which is great for a business, but bad for employment.
- chii 2y agoand we used to have people who were illiterate and yet, today we have almost everybody literate. I think skills in using ai to augment work will become just a new form of literacy.
- giantg2 2y agoApproximately 1 in 5 adults in the US are illiterate currently. I wouldn't call that "almost everybody".
- ausbah 2y agothere’s was some podcast ezra klein had a couple months ago, but a point his guest made about education that sticks with me is the next generation of students that will be successful are the ones that can use AI as a tool not as a dependency - outcomes which may largely depend on how the education system changes with the times. i wonder there very well