Comment by edg5000
16 hours ago
> It’s like saying calculators replaced accountants. Calculators automated arithmetic, but arithmetic was never the job. The job was understanding financials, advising clients, making judgment calls, etc. The calculator just made accountants faster at the mechanical part.
Mechanical and later electical calculators replaced human calculators. Accountants switched from having to delegate computation to owning a calculator.
Calculators never threatened to be able to approximate human above-median reason and taste though.