• ozmot@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    23
    ·
    3 months ago

    Even mindless and repetitive tasks require instances of problem solving far beyond what a.i is capable of. In order to replace 41% of the work force you’ll need a.g.i and we don’t know if thats even possible.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      3 months ago

      Let’s also not forget that execs are horrible at estimating work.

      “Oh this’ll just be a copy paste job right?” No you idiot this is a completely different system and because of xyz we can’t just copy everything we did on a different project.

      • rottingleaf@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        Or salesmen. “Oh, you have that another system to integrate with? No, no change in estimates, everything is OK.”

        Then they have a deal concluded etc, and then suddenly that information reaches the people who’ll be actually doing it.

    • msage@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      3 months ago

      It was 41% of execs saying workforce will be replaced, not 41% of workforce will be replaced

    • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      3 months ago

      Its not replacing people outright its meaning each person is capable of doing more work each thus we only need 41% the people to achieve the same task. It will crash the job market. Global productivity and production will improve then ai will be updated repeat. Its just a matter of if we can scale industry to match the total production capacity of people with ai assistance fast enough to keep up. Both these things are currently exponential but the lag may cause a huge unemployment crisis in the meantime.

      • localme@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 months ago

        In this potential scenario, instead of axing 41% of people from the workforce, we should all get 41% of our lives back. Productivity and pay stay the same while the benefits go to the people instead of the corporations for a change. I know that’s not how it ever works, but we can keep pushing the discussion in that direction.

    • richmondez@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      3 months ago

      We are walking talking general intelligence so we know it’s possible for them to exist, the question is more if we can implement one using existing computational technology.