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I think in most cases, yes. But sometimes it can be very disruptive to the workforce, too. I think of what AI is going to do to the commercial driver, factory / warehouse, and food service industries, for example. That’s a huge labor pool to reallocate.

Not to mention ChatGTP is already has most of the skills needed to be a reasonable replacement for most of my customer service interactions. Not all, but somewhere around 70% I’d say.

Not trying to be alarmist, but I feel we’re going to have to rethink labor in both large and small ways.

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Its not going to do anything to the commercial driver, factory/warehouse, and food service industries.

Those are physical labour based industries, and dexterity robots are very, very expensive and not cost competitive with humans.

Low end, phone/chat only customer service will be replaced very soon. But what's next in line is millions of white collar jobs, from medicine to law to accountancy to teachers.

You are like 2 years behind, the 'truck drivers will be replaced first' narrative has long been flipped on its head.

> Those are physical labour based industries, and dexterity robots are very, very expensive and not cost competitive with humans.

Costs come down over time, generally. This also depends on cheap labour, which is an active area of discussion, I think you'd agree.

Physical labor industries very much at risk, along with white collar jobs.

example: Flippy 2 — a robot arm that works the fryer at fast-food restaurants — already deployed at Chipotle, White Castle and Wing Zone. It’s coming fast.

Oh, collectively technology definitely replaces workers. As a member of labor it's up to us to seize the productivity margin introduced by technology.

How did you manage to misspell ChatGPT?

Maybe we should take your insight with a giant grain of salt. Especially since it's not groundbreaking.

Why doesn't HN have a downvote option?

Because if reddit is anything to go off of downvoting is ultimately abused to mean "i don't agree with you" without putting in the effort to explain their disagreement. Or just being lazily critical, as you are

Why do you criticise without adding anything substantial to the discussion?

Super fair. Longtime folks on HN learn to take every supposed insight with a giant grain of salt. When it comes to predicting what will change what, we’re all just wildly guessing.