Raw LLM Responses

>The trades would become the hardest people to replace. Even if AI can respond to complex queries, it’s going to take a long time before that intelligence gets deployed into a robotic body capable of unclogging a drain pipe. > >What I know for sure is that AGI cannot be dismissed as “just another tool” because the calculator didn’t wipe out accountants. 100%. Virtually every futurist and science fiction author of the past century made the same mistake: assuming that automating cognition would be the \*hard\* problem and that embodying computer agents would be comparatively easy. We assumed we'd automate away the laborers first, then the knowledge workers, and then finally (maybe) the creatives. Except generative AI is working in the reverse order. The professions most immediately threatened by it are digital artists, photographers, editors, and copywriters. Next on the chopping block are knowledge workers and perhaps even certain disciplines of engineering. The last people to get automated away are going to be maids, plumbers, and guys picking lettuce in hot fields because our robotics technology is going to take decades to catch up. Is ChatGPT going to take my job in the next 5 years? I don't \*think\* so. I hope not. But a lot of AI-denialism seems to be focused on calming people down for short timescales. Unless this technology hits some technical plateaus in the near future, it's hard to imagine AI advancing at its current rate and not putting half the people I know out of work in 10 or 15 years. If I have a kid... what is my kid going to do when they grow up 20 years from now? We are not ready to become a post-labor society. We can't even handle being a post-scarcity society. I'm very fearful of a "race to the bottom" as unemployment rises and workers are forced to compete a diminishing number of lower paying roles.