Ask HN: What <ROLE> would you _replace_ with AI?

2 points by ATechGuy 2 months ago | 1 comment
Have been thinking about this a lot lately: assuming AI advances to a level where it can autonomously operate as <HIRED-FOR-ROLE> with less than 1% errors, would you replace it with AI? Why or why not?
  • taylodl 2 months ago
    I'm old enough to know we already have and nobody gave it a second thought:

    - When is the last time anybody took dictation?

    - Switchboard operators were automated out of existence

    - Remember the days if you needed a memo typed you would send your hand-written memo to the typing pool?

    - If you needed copies you would hand-deliver your job to the copy machine operator. Heck, that was my first job in high school!

    So...why would I expect AI to be any different? The past 150 years has shown us if a job can be automated out of existence, then it will be.

    • 2 months ago