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by crabsand
686 days ago
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If you're working with text and you have some regularities in your workflow, you can gain some productivity points from current technology. In time most industries will have these regularities, similar to workflow improvements after the introduction of computer. But I also doubt if it will have that much effect. In general we have diminishing returns from these kind of technology, telegraph's effect on the world was larger than the computer, computers were more valuable than WWW and search engines have smaller effect than WWW. AI may be big, but could it be bigger than search or e-commerce? I doubt it. |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
If computers really had little impact on productivity then things like the Cloudstrike outage would be barely noticed, instead of causing instant mass disruption worldwide due to sudden productivity loss. It would also imply that everyone, everywhere, in every industry, is an idiot who adopted computers despite not getting much return. That isn't plausible, so it's more likely that there's a problem with data.
In particular, note that productivity growth of 1% is compounding. Each year you need bigger and bigger upgrades to sustain that 1% growth.