Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional t

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Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional t

COLGeek Not sure which is worst, the naivety or the wishful thinking. Question for the "great minds" making these predictions…If you get rid on entry level white collar positions with AI, how do you grow the mid-/upper-tier folks needed to proof the AI slop generated? Reply

USAFRet COLGeek said: Not sure which is worst, the naivety or the wishful thinking. Question for the "great minds" making these predictions…If you get rid on entry level white collar positions with AI, how do you grow the mid-/upper-tier folks needed to proof the AI slop generated? a/Zag5acQ View: https://imgur.com/gallery/ai-is-garbage-Zag5acQ Reply

vanadiel007 If it's true what he's saying, his job will be gone also in 18 months. Should be a follow up article in 18 months asking him how it feels to be unemployed. Reply

nimbulan SomeoneElse23 said: Of course they are going to say this. Have to keep stock prices up! They'd be fired if they said the truth: "The reality is, we're burning through trillions of dollars for LLMs that lose focus more than a 2 year old, hallucinate (imagine things), and that make mistakes 20-80% of the time. Furthermore, they are trained on available information and can't tell what's true and what's false." The worst part is that they'll go ahead and replace jobs with AI despite the obvious problems. Reply

QuarterSwede 1 of 2 things is going on here: 1) Pumping the stock price by lying about LLM “AI” coding's potential OR 2) He’s naive about LLMs coding's potential Since he is Microsoft’s AI CEO I’m going with 1. The reality is that LLMs don’t have the capacity to come up with anything new . They regurgitate what they are trained on and have zero creative ability. This is fundamentally different than how organic life learns. Is using LLMs as a tool to increase our c oding speed going to take some jobs because now you need less white-collar coders to do the same workload? Absolutely. Devs are already using LLM coding to take months of work down to the day level (see Steven-Throughton-Smith’s recent updates to 3 apps in 1 day). BUT, in order to be that efficient you need to be proficient in coding already. Reply

SomeoneElse23 QuarterSwede said: Is using LLMs as a tool to increase our c oding speed going to take some jobs because now you need less white-collar coders to do the same workload? Absolutely. Devs are already using LLM coding to take months of work down to the day level (see Steven-Throughton-Smith’s recent updates to 3 apps in 1 day). BUT, in order to be that efficient you need to be proficient in coding already. Bingo. LLMs are tools that work well with extreme oversight, guidance, and double checking. I'm not joking about the attention span of a 2 year old. Reply

SomeoneElse23 USAFRet said: a/Zag5acQ View: https://imgur.com/gallery/ai-is-garbage-Zag5acQ I traced this down to the source, and the original post has been deleted. Comments on it indicate it's highly likely fake. But, I think we all know it could be true, which is why we initially believed it. Reply

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