Ex–Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time in the era of AI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That has been true for law for a long time. It’s not worth getting the degree unless it’s from a top school. The market is over saturated and a lot of legal research that used to be done by entry level lawyers can be outsourced.

AI will never replace physicians though. It’s one thing for a physician to use AI to help diagnose, but nobody is going to have surgery just because an AI interface recommends it.

Meh. I am a lawyer and would never hire an AI for a legal need I had. I can see it being a tool but I would always want the actual lawyer advising me and helping me think through the issues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That has been true for law for a long time. It’s not worth getting the degree unless it’s from a top school. The market is over saturated and a lot of legal research that used to be done by entry level lawyers can be outsourced.

AI will never replace physicians though. It’s one thing for a physician to use AI to help diagnose, but nobody is going to have surgery just because an AI interface recommends it.

Meh. I am a lawyer and would never hire an AI for a legal need I had. I can see it being a tool but I would always want the actual lawyer advising me and helping me think through the issues.

Corporate associates aren’t doing any of this. They redline like AI can while senior equity partners think through issues.

[Anonymous]

Ok so you go to AI doctor with your kid, kid has heritable illness. AI overlords sterilize you and kid to lower social healthcare costs in long term.

You go to AI doctor at age 75 and it diagnosis cancer. Sends you to palliative care because AI overlords have rule about treating old people.

What's not to like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok so you go to AI doctor with your kid, kid has heritable illness. AI overlords sterilize you and kid to lower social healthcare costs in long term.

You go to AI doctor at age 75 and it diagnosis cancer. Sends you to palliative care because AI overlords have rule about treating old people.

What's not to like?

You sound as delusional as tea partiers and their “death panels.” In reality that AI doctors costs a few thousand a year to operate so they’ll have more money for R&D and nurses to get you healthy again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I trust what AI will be capable of five years out over a general practitioner. Most aren’t that good and often overworked so they make errors AI won’t. I’m excited and it will lower health care costs.

+1 AI is a great resource and I find it much more informative than most doctors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ok so you go to AI doctor with your kid, kid has heritable illness. AI overlords sterilize you and kid to lower social healthcare costs in long term.

You go to AI doctor at age 75 and it diagnosis cancer. Sends you to palliative care because AI overlords have rule about treating old people.

What's not to like?

You sound as delusional as tea partiers and their “death panels.” In reality that AI doctors costs a few thousand a year to operate so they’ll have more money for R&D and nurses to get you healthy again.

Hah!

[Anonymous]

I uploaded my x-ray into AI and it got my diagnosis right but the treatment plan totally wrong. It may improve but it’s not replacing doctors just yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find these "experts" know little about the lived experiences, needs, and preferences of the majority of people.

Yea. I need a hectic and understaffed ER in the city that takes eight hours to get through for ultimately minor ailments. Extra points for patients who are handcuffed to their bed because they also committed a felony. I’ll take AI

It's such a failure of imagination that the response to complaints about unaffordable unpleasant medical care is to throw AI at the problem instead of saying "hey, maybe we should have excellent, affordable human provided care like the rest of the developed world does."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That has been true for law for a long time. It’s not worth getting the degree unless it’s from a top school. The market is over saturated and a lot of legal research that used to be done by entry level lawyers can be outsourced.

AI will never replace physicians though. It’s one thing for a physician to use AI to help diagnose, but nobody is going to have surgery just because an AI interface recommends it.

It's not worth going into debt for a law degree unless it's from a top school and you do well there (or are connected). There's a tremendous need for public defenders, family lawyers, tenant advocates, etc. Those jobs don't pay the big firm salaries that people need to pay their school debt, but that's not the same thing as a lack of jobs for lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ex-google-exec-says-degrees-in-law-and-medicine-are-a-waste-of-time-because-they-take-so-long-to-complete-that-ai-will-catch-up-by-graduation/ar-AA1W8Fzh?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69ad725a7d7b4a33a3b8db35aa5b5448&ei=29

My DS and DD are in first year of medical school with student loan debt at public universities, and this really scares me. My younger brother is working for an AI company specializing in radiology that can do a much better job than a radiologist.

Every day we have some self-styled font of wisdom gracing us with their thoughts about AI. Think critically for yourself.

[Anonymous]

Google says as it pays the most elite firms thousands an hour to defend it in its numerous antitrust suits…

If AI is so great, why not have Gemini defend it in its cases?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That has been true for law for a long time. It’s not worth getting the degree unless it’s from a top school. The market is over saturated and a lot of legal research that used to be done by entry level lawyers can be outsourced.

AI will never replace physicians though. It’s one thing for a physician to use AI to help diagnose, but nobody is going to have surgery just because an AI interface recommends it.

Meh. I am a lawyer and would never hire an AI for a legal need I had. I can see it being a tool but I would always want the actual lawyer advising me and helping me think through the issues.

Neither would Google.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Google says as it pays the most elite firms thousands an hour to defend it in its numerous antitrust suits…

If AI is so great, why not have Gemini defend it in its cases?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That has been true for law for a long time. It’s not worth getting the degree unless it’s from a top school. The market is over saturated and a lot of legal research that used to be done by entry level lawyers can be outsourced.

AI will never replace physicians though. It’s one thing for a physician to use AI to help diagnose, but nobody is going to have surgery just because an AI interface recommends it.

Meh. I am a lawyer and would never hire an AI for a legal need I had. I can see it being a tool but I would always want the actual lawyer advising me and helping me think through the issues.

When AI stops hallucinate cases and laws, we can maybe start talking. Right now -- a lawyer still has to check every cite and read every case. AI might help with research, but it's not replacing the lawyer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/ex-google-exec-says-degrees-in-law-and-medicine-are-a-waste-of-time-because-they-take-so-long-to-complete-that-ai-will-catch-up-by-graduation/ar-AA1W8Fzh?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=69ad725a7d7b4a33a3b8db35aa5b5448&ei=29

My DS and DD are in first year of medical school with student loan debt at public universities, and this really scares me. My younger brother is working for an AI company specializing in radiology that can do a much better job than a radiologist.

How much does that tech bro stand to earn by making everyone think AI is all that? They will make bank on stocks and be on to the next tech thing they will not allow their own children to use.

Sorry, bro. When I need a tumor removed or a chemo treatment plan, I want a human and not AI slop.

I am hiring a lawyer this week to do my estate planning. Not using AI for that either.