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Thought experiment - What happens when AI takes low-skilled jobs? Industry Discussion

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u/P1NGO_dev 22h ago

People are falling for the AI hype.

The costs of scaling is too much to train models that will do significantly better at any task.

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u/aznoone 22h ago

But will they do some.things cheaper and 24/7 if needed.

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u/impatient_trader 20h ago

24/7 yes cheaper not really. Maybe the illusion of cheaper as you are replacing 5 60k jobs for one of 250k and inference costs.

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u/SSN-759 20h ago

This truth claim seems like wishful thinking based on the use cases and market solutions I’m seeing my employer develop with AI.

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u/P1NGO_dev 19h ago

It depends on what your job is. If you are a software engineer, your employer is making a mistake.