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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9698884" data-attributes="member: 42856">At some point in the future, maybe, we can rely entirely on automated systems to replace jobs completely. This utopia isn't what we get today, unfortunately. Today, at best, AI is able to be integrated into production workflow to increase productivity. It can write a speech for you, but if you're unable to write a speech yourself, you'll probably just make... an AI speech. If you're good at writing speeches, you can use it to do it in less time than doing it from scratch, or proofread it, or as AI if it notices any consistency problem you might have overlooked.In the example you gave about your student, unskilled users are penalized because they can't find the faults. They are penalized for misusing the tool -- some might say it's a good thing as it teaches them not to rely on tools they don't understand and listen to their professors. The fact that he was overconfident might be a sign of his young age and he though he knew better than you.Among more adult students, the "what is the point of you" question is more striking. If your whole job can be done by an AI, then you'd better not be defined by your ability to do a specific job. Which, fortunately, most of us aren't.When/If it reaches the job replacement stage, we'll need to collectively think a lot on how we share wealth in our societies. But this is quite down the road -- even if such things are better dealt before the fact than after. While the extremes of the 19th century's industrialization led to a century of improvement of quality of life for workers, it didn't happen without a few bloody conflict that could have been avoided. But, as I said, we aren't there yet. What have we right now? We're just seeing another new tool which will change how we do things. For some jobs, it might be a big change (as much as industrial clothing all but replaced tailored clothing), for some it might be challenging (teaching maths adapted to pocket calculator becoming widespread and formerly-supercomputer-level) and need some evolution in the way things are done, for other it might just be a new tool that increase productivity if used correctly and for a few it will simply have no effect. It is getting the spotlight because it's new, that's why we got the initial article: I guess there would have been no article published if Husband's attorney had said "OK, the cases are made up because I asked an intern to do the job, and he was unhappy because I commented he shouldn't smoke weed in the office, and I didn't bother to proofread the result".But it's not different than any other technological development.</blockquote>

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