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by nomad-nigiri 726 days ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective, it’s broadened my own. I’m pro-ai, I believe in the potential. I was asking if GPTs or image generators have replaced human jobs yet. The loss of jobs seems like an over reaction. I personally think like all major tech breakthroughs it will create industries/markets not previously possible.
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Like any other tech, this will replace some jobs. The question is if it will generate more jobs than it replaces. And my take is that no, intellectual work is finished. In a few years any job that has information as an output will be doable by machines. Tech so far has always freed people from manual work and forced them to climb up the ladder of education and intellectual and creative work, where machines had no reach. Now we are perched at the very top of the ladder and machines are climbing the last steps. There's nowhere else to go in that direction. The kinds of work that will be spared are those that require embodiment and physical interaction.