CEO of Microsoft AI says most white collar work will be fully automated within 18 months

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I love how the OT will simply post anything regardless of how stupid it is.

CEO of Microsoft AI will be fully automated within 12 months.

See, two can play at this game.

And he is proud of this. More proof all these elite types would rather have you dead.

I might open up a woodworking school for white collar baws. My woodshop is fully outfitted with high end power machines and traditional hand tools.

Good start with insurance adjusters

Yeah, I'm calling BS on this one. I do technical reports sometimes for work, most recently and Ichthyoplankton assessment, and so I thought I would test to see how well AI would do and if there were portions of the data analysis I could get it to help with.

Initially it wrote me scripts in python that were supposed to parse the multiple data files and generate the tables I needed. While it processed the data, the outputs were never right, and when I would point out the error it would tell me something like I averaged some number that wasn't supposed to be averaged but couldn't explain why.

After building the excel sheet to do the calculations myself, with a couple helpful prompts from AI on formulas, i would ask it to generate numbers for the tables using the data I had already generated and it was often wrong. Not just wrong, but it would say use this number to check that your calculations are right, and I would check and it would be wrong. I would point it out and it would give some bizarre reason why it ignored the specific instructions and formulas I gave it and got the wrong result.

I use AI a lot, and it helps me be more efficient, but you absolutely need someone who understands when a result it is giving doesn't make sense. In the Ichtyo analysis if I had relied on AI it was producing an impact that was more than 10X what the correct numbers ended up being. It's like they recycled some of the computers doing climate projections for the last 20 years.

"most" - bullshite. And: he wishes.

As a CPA who has been fully integrating AI into my practice over the last 2 years, I can promise you, it's not even close to replacing us in the next 5 years, much less 12-18 months.

Has it helped streamline tasks, absolutely, but it still fricks up way too much.