I'm increasingly skeptical that #AI will put people out of work. History has shown that life becomes continually complex and new jobs are always created. I always write that the Information Age is gone, and we are now in the Attention Scarcity Age. Change is happening faster than ever, people are drowning in information, and attention / focus are the new scarce resources.
My prediction is that #LLMs and AI might take over basic, repetitive stuff, but human experts will be busy doing things, like evaluating #AIAgents. With all the change happening, to stay competitive, it will take full time people just to keep testing an evaluating which models and agents to use, how to deploy them, and help them cope with change.
We've been here before:
1. Historical - hundreds of thousands of jobs like blacksmiths, elevator operators, stenographers, and typesetters were eliminated, but new jobs were created.
2. McDonalds - They added ordering kiosks in stores and people thought it would eliminate jobs. Instead, the pandemic happened, and people switched to drive-through, and they added mobile ordering / curbside. That created jobs.
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