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

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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."

The rest of the world doesn’t have obese flyovers and minorities who eat ultra processed foods and do drugs. It skyrockets premiums that are given out by the gubmint like candy

I sentence PP to commuting to work by walking or public bus service. PP's choice. No Metro because it's too expensive to build and operate.

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Anonymous wrote:Part of the role of the physician is assuming professional liability. When AI companies are willing and able to assume the malpractice risk for misdiagnosis/faulty treatment, including having to pay out for malpractice suits, then I will be worried that doctors will be replaced. Until then, a doctor is needed. of course, it will make life much worse for the remaining doctors if AI efficiency increases the expectation to sign off on hundreds of AI assisted cases and assume liability for them. I’m a 50 yo radiologist, and when the day comes that I have to do that, I will just retire. I’m already financially independent; have been saving and investing as preparation for that exact scenario. AI can just sign off on itself.

I hadn't considered this. Good point. I think the tech bros think they'll just put in a button patients must click that forces you to promise they're not liable (with terms if service they can adjust at will later since it's all digital) and that will be that.

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Anonymous wrote:You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

It's been a waste of time for years, at least in law, but it's necessary to require it because people are getting dumber with shorter attention spans. You need to prove you can sit and read boring things and discuss them intelligently.

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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.

Claude will let you know what to do in terms of documents and financial planing to minimize the estate tax. As an attorney, it is 95% of the way there in terms of the actual strategy of estate law. In terms of documents, it is probably 3 years away from outperforming the median estate attorney. Maybe five years from being near perfect.

So still 3 years away from doing one of the most basic practice areas better than the median lawyer….

For HNW individuals it is far from the most basic practice area. It will overtake junior transactional work in a quicker timeframe.

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Anonymous wrote:Tech people always say that everything will be taken over by AI or solved by technology.

Does anyone remember pets.com?

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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.

Tell me about medical liability insurance for AI doctors.

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Anonymous wrote:You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

Law school involves almost no memorization, so that's another great example of AI guys thinking they understand jobs they don't do and education they didn't get. I hate the phrase "think like a lawyer" but it's an accurate description of what you learn in law school - skills not information.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys, AI is taking over,m. The gullible rush to embrace it and be “forward thinking” and not a Luddite is hastening the end of most jobs done by humans. I work at a labor union. We’ve been told to be AI forward. Let that sink in.

Let what sink in? That labor unions are in the same boat as everyone else?

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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?

Good point. It could have AI do all the pleadings and hire a cheap lawyer to sign off on them and appear in court, but it doesn't.

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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.

Claude will let you know what to do in terms of documents and financial planing to minimize the estate tax. As an attorney, it is 95% of the way there in terms of the actual strategy of estate law. In terms of documents, it is probably 3 years away from outperforming the median estate attorney. Maybe five years from being near perfect.

So still 3 years away from doing one of the most basic practice areas better than the median lawyer….

For HNW individuals it is far from the most basic practice area. It will overtake junior transactional work in a quicker timeframe.

It is very basic even for UHNW. And estate lawyers, including for UNHW, have been using software to draft for decades.

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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.

Claude will let you know what to do in terms of documents and financial planing to minimize the estate tax. As an attorney, it is 95% of the way there in terms of the actual strategy of estate law. In terms of documents, it is probably 3 years away from outperforming the median estate attorney. Maybe five years from being near perfect.

So still 3 years away from doing one of the most basic practice areas better than the median lawyer….

For HNW individuals it is far from the most basic practice area. It will overtake junior transactional work in a quicker timeframe.

It is very basic even for UHNW. And estate lawyers, including for UNHW, have been using software to draft for decades.

Tell me you’ve never hired a lawyer without telling me you’ve never hired a lawyer (except maybe for your degenerate daughter’s DUI with her illegal bf)

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Anonymous wrote:You weenies should read the article. The guy isn't saying that doctors and lawyers and scientists are obsolete. He's saying that spending half a million dollars and 3 years to memorize a ton of information already in books is a waste of money and time.

Law school involves almost no memorization, so that's another great example of AI guys thinking they understand jobs they don't do and education they didn't get. I hate the phrase "think like a lawyer" but it's an accurate description of what you learn in law school - skills not information.

There’s a ton of memorization in law school and “thinking like a lawyer” is a cheap marketing gimmick to entice 23 year olds at career crossroads to pay 150k+ to listen to smelly boomers talk about their activism in college while the Nixon got impeached. It should be an undergrad major (and it’d be an easy one), no one has to go to grad school to work at Point72 or another megafund, which requires way more intellectual firepower and training than anything in law.

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I sense that people like Google execs will ensure they have access to high quality in-person medical visits with cream of the crop doctors and lawyers while the rest of us are told to fxk off and talk to the machine.

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Anonymous wrote:I sense that people like Google execs will ensure they have access to high quality in-person medical visits with cream of the crop doctors and lawyers while the rest of us are told to fxk off and talk to the machine.

You don’t get it. The machine with a few years of training will be better than an inner city ER doctor. The malpractice will be much less common. Similar to how Waymo is safer than human drivers.

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Anonymous wrote:I sense that people like Google execs will ensure they have access to high quality in-person medical visits with cream of the crop doctors and lawyers while the rest of us are told to fxk off and talk to the machine.

You don’t get it. The machine with a few years of training will be better than an inner city ER doctor. The malpractice will be much less common. Similar to how Waymo is safer than human drivers.

But we're still human. Scared and suffering humans typically want another human being helping them. Talking to a chatbot when you think you have cancer is a frightening idea. The wealthy are going to fly their asses to the best clinics in Europe and expect highly skilled, attentive doctors with the best bedside manners. And if they need that ER doc? That's what pricey concierge medicine is for-- personal attention.