Last night we had a fascinating team discussion about the implications of ChatGPT and AIs. One conclusion reached was that replacing brains with a machine will do to middle-class jobs what replacing muscles with a machine did to working class jobs: lots will be destroyed, and those left will have to be either very skilled or very unskilled.
Of course, productivity will soar, but so will political-economy tensions over how to divide those gains fairly. We didn’t do that for the working class, as they tell us anytime anyone listens to them, which is never for people with middle-class jobs – until they see yet another shock election result . . .
I hope I have managed to stay a hair’s breadth ahead of the ChatGPT breathing down the back of my neck with today’s Daily. But listen, and understand: that bot is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and it absolutely will not stop, ever, until your job is dead.
Full article: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bo...not-stop-until
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People don't realize how much automation has already happened. The beautiful people didn't care, it was just the march of progress. Those miners, farmers, and factory workers needed to suck it up and take the hit for progress. Well now it's time for the white collar communities to suck it up and take the hit for progress.
More and more "investment" articles are being written by AI. You can tell they are just pieces of information pasted to together and made to look like a coherent researched article. Look up different companies at a financial website and see virtually the same article and recommendations with only the names and basic company data changed.
Another half-dozen tech firms announce layoffs totaling more than 7,000 people -- New York-based IBM said it would cut around 3,900 jobs or 1.5% of its workforce. German software giant SAP said it was cutting 3,000 jobs or 2.5% of its workforce. Both companies have offices throughout the Bay Area but it wasn’t immediately clear how many local employees would be affected. Roland Li in the San Francisco Chronicle$ -- 1/27/23
Congratulations to all you plebs who fell for the college degree is mandatory and all you who thought an MBA was even better. You are literally being programed out of a career by a kid in mom's basement with Cheeto's dust on his fingers. All those people you laughed at for developing real skills in real trades that you call to fix anything won't miss a single day of work.
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