Every White-Collar Role Will Have an AI Copilot. Then an AI Agent

3 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by hello_newman

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user

7 hours ago

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aithrowawaycomm

5 hours ago

I can't believe these clowns put "veterinary assistant" on the list of jobs where at least 50% of the tasks could be feasibly done with an AI agent. Do they have pets? It's a highly physical job - they have to take care of animals and administer medicine. Administrative stuff is maybe 20% of it.

"We trained our robot on 50,000 dogs and it has superhuman pet-weighing abilities! Sadly we forgot to train the algorithm on rabbits, and in a real-world deployment Floofkins was killed instantly."

Likewise with property manager, event planner, food service manager: these jobs involve a lot of squishy real-world common sense which is notoriously hard for AI even with big data, and the data hardly exists for this stuff. I am sure LLMs can help with the paperwork. But the valuable skills for these jobs are essentially orthogonal to the recent progress made in AI.

The only explanation I can see for this idiotic list: they took an enumeration of the tasks for these jobs and measured 50% by-item rather than by 50% by-time. I could see a vet assistant having 50% of tasks being like "schedule appointments" or "file paperwork." But instead of saying "wait these conclusions are absurd, how is an LLM going to feed a cat?" they used their tech/finance-bro's sneering contempt for lesser jobs to rationalize a dumb conclusion.

JumpCrisscross

10 hours ago

And a cryptocurrency wallet that makes weekly donations to Marc Andreessen’s PAC.

user

10 hours ago

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