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Re:E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmar... by staunton on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:18PM (#38577759)
It seems, however, that AI development (as opposed to what automation has been doing so far) will to a large part affect higher-income jobs. Your examples are "old-school automation" and don't involve AI.

It's quite possible, for example, that the value of "skilled jobs" and "knowledge work" will go down because it's easier to automate if you don't need to build hardware to manipulate things in the world.

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Re:E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmar... by askonomm on Saturday December 09, 2023 @05:44AM (#38580679)
I think I agree with you. Seeing how something as rudimentary still (in regards to the potential it has) such as Github Copilot makes me write code approx. 30% faster simply by auto-completing the mundane, boring bits of code for me, I'm pretty sure this would have the domino effect that a company can soon not need as many software developers anymore, since 3 devs can do the job of 4 devs.
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