Will AI take your job?

Don't you still have to craft the questions to ask AI? And then you have to review, integrate and test the code it gives you.

I just asked AI and it replied...

"...The Battle of Stalingrad lasted for about five months, from August 23, 1942, to February 2, 1943..."

What I'm saying is how detailed and specific the question prompt really improves the answer.

A year ago is a lifetime in AI. It's like a flint lock to a fibre optic drone.

The point is you can't talk to it like a human. It's not Star Trek. You need to learn how it works and how to write prompts. You either want to take that onboard or you don't.

You don't just write one prompt either you refine it and work on developing the prompt.

AI

"...The first contact of the Battle of Stalingrad occurred on July 17, 1942, when German forces began their offensive to capture the city. The major offensive to seize the city itself began a few weeks later on August 23, 1942, but the initial skirmishes are dated to mid-July.

July 17, 1942: The official start of the Battle of Stalingrad begins with the initial German offensive on the city's outskirts.

August 23, 1942: The German 6th Army launched its major offensive to seize the city, leading to fierce urban warfare and aerial bombardment. ..."

It seems to be getting better and better at it. Now I do the most horrendous, sloppy requests, and it still seems to know what I'm on about. I do very cursory testing. less and less of it if I'm honest. I also use different AIs for different stuff as some appears to be better than others for specific things.

I imagine AI testing is around the corner.

Nail on the head.

People love AI or don't care until it's about to take their job.

Have you tried asking different LLMs the same question, or the same question to the same LLM at different times? It would be interesting to know how consistent they are.

I'd say with 100% certainty that AI will take my job. My job is a full time mad bastard. Anyone remember seeing that on people on the dole's Facebook.

"My issue with all of this is that there are too many people who just blindly accept what an AI throws out at them and I think that's a very dangerous road on numerous levels."

Yeah that's the real problem there. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be good enough to get people to buy into it.

I think people are wrong if they believe AI needs to be at least as good as a human to replace them. I think of it like video games. Back in the day when you bought one it was the finished product, but now they're pushed out incomplete and buggy as hell and maybe patched up at some point in the future. If companies can make the same or more money with less effort they'll do it , regardless of it reduces quality.

I work in legal and can see already the benefits to using AI; will it take my job? No, but a lawyer fluent in AI would. However, as we know, the legal industry is quite good at protecting itself from dramatic reforms - the support staff are lokely to be the ones to lose their jobs unless, again, support staff trained in AI appear on the scene.

Why won't it take your job? I would have thought AI was the perfect match for legal stuff.

You can put all legal texts that ever existed into a model. Retrieve any relevant case law on demand, properly interpreted.

After using free chat gpt on and off for the past year or so (varied tasks...lists of investment types, examples of 3x3 matrices, produce a download able file of a timeline in a specific style etc etc)

I now think its being programmed to ask me clarifying questions right up to it's free use limit in the hope I'll buy a subscription......the pattern is there over the past couple of weeks....its like **** columbo...just one more question...right up to the point you hit the free limit..

They either need to monetise yesterday or actually make a breakthrough that will generate the moolah...

When a battle "starts" can be an ambiguous question. Here is my interaction with GPT on your question:

when was the battle of Stalingrad?

The Battle of Stalingrad took place from 23 August 1942 to 2 February 1943.

I mean from first contact between the two forces?

Gotcha. If we’re talking specifically about the Battle of Stalingrad as a battle (not the whole Eastern Front), then:

• First major contact in the Stalingrad area / approaches: late July 1942, as German forces of Army Group B pushed toward the city and clashed with Soviet defenders on the Don and in the outer defensive belts.
• Heavy bombing and full-scale engagement focused on Stalingrad itself: from 23 August 1942, when the Luftwaffe massively bombed the city and ground forces reached its outskirts.
• Intense street-to-street fighting inside the city proper: from around 13 September 1942, when German 6th Army entered central Stalingrad and the famous urban combat began.

So, depending on how strictly you define “the battle” and “first contact,” you’re looking at late July 1942 on the approaches, or 23 August 1942 as the clear start of full contact in the Stalingrad battle itself.

I suppose that, unlike Fight Club, the first rule about taking a short position is you have to talk about taking a short position. Especially with his reputation. Try and encourage people to drop the stocks.