[HN Gopher] Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
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       Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
        
       Author : ckcheng
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-11-26 19:31 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | chinabot wrote:
       | Speculation can be enjoyable, but given the rapid pace of AI
       | advancements, where today's capabilities may be obsolete within a
       | year, it's wise to approach any claims with a healthy dose of
       | skepticism.
        
         | a3w wrote:
         | Are any products using LLMs on the horizon, except for code
         | completion? I have been a power user, hoping my workflows would
         | improve. About every workflow got slower with statistical AI,
         | and I am back to using logical AI like wolframalpha and
         | bayesians.
        
           | mark242 wrote:
           | There are entire categories of saas and enterprise vendors
           | that are about to be completely blown away.
           | 
           | For example -- not long ago, when you wanted to do l10n/i18n
           | for your business, you'd have to go through a pretty painful
           | process of integrating with eg translations.com. If you're
           | running an ecommerce site with a lot of new products (and
           | product descriptions) coming online quickly, that whole
           | process would be painful and expensive.
           | 
           | Fast forward to today -- a well-crafted prompt to Llama3.1
           | within a product pipeline makes that vendor completely
           | obsolete. Now, you could argue that this kind of automation
           | isn't new, you could have done it with an api call to Google
           | translate or something similar, and sure, that's possible,
           | but now you have one single interface into a very broad,
           | capable brain to carry out any number of tasks.
           | 
           | If I was a vendor whose business was at all centered around
           | language or data ETL or anything that involves taking text
           | and doing something with it, I would be absolutely terrified
           | at someone writing a 20-line python script with a good system
           | prompt that would make my entire business's reason for being
           | evaporate.
        
           | kevinmershon wrote:
           | phone self-service systems, tutoring services, contract
           | review, recruiting. Just to name a few
        
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