A Nobel laureate just predicted the end of your job.
Ask him one question and it falls apart.
Issue 26 August 20264 receipts4 min
If AI can do routine intellectual labor, any job that consists mainly of routine intellectual labor is going to be done by AI.
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Say this in tomorrow's meeting“Next time someone quotes Hinton at your planning meeting, be the person who asks: 'What dataset is that prediction built on?' Then watch the room.”
Receipts
- Supports datacenterknowledge.com:
If AI can do routine intellectual labor, any job that consists mainly of routine intellectual labor is going to be done by AI.
- Supports forbes.com:
What are those people going to do? Anything you could retrain them to do, AI will be able to do.
- Refutes forbes.com:
In software engineering, AI is taking over a lot of the writing of code. But it turns out only a small part of what software engineers do is writing code.
- Refutes budgetlab.yale.edu:
the broader labor market has not experienced a discernible disruption since ChatGPT's release 33 months ago, undercutting fears that AI automation is currently eroding the demand for cognitive labor
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