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baxtr ◴[] No.44065758[source]
Am I the only one who is super skeptical about “AI will take all jobs” tales?

I mean LLMs are great tools don’t get me wrong, but how do people extrapolate from LLMs to a world with no more work?

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1. surgical_fire ◴[] No.44065875[source]
> Am I the only one who is super skeptical about “AI will take all jobs” tales?

No. I am constantly baffled at these predictions. I have been using LLMs, they are fun to use and decent as code assistants. But they are very far of meaningfully replacing a human.

People extrapolate "LLMs can do some tasks better than humans" to "LLMs can do everything as well as humans"

> but how do people extrapolate from LLMs to a world with no more work?

They accept the words of bullshitters that are deeply invested in Generative AI being the next tech boom as gospel.

"Eat meat, said the butcher"

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2. johnthewise ◴[] No.44066739[source]
>But they are very far of meaningfully replacing a human

Do you think its decades away far or few more years than what people extrapolate?

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3. surgical_fire ◴[] No.44068512[source]
I can't measure in time. I think they are multiple breakthroughs away of replacing a human.