June 3, 2023
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ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners.: Technology used to automate dirty and repetitive jobs. Now, artificial intelligence chatbots are coming after high-paid ones. (Pranshu Verma and Gerrit De Vynck, June 2, 2023, Washington Post)
When ChatGPT came out last November, Olivia Lipkin, a 25-year-old copywriter in San Francisco, didn't think too much about it. Then, articles about how to use the chatbot on the job began appearing on internal Slack groups at the tech start-up where she worked as the company's only writer.Over the next few months, Lipkin's assignments dwindled. Managers began referring to her as "Olivia/ChatGPT" on Slack. In April, she was let go without explanation, but when she found managers writing about how using ChatGPT was cheaper than paying a writer, the reason for her layoff seemed clear."Whenever people brought up ChatGPT, I felt insecure and anxious that it would replace me," she said. "Now I actually had proof that it was true, that those anxieties were warranted and now I was actually out of a job because of AI."Some economists predict artificial intelligence technology like ChatGPT could replace hundreds of millions of jobs, in a cataclysmic reorganization of the workforce mirroring the industrial revolution.
...your biggest problems are that the cost of labor and energy is headed towards zero and "poor" people consume too many calories.
Posted by Orrin Judd at June 3, 2023 5:43 PM