Re:Generative AI set to affect 300M jobs across major economies
by astrange on Saturday April 01, 2023 @11:53AM
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> As I see it, jobs fall on two axes:
This is an embedding of jobs into a 2-dimensional latent space, which always produces something, like those political compass memes. It's not an actual description of job requirements though because it loses a lot on the way.
> Some jobs require neither a huge amount of training nor inherent ability. These are paradoxically often hard to automate, because they typically require a lot of rote physical movements that are difficult for machines (e.g. fast food cook).
This is only paradoxical because you've defined your terms inappropriately. Fine motor control is an "inherent ability"; "inherent ability" is not a single number you can put on a graph.
As Wittgenstein said, all philosophical problems are made up.
This is an embedding of jobs into a 2-dimensional latent space, which always produces something, like those political compass memes. It's not an actual description of job requirements though because it loses a lot on the way.
> Some jobs require neither a huge amount of training nor inherent ability. These are paradoxically often hard to automate, because they typically require a lot of rote physical movements that are difficult for machines (e.g. fast food cook).
This is only paradoxical because you've defined your terms inappropriately. Fine motor control is an "inherent ability"; "inherent ability" is not a single number you can put on a graph.
As Wittgenstein said, all philosophical problems are made up.