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0 pointsVirusNewbie1y ago0 comments

> I'll admit it's totally possible LLMs and AI are going to be as earth shattering

You don't need earth shattering though. The PC revolution was huge because every company got a bit more productive with things like word processors and printing and email.

The internet (and then later mobile) was big because every company got a revenue boost, from a small one with online presence to a a huge one for e-commerce to transformative with Netflix and streaming services.

Ignoring the more sci-fi claims of AGI or anything, if you just believe that AI is going to make every office worker 10% more productive, surely each company is goign to have to invest in AI, no? Anytime you have an industry that can appeal to every other company, it's going to be big.

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wongarsu1y ago· 2 in thread

I wouldn't be surprised if in large companies (say >500 office workers) 10% of all office work becomes redundant. Not in the form of each worker getting 10% more productive, but in form of some roles getting eliminated completely and others losing 80% of their workload.

fennecfoxy1y ago

That's been true even for traditionally programmed replacements tho, there are plenty of office out there with a bunch of people banging on excel when everything they do could be automated.

VirusNewbieOP1y ago

Why? You could make the same argument about PCs or mobile or the Internet?

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