re: Microsoft AI chief says in 5 years AI can do every white collar job.

I am of the opinion that a good product sells itself. The problem is that there are very few truly good products out there.

I can't see where a mechanic will be as affected short term.

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The real problem IMO is that companies are going whole hog into the potential of AI; without fulling understanding if or how it can fill their needs, tasking employees with just figuring it out.

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I had three instances last week where customer service was 100% bot/ai. Two got resolved by requesting a human and 1 was unresolved and cost them my transaction.

While I understand this is a micro event, I feel some have rushed the experiment.

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I had three instances last week where customer service was 100% bot/ai. Two got resolved by requesting a human and 1 was unresolved and cost them my transaction.

While I understand this is a micro event, I feel some have rushed the experiment.

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To be fair, depending on the company, a lot of times interacting with customer service isn't all that different from interacting with an AI due to how scripted they are. In some instances, an AI may actually seem more personable.

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AI can't make ethical engineering judgements

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I understand engineering ethics is a whole thing, but it’s mostly around not stealing people’s stuff and lying which AI can definitely manage.

If you are talking safety, yes it can. If you are talking safety requirements built on feels and not science then I’m not sure I care.

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You're allowed to represent yourself, and with AI you will see more people choosing to do so, using AI as support.

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Agree that most sales reps are worthless. However, a well-trained sales rep, with proper motivation, and now with AI assistant tools being developed, professional account managers can expand their horizons, have many tasks performed automatically, set appointments, act as travel planner, write emails, send out marketing and invitations for events, field queries, arrange for assets to deploy for demonstrations and generally give to account managers the type of granularity into their business that someone much higher up will notice and appreciate. The successful account manager will have AI tools at his disposal that turn the account manager into a business manager and making better, smarter decisions. Sales at certain levels (my client projects ranged from one-off sales that might be as low as $1500 to as high as $400 million) Those large sales are going to be relationship led and if you have AI handling the small one-off stuff that represents 20% of his business, it frees up the account manager to develop the large sales through relationship building.

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You're allowed to represent yourself, and with AI you will see more people choosing to do so, using AI as support.

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I've dealt with some pro se plaintiffs using AI and if you're like the typical pro se plaintiff, AI ain't gonna help you. It actually makes things worse.

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As someone who does this daily, AI routinely fails and requires a human, me, to double-check the code, and it sucks. It's faster and more efficient if I write it and move on. Maybe it will get better, but if you let an AI agent "update" anything, be ready for some seriously fricked up code.

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Sounds like you are describing a free tool or older AI or short codes. AI can generate apps or codes or whatever that used to take a team a year to write. And it’s going to get better. It might have some debugging but it will definitely take out a large amount of people by doing 95% of the work.