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by smithcoin 1183 days ago
> In contrast to AI’s many benefits is the fact that it will displace millions of people around the world from their current workplace roles, especially those in white-collar jobs such as customer service, copywriting, and computer programming. It has already started to do so.

Citation needed.
2 comments
macintux 1183 days ago
Which part?

This was 3 years ago. The tools are much better now.

Microsoft 'to replace journalists with robots': https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52860247

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Jeff_Brown 1183 days ago
The claim might be true but this evidence does not establish it. A company having planned to replace a kind of job with AI is quite distinct from the number of that kind of job falling as a result of AI.
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macintux 1183 days ago
I agree, millions is entirely unknowable right now, but there were two distinct statements and you didn’t say which you wanted a citation for, so I supplied a citation for the verifiable statement and asked which you were challenging.
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Jeff_Brown 1179 days ago
That wasn't me, but understood.
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MacsHeadroom 1183 days ago
GPT-4 has increased my work output just over 10-fold. That is 9 jobs which will not exist because of GPT-4.
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ChatGTP 1183 days ago
...or more things will be made, more demand equals more people copy and pasting from ChatGPT-4 just like you?

The only way what you're saying is true if there is a limit to the amount of new opportunities everyone being so productive will create. There's nothing to suggest there is.

I often feel depressed about how hard it is to make products better, if this tool enables that to happen, guess what I'll be doing? Building more products.

Also, many developed countries such as Japan, South Korea etc were almost facing economic collapse due to not having enough workers, so they basically "need" these tools to survive in the future.

Maybe we're going to see a world with less people, and an abundance of awesome shit?

For getting shipping minimum viable product and say hello to shipping maximum awesome product?

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meghan_rain 1183 days ago
Can you elaborate? Also, how is GPT4 different for your usecase compared to GPT3.5?
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