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[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago

Ah, according to Anthropic. Yep, straight into the toilet with the rest of the slop.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is just an ad from Anthropic.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol "legal"

My husband's employer keeps using AI to look up legal cases to support their arguments in labour disputes and it's ALWAYS hallucinations.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Same with my searches in technology. If it’s rare or difficult to find, and the search result isn’t an obscure web forum from 5+ years ago, it’s a hallucination.

[–] postscarce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Judges and Magistrates are the legal jobs most threatened by AI? That seems… unlikely.

The "What AI could theoretically perform" column should just be 100% straight down if we are pulling shit out of our asses anyways.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

“Management” data is simply incorrect. AI can do almost all management tasks today.

It is interesting how many jobs are supposedly threatened, while also being jobs in which accuracy is critical. The specific thing AI is bad at.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sales should be at 100% though, as LLMs are already capable of confidently lying about a product's capabilities

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Calling it lying is anthropomorphizing them. It implies they know the truth and choose not to give it - that's not what's happening.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

It's true, sales people probably believe the stuff they say

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Then they're not lying.

Also, LLMs don't have beliefs either. That's still anthropomorphizing it.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 21 hours ago

I was just making a joke about sales, we don't need to fully dissect it, but I can appreciate a desire for accuracy in my comedy so here's a rewrite:

Sales should be at 100% though, as LLMs are already capable of confidently bullshitting about a product's capabilities

[–] chisel@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

AI absolutely can not do even a significant portion of management tasks today. I wouldn't trust an AI to manage a picnic at the park, let alone people's livelihoods.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

my three leanings. stem, IT, and education. yay.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A lot of the stuff towards the bottom were hit by the long age of automation that we responded with indifference or stuff like, now you have time to pursue the arts or learn IT or learn a trade, etc. At least most of that time there was other manual labor to move to as previous manual labor was automated. Autoworkers from the 70s and 80s finally get to say to all the college educated folks, now you know how I felt. Farmhands have probably been able to say that many times over the last 200 years

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Have you ever talked to anyone in "healthcare support" over the phone? That shit could be improved by switching 100% to AI right now. It's a revolving door of people who don't want or understand the job and don't give one quarter of one shit about it. We could improve central scheduling overnight, at least AI might pretend to look at provider notes.

[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I always wanted to get into gardening anyw - no wait, that would just mean I'd have to make dead lawns all the time everywhere, I'd hate that 🤢