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by cess11 774 days ago
I'm not so sure human judgement is as comparable to medical terminology or technical manuals as you think it is.

How did you come to this conclusion?

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Maybe I wasn't that clear, but I did say in my original post:

I used to think AI would replace doctors before nurses, and lawyers before court clerks - now I think it's the other way around. The doctor, the lawyer - like the software engineer - will simply be more powerful than ever and have lower overhead. The lower-down jobs will get eaten, never the knowledge work.

Yet you and a few other people insist I'm saying "AI will replace human judgment" - why? I'm saying the doctor isn't replaced, the lawyer, the software engineer, etc. aren't replaced. It's more like the technician just got a better technical manual, not like they are replaced by it.

I did not. I pointed out that you assumed a similarity between human judgement in courts to technical documentation and medical diagnostics, and asked on what grounds you make this assumption.

It can't be that engineering and biology are so similar to jurisprudence, because they aren't. There has to be another reason for you to lump them together.

> human judgement

Again the human judgment is not replaced in either scenario, I'm talking about a tool the lawyer, the doctor, etc. would use.

Lawyer and doctor are often listed as comparable examples because both involve sensitive info you can't afford to get wrong, unlike creative use cases for AI like image or song generation.

Not sure why you keep bringing that up instead of answering my question.

Lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time.

> Lawyer and doctor are often listed as comparable examples because both involve sensitive info

Doesn't it answer it?

> Lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time

This is a tool that helps them get it right

No, it does not.

Why do you think technical documentation and medical diagnosis is similar to what judges in courts are doing?

OK, so why do lawyers and doctors get it wrong all the time then, if it does?