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AI is not “taking over most white collar jobs“ in a year or 5 years, relax.
Spend time learning AI tools and using them aggressively to make yourself more efficient (instead of catastrophizing about how they’re about to replace you), and figure out how to originate business and own client relationships.
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And just to be super clear before anyone comes at me, when I say “AI” I mean LLMs, because that’s literally all the current wave of “AI” products actually is. My main point is that LLMs are just not living up to the hype. They don’t think. They pattern-match on digitized data. That’s it. And a huge chunk of what actually drives real decisions in the real world either never gets written down anywhere or gets captured so badly it’s basically noise.
Oh and they can’t be held accountable for anything. So you’ve got systems that are missing context, missing judgment, and missing any skin in the game, and you’re telling me people want to hand them high-stakes decisions? lol that’s completely laughable, man. They can be useful tools, sure (I use them every day in my practice). But “reliable autonomous decision-maker to replace most white collar workers”? Come on.
And this is fundamental to how the technology works. Marginal improvements wont fix a that. Now, could some actually intelligent AI eventually significantly eat white collar work? Yeah, probably. I’m not ruling that out. But that’s a completely different claim about a completely different technology that does not currently exist. “AGI is 3 years away” is a different conversation. We’ve been having that conversation for decades. So until something like that is real, I’ll believe it when I see it.
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