Despite the title, this article chronicles how GPT is threatening nearly all junior jobs, using legal work as an example. Written by Sourcegraph, which makes a FOSS version of GitHub Copilot.
Despite the title, this article chronicles how GPT is threatening nearly all junior jobs, using legal work as an example. Written by Sourcegraph, which makes a FOSS version of GitHub Copilot.
The closer a job is to the skeleton of an industry, the less replaceable it is.
What that “AI” does attack is learning of all kinds. It eats simpler tasks which would require some understanding and work as a step for someone to learn some area more gradually. It also poisons the common information space with degenerate output.
It’s sort of a subtle mass destruction weapon aimed at cultures of people learning to create, as opposed to cultures of people stealing and teaming up to gain some power over what’s already created.
That said, I don’t understand for whom are such tools useful. Except for the wow-effect. The whole reason I’m looking for documentation, for example, is to find something correct. I don’t want the appearance of a correct answer. I want the correct answer. A good enough appearance won’t give me the knowledge of reality to make a functional thing.