AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs
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Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable.
It’s Labor Day, so here’s a post about how human labor is alive and well in the age of AI. I live in San Francisco and hang out with a lot of tech people, both in the AI industry and outside of it. And one thing that almost everyone I know here believes is that AI’s main economic effect is to displace humans from their jobs. Most people don’t have concrete arguments for why this should be true; it’s just an article of faith. The conventional wisdom is pretty well summed up by the first line of this tweet: Tim Urban@waitbutwhy I really wish the rise of LLMs didn't come along with…
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