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Re:I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @04:04PM (#48299786)
> The more AI causes productivity increases, the less and less number of workers will be needed.

Why does this have to be the case with AI but it didn't have to be (and wasn't) the case with the steam engine, electricity, the automobile, or the computer & internet?

Certainly, AI could be different.

It's curious to me why the vast majority of people on here think it must be different.

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Re:I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit by lbreakjai on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:31PM (#48302219)
Because the previous revolutions only automated a small subset of jobs, it didn't automate manual work.

Some people take the view that AI could make knowledge work largely irrelevant. Any niche humans could carve for themselves would only live long enough to generate training data for the AI to automate.

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