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by imglorp 4 days ago
> replace human workers

Plenty of charity nonprofits have no/few employees and depend on volunteers for office work. Think animal shelter, food bank, etc. Having a bot perform things like bookkeeping, volunteer coordination, etc would free up volunteers for other things. It wouldn't take many tokens.

If Anthropic wanted some serious PR karma they would include a light usage plan for five or ten years in addition to the engineer to get them started.

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None of those generally need AI systems though that benefit from an arbitrary input chat box, majority of the work is physical. I might be bias because my experience already included modern systems with machine based OCR.
> arbitrary input chat box

Agents connect to your business software. A chat box alone can't "generate the monthly report, run the payroll, and contact these new volunteers."

> ... things like bookkeeping, volunteer coordination, etc

Are they physical work? Maybe you're saying they aren't important?