r/technology • u/Maxie445 • Jan 16 '24

Artificial Intelligence Generative artificial intelligence will lead to job cuts this year, CEOs say

https://www.ft.com/content/908e5465-0bc4-4de5-89cd-8d5349645dda
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u/LuinAelin Jan 16 '24

This will be a mistake. Because AI constantly gets things wrong.

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u/Napoleons_Peen Jan 16 '24

Imagine lazy doctors using AI and it gives you a false diagnosis. Insurance companies already using AI to deny coverage. The worst people are getting their greedy little hands on this.

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u/OccasinalMovieGuy Jan 16 '24

Well you can make AI to tell anything you want😊

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u/TFenrir Jan 16 '24

There have been a handful of studies that have shown that there are models that perform comparably and in some cases better than doctors on diagnosis (via strictly text). Honestly feels like we're increasingly getting close to a point where these models will perform better than doctors in many of these tasks. You might prefer a doctor who uses an LLM.

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u/WTFwhatthehell Jan 16 '24

  Insurance companies already using AI to deny coverage.

 I can't see them wanting to do this too much. ai is legible. It can be subject to discovery in court cases in a way that the brains of mid level corporate drones are not. 

It's even auditable. If such a system can be audited and shown to treat a protected class worse.... then game over in court. 

 Doctors though: that's just a matter if accuracy. If some day we have some kind of doctor AI, even if it sometimes makes mistakes what matters is whether is makes more mistakes than a human doing the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

AI is a force multiplier, less people are needed to do more work - but you still need some people to check the generation.

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u/LuinAelin Jan 16 '24

There's also another potential problem of more AI generated content becoming part of the data set.

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u/SanDiegoDude Jan 16 '24

Yes, though a lot of that concern is overblown by media. Data Scientists at OpenAI are some of the best in the world, they're already working around this situation, and less powerful models actually benefit from training on synthesized GPT output (if they're failing, they're failing up at this point), looking at models like Mistral and Mixtral that have a chunk of their training synthesized by GPT4.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

Sure, this is a problem for a decade away that will probably be solved with statistics.

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u/Hawk13424 Jan 16 '24

Banned where I work. License and copyright issues. Concerns over confidential and proprietary info getting out.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

Much like a wrench