• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t use it but my wife uses it for spreadsheet equations. She has to verifiy and test every answer but then so would anything written by an intern.

    So yeah, AI is killing jobs, not in an individual sense, but in aggregate like spreadsheet software did 50 years ago when before that all work was done by hand.

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        7 hours ago

        That’s just making one person do the job of more than one.

        Capitalism has been doing that long before LLM’S.

        That’s just making one person do the job of more than one.

        How do you call bs on one person doing the work that used to take two? It was one person and an intern.

        Every company had a secretary pool 60 years ago before word processors allowed people to type by themselves without an extra support person.

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          2 hours ago

          aka ‘Productivity increase’

          Productivity has increased for decades without much of it going to wage increases. Instead, it’s gone to the companies/shareholders