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Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A more interesting “bear case” for AI is that, if you look at the list of industries that leading AIs like GPT-4 are capable of disrupting—and therefore making money off of—the list is lackluster from a return-on-investment perspective, because the industries themselves are not very lucrative. What are AIs of the GPT-4 generation best at? It’s things like:

writing essays or short fictions

digital art

chatting

programming assistance

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (24 children)

Weird that AI isnt replacing things like management, CEOs, stock investors, accountants... you know, jobs that tend to be about numbers and efficiency, which you would think AI would excel at.

Instead, we have it skirting copyright by stealing other people works and changing it just enough to not be a direct copy.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (22 children)

stock investors, accountants

Computers already replaced a lot of them long ago.

management, CEOs

What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago (15 children)

What part of their jobs do you think an AI can replace?

The whole sitting around, profiting from actual laborers part, I'm guessing.

[+] [email protected] -32 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The fucking antiwork crowd is insufferable and intellectually dishonest. Be better. This is such a sad comment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why? Why can an AI not replace a CEO? And why has CEO compensation risen, while average worker compensation dropped, all while worker output has increased over the past decades? That seems like simple math, that the money isn't going to who it should be going to and is just going to management and investors because they make the rules

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The issue you're speaking about is an issue of oligopoles and giant businesses, not ceos and management. It's a breakdown of economic principles, namely, supply and demand of labor, due to oligopoles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And giant businesses and oligopolies are led by.... who exactly? Sure, you can say "not all CEOs" but still, too many CEOs.

I do appreciate the added nuance and more accuracy tho.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are thousands of unproblmatic ceos to every problematic ceo.

You issue is with the top couple hundred businesses. There are literally 100s of thousands of ceos, managers, and leadership individuals who are not part of the problem. Look at the responses here. This group think mob would have you believe every single ceo is Satan.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thousands for every one, eh? You got a citation for that wild claim, friendo? I mean, talk about bootlicking. FFS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just go look up how many businesses there are in America. You can do some rough math based on that, shouldn't be too hard. It's amazing you call me a bootlicker over pretty tame comments that really shouldn't be controversial. You antiwork folk really hate every business owner no matter what, don't ya?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

As a business owner myself, I now know you're even more full of shit than I knew before. Well done.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You're a useful idiot for the billionaire class. You'll never earn what they lucked (or were born) into regardless of how hard you try. Wake up, bootlicker.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Stop simping for the rich. They don't love you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

You really think all ceos and managers do zero work?

You do realize there are closed of companies that aren't Amazon and tesla, right?

There are literally tens of thousands of ceos of small companies and non profits that work their ass off.

This is why you are being intellectually dishonest. You're not that stupid, but you won't admit it.