re: How long until your industry is automated?

I wish we were more automated than we are now!

I think we are pretty close to that actually. There is a couple of automated auditing systems that I’ve seen. The main problem is the systems are horrible about jurisdictions. Report a is where the break was reported and report a belongs to Team Fred so it must be Fred’s problem to fix. But then, that’s still the same problem with real auditors. No offense to any auditors on here but auditors just don’t know enough about how specific industries operate for them to have any clue what they’re looking at.

Until we get true Artificial General Intelligence, I'm talking legitimately beyond a Turing Test level, a lot of this is bullshite. As long as human beings demand more and more goods and services at a higher higher quality, there will always exist a component of humans that cannot be automated in most industries.

When it comes to "white collar," accounting is a great example of an industry that people like to talk about because it's so data driven, but there is a lot to it that requires judgment/nuance, as well as interpersonal skills with the rest of the organization.

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I'm more than 10 years out but not by much


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Lol you think investors are going to want to have their financial function, M&A/corp dev, and investor relations run by machines?

I'm in Insurance and it seems few agents realize the impact of self-driving cars.
We're switching our focus to commercial and I think we'll be okay within my career (next 25 yrs), but even then it's semi-worrisome.

Lawyers honestly may never go out until humanity as a race does.

Once drones are able to carry people and merchandise across the border I am going to be fricked.

We run data cable. Our work isn’t going away anytime in the foreseeable future.

If buildings start engineering and building themselves we will have more to worry about than me holding a job .