Comment by stevenAthompson
6 days ago
Now that the machines are coming for the white collar, the Luddites those same people once mocked are starting to look more reasonable.
In the end the intelligence revolution will be a net benefit to society. In the short term there will be untold suffering.
Let me rephrase that: The machines are coming for bullshit jobs. They're so good at generating bullshit that anyone who generates bullshit for a living needs to be worried.
Only problem is that some huge percentage of white collar work is bullshit. It's no secret. We all know it and accept it.
How many of us have spent weeks or months (or years!) of our lives generating documents that end up going into a black hole (e.g. Sharepoint), never to be read by anyone ever? How many of us have generated presentations that only exist to explain to management what they're supposed to already know? How many of us put together spreadsheets, dashboards, or similar in order to visualize data that doesn't need to be visualized?
We spend our days reading and writing emails that ultimately end up being inconsequential. We waste endless amounts of our time in meetings. Days and weeks and months go by where we "did stuff" that ultimately didn't end up being practical for any purpose.
The people that actually get things done are paid the least and looked down upon. Yet they're the ones that are most likely to survive with their jobs after this "AI revolution."
Everything is bullshit, some is just better or worse bullshit. LLMs have taken AI generated bullshit from 'laughably bad' to 'often good enough' in what, two years? Soon their bullshit will be better than yours and mine. And that's... well, that's a thing.
Yes it's a thing! Soon, they'll improve so much we'll all be saying, "Wow! Such Bullshit!"