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by ericmcer 45 days ago
That's enterprise tech also?

I wonder what adoption is like at older non-tech companies.

The office next to mine is being used to teach a bunch of 20-30 year olds how to be insurance brokers using a powerpoint presentation. Copy paste the presentation into an LLM and you just replaced them all. It feels like... things might be kind of dark in 10-20 years if we just keep barreling down this road.
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pards 45 days ago
It's scary. Our society is not set up to deal with mass unemployment.
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QuercusMax 45 days ago
A lot of Bullshit Jobs[1] are going to be replaced by AI - it's not clear whether these "brokers" who can be trained with a powerpoint presentation are actually doing anything useful for society or even for the economy.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

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ericmcer 45 days ago
Yeah but I mean...

My dog gets excited and barks to let me know whenever someone is at the door. It might crush his spirit if he knew he is just a useless pet and his contribution is meaningless.

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badc0ffee 45 days ago
If nothing else, it signals to people approaching your door that there is a dog they may not want to have to deal with.
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