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Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:

writing essays or short fictions

digital art

chatting

programming assistance
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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

Weird that AI isnt replacing things like management, CEOs, stock investors, accountants... you know, jobs that tend to be about numbers and efficiency, which you would think AI would excel at.

Instead, we have it skirting copyright by stealing other people works and changing it just enough to not be a direct copy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (22 children)

stock investors, accountants

Computers already replaced a lot of them long ago.

management, CEOs

What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (3 children)

the part where they collect all the money and go on vacations cant be replaced by ai but could certainly be extinguished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not to darken your perspective, but you don't really think that AI's gonna remain as fundamentally stupid as it is currently, do you? As soon as any sort of self-awareness crops up (could be decades, could be months), you think it'll just install a global UBI, etc. and make all human life equally enjoyable and kush? Follow-up question: care to share what you're smoking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Oh this day can come, but we're pretty much at the birth of this thing and what we have now is not close. There are a lot of cool theories currently but I don't really think we can really predict it this far for now. I think right now its beholden to its masters, so the capitalist elites will have their say on how we use it for now.

What I meant was that the job of a CEO doesn't really need to exist in its current form.

Follow up answer: I guess I smoke a variety of those types of things but way too seldomly to really give you a good answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

All fair points, and if you're ever on the Upper Left Coast, drop me a line. It all but grows on trees out here. 🤌🏼

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