re: Who here still thinks AI is garbage and worthless and won't take jobs?

I did a deep dive with it asking questions I’m a SME on. I’ve found that it gives a lot of erroneous data and values good answers over accurate ones. My biggest fear is not the loss of jobs per se but becoming lazy in research and accuracy because the computer says so.

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Now that we are 6+ months later and AI continues to spread how is everyone feeling about it's future?

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That it’s currently poopoo and garbage and really only good to replace google searches online.

Keep laughing. AI could easily wipe out 50% of lawyers.
The thieves already use AI for public filings. Get rid of them and let AI handle all research.
Then purge the courts AI can mediate better than humans.

You won’t lose your job to AI, you will lose it to someone who knows it

The biggest difference between a tool and a worker is the boss tells the worker to perform a task, and the worker uses a tool to perform the task. The tool cannot perform the task on its own.

Task Examples:
Take orders from our customers.
Deliver the items in this truck to our customers.
Draft a contract for our customer.
Draft a training document for our workforce.
Create and optimize this chemical process in our facility.
Manage this project to meet project requirements.
Create a 30-second commercial for our customer.
Draft an investment plan for our customer.
Diagnose and prescribe a treatment for our customer.

In the Agricultural, Industrial, and Technology Revolutions, the methods and tools changed. The workers did not change. The farm workers were still the farm workers. The factory workers were still the factory workers. The tech workers were still the tech workers.

Mechanized farming, factories, and computers are all tools. They generally did not replace workers because the boss cannot tell the tools to perform a task. The boss tells the worker to perform the task, and the workers uses a tool to perform the task.

But what happens to workers when the boss can tell the tool to perform the task? With AI, the boss can, or soon will be able to, tell the tool to perform the task, at least until the boss gets replaced by AI.

Task Examples:
Take orders from our customers.
Deliver the items in this truck to our customers.
Draft a contract for our customer.
Draft a training document for our workforce.
Create and optimize this chemical process in our facility.
Manage this project to meet project requirements.
Create a 30-second commercial for our customer.
Draft an investment plan for our customer.
Diagnose and prescribe a treatment for our customer.

The United States employs over 3.5 million truck drivers, which represents about 2.6% of the total full-time workforce of 131.8 million workers. Beyond truck driving, the broader category of transportation and transportation-related occupations employs more than 13.3 million people, accounting for roughly 9.1% of all U.S. workers. That's just the transportation industry.

Harvey can take a thick litigation claims file and draft an Answer and discovery requests. It can draft a litigation report in a user-prescribed format that not only provides timelines and summarizes all of the relevant details in minutes, it can also provide relevant next steps. It can analyze and summarize a folder full of deposition transcripts and discovery responses and note missing material and weaknesses. You can take the claims file and reports to Protégé and generate dispositive motions, motions in limine, and pretrial orders. I don't see much need for my paralegal or associates.

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AI creators and execs, at least in the short term, will price it so high that the cost benefit of replacing a living work force with AI won't offer the ROI CEOs will want. Especially with the pricing models the AI companies are rolling out to Corps.

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Companies have already spent so much, have cut jobs to offset the spending, and now are struggling since the AI isn’t there yet to do the work.

But that’s not slowing down AI spending at this point

Actual advanced AI tools (not free ChatGPT) will likely replace the jobs of many lower level roles and functions.

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Firms that used to need 10 attorneys for their workload will now only need 6 or 7.

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Does this mean they reduce their percentage fee/take? It’s only relevant, right?
Not a f-ing chance! They’ll just get more billboards!

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it won't create as many as it eliminates

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It's going to create a ton of work and therefore jobs for whoever wants one.

One of the main goals of technology in the business world is efficiency. With that comes less jobs. Yes, it will take jobs to manage AI, but I assume you will lose many more. Companies aren’t wanting to employ people that no longer have a valued skill set.

Humans will be expected to do more. Look what email and text has done. You used to be able to leave work at the office and go home. Now, your phone can go off at any minute and you’ll be expected to adjust accordingly.

People in power, be it financial or appointed, have proven to fail the average person time and again. A minor example of this is what you are seeing with flock cameras…those in power cannot be trusted to use the tool correctly.