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Ok_Homework9290 t1_j66ieo4 wrote
Reply to comment by genshiryoku in ⭕ What People Are Missing About Microsoft’s $10B Investment In OpenAI by LesleyFair
>It will be companies that have lots of intellectual workers that can quickly scale up with AI providing intellectual labor.
>I actually expect law firms, medical field, schooling platforms and other almost purely intellectual firms to benefit the most from an economic windfall perspective.
I agree that AI will benefit those firms that you mentioned, but I don't think that that benefit will come at the expense of widespread automation at those organizations (IF that's what you mean), at least in the short and medium term.
Knowledge work (in general) is a lot more than just crunching numbers, shuffling papers, etc. Anybody who works in a knowledge-based field (or is familiar with a knowledge-based field) knows this.
AI that's capable of fully replacing what a significant amount of knowledge workers do is still pretty far out, IMO, given how much human interaction, task variety/diversity, abstract thinking, precision, etc. is involved in much of knowledge work (not to mention legal hurdles, adoption, etc).
Will some of these jobs dissappear over the next 5-10 years? 100%. There's no point in even denying that, nor is there any point in denying that much of the rest of knowledge work will undoubtedly change over the next time span and even more so after that, but I'm pretty confident we're a ways away from it being totally disrupted by AI.
My 2 cents.
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