How close is AI to taking my job? | Epoch AI

Beyond benchmarks as leading indicators for task automation

How close is AI to taking my job? | Epoch AI Gradient Updates shares more opinionated or informal takes on big questions in AI progress. These posts solely represent the views of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Epoch AI as a whole. I. Searching under the streetlight How can we anticipate when AI will be able to do our jobs? AI researchers have mainly tried to answer this question by building complex AI benchmarks. The problem is that this approach is fundamentally flawed. A good example of this is OpenAI’s GDPval . On paper, it’s a cool benchmark that captures AI perfo

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