[vba616]

>It could and probably will replace my job

People tell stories about employees at big companies whose entire job is to send a small report to someone once a week.

Even in cases like that, it's illogical to fear AI, because if it really was so simple to automate, it would've been done already.

Either the storytellers are clueless about the true nature of the job, or else there are defenses against redundancy that aren't obvious.

[tstrimple]

> Even in cases like that, it's illogical to fear AI, because if it really was so simple to automate, it would've been done already.

This hasn't been my experience. There is a TON of low hanging fruit for automating workloads which exist in almost every large company. While not all automations are easy, there's no shortage of easy work in automation. Almost every financial organization I've worked at has had some amount of manual processing of overnight batch jobs.

[vba616]

>This hasn't been my experience.

What you mean by "experience" is unclear to me.

I agree with you insofar as everyone with even a little experience at a large company knows there are a lot of apparently low hanging fruit possibilities for automation.

But do you mean you have seen things that seem simple to automate, or have you tried to do so and found out what happens?

There is a lot going on below the surface.

[tstrimple]

Yes, plenty are absolutely trivial to implement. Things like "I move the file from this folder where it's dropped off by over night batch processing to this other folder and then I kick off the processing job" or "I copy these values into our master excel spreadsheet and take the results from the calculations and put them in this other system."

Extremely basic and low hanging fruit is all over the place.

[vba616]

>Yes, plenty are absolutely trivial to implement.

The most technically trivial change has a litany of obstacles involving people.

Off the top of my head:

1) Finding out a process exists

2) Finding out who knows about a process

3) Being able to communicate with such a person

4) Motivating them or other stakeholders to make a change

5) Making the new process independent of specific employees