Comment by gregwebs
1 day ago
> For example, benchmarks in our initial list heavily cover AI-exposed lawyers’ tasks, but barely cover any of the O*NET tasks of similarly AI-exposed legal secretaries or court clerks.
This technique seems dubious- what is stopping AI from doing the computer work of legal secretaries and court clerks as well?
Solving math problems is one of the hardest theoretical jobs. Software engineering is one of the harder practical jobs. AI is now much better at these tasks than humans because it has been able to properly train for them.
For other computer-based jobs it's a matter of AI getting properly trained for them. If a job is harder to verify or the training data is more limited, it may be much more difficult to train AI for it but I don't think there's any reason to think it won't happen eventually.
I think I agree. I'd be surprised if in a casual universe everything we perform cannot be represented by an abstract program and so should be performable by AI.
But, it may be that the performance of some roles is constrained such that the physical shape or rate and breadth of knowledge utilized isn't advantaged by the benefits of digitalized intelligence, and so would be approximately acting just human anyways. And in that case there may be enough human's available to do it just because they want to, fully fulfilling the demand for it.