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[โ€“] visak 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah they got the "will take out jobs part" just not the "will take our jobs and be worse at it and companies will still prefer it".

I was around in the 80s when we were losing all the manufacturing jobs, mostly to outsourcing but they blamed automation, and they said "don't worry there will be lots of good paying jobs in the new service economy!". Guess what they outsourced those too and now they'll automate them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It will be interesting how it plays out. For some jobs, mainly stuff that wasn't important but needed doing anyway (e.g. writing product listing on Amazon), this will be fatal. These jobs aren't coming back.

But for more skilled jobs, it will be interesting how they will deal with it when AI will mess up important stuff every single time.

On the other hand, managers have been doing the same consistently for a much longer time and they still exist. Let's see what happens.