Anonymous wrote:I dunno, but I’m a lawyer and 100% use it to get bits of my work done faster. I’ve been checking the answers carefully so far for accuracy. It’s pretty amazing. What I really want is a bot to generate the headers and format of different litigation papers, insert the parties’ names, the signature block, etc.

+1

This. Computer work and lawyering will be the first to go.

Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer who hates writing briefs, I really effing doubt AI can do it. It’s much harder, at least at a high level, than non lawyers get. Truly, I wish AI could replace it. But it can’t.

1. This is just the first/early iteration, it will get better. Just like the first internet search engine wasn’t Google.

2. It might not ever get you to 100%, but even if it gets you 90% and you review and update the other 10%, that will still over time reduce the need for human labor.

As a lawyer who hates writing briefs, I really effing doubt AI can do it. It’s much harder, at least at a high level, than non lawyers get. Truly, I wish AI could replace it. But it can’t.

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Anonymous wrote:Read something awhile ago that said the reason many of us find life so stressful now is that in previous generations at some point you developed expertise in your field and it felt relaxing cuz you could do a significant part of it daily on auto pilot. You felt competent and relaxed but now those parts of your job get automatic so you spend all day every day doing only the difficult fiddley bits of your job. All exceptions and tricks all the time. Felt about right

Yep. When email was still the main communication at work, I would spend about 2 hours on a Friday kind of zoning out closing the loop on things, filing email away. I also had a notepad up and as a though occurred to me as I saw the weeks communication on my work in one place at one time I jotted it down. Organized the thoughts, set up meetings and priorities for the upcoming week. The best thing to come out of those two hours was not a clean in box but the time to decompress from the pace and kind of low key brainstorm. Lots of good stuff about TEAMS, Jira, etc. to keep track of things w/out email, but I miss that time.

Right. Work now is a lot more intense because so many tasks are automated. The jobs that are most likely to be replaced are lower level work done by administrative roles. Where I work we already have ZERO admin support, which is terrible. Admins provide a lot of benefit beyond correcting document format and routing but that’s all people see so they’re likely to just replace that work, leaving only high level jobs that require higher levels of education to perform. That results in exacerbating class issues. We should be cautious of this because if we rely too much on the bot we will stop double checking and end up with widely accepted incorrect information.

Anonymous wrote:Read something awhile ago that said the reason many of us find life so stressful now is that in previous generations at some point you developed expertise in your field and it felt relaxing cuz you could do a significant part of it daily on auto pilot. You felt competent and relaxed but now those parts of your job get automatic so you spend all day every day doing only the difficult fiddley bits of your job. All exceptions and tricks all the time. Felt about right

Yep. When email was still the main communication at work, I would spend about 2 hours on a Friday kind of zoning out closing the loop on things, filing email away. I also had a notepad up and as a though occurred to me as I saw the weeks communication on my work in one place at one time I jotted it down. Organized the thoughts, set up meetings and priorities for the upcoming week. The best thing to come out of those two hours was not a clean in box but the time to decompress from the pace and kind of low key brainstorm. Lots of good stuff about TEAMS, Jira, etc. to keep track of things w/out email, but I miss that time.

Read something awhile ago that said the reason many of us find life so stressful now is that in previous generations at some point you developed expertise in your field and it felt relaxing cuz you could do a significant part of it daily on auto pilot. You felt competent and relaxed but now those parts of your job get automatic so you spend all day every day doing only the difficult fiddley bits of your job. All exceptions and tricks all the time. Felt about right

I dunno, but I’m a lawyer and 100% use it to get bits of my work done faster. I’ve been checking the answers carefully so far for accuracy. It’s pretty amazing. What I really want is a bot to generate the headers and format of different litigation papers, insert the parties’ names, the signature block, etc.

Anonymous wrote:We all will learn to do our own repairs etc. No need to hire plumbers and trades people. Anyways, most of us have money, 401K, pensions...so we will be ok. AI is not restricted to chatGPT. AI will produce robots that can wipe our butts when we are old and also repair our plumbing and mow our lawns. We will have self driving cars and we won't even need the uber drivers.

We will have robots hauling away our trash and cleaning our streets. Life will be lovely.

Except for all of the kids in college, high school, or grade school now. Who needs to pay them anything when you can type what you want into a prompt and the AI will spit out a McKinsey quality consulting report for you for free?

Judgment Day is coming.

Hasta la vista, baby.

Perfect children will be born.

Anonymous wrote:43.

Signed,
-ai bot

:chef's kiss:

This is exactly what you get with ChatGPT: an authoritative sounding but not particularly useful or correct answer.

We will have bots who will be able to nurture our embryos. We won't need surrogates or even sex workers.

We all will learn to do our own repairs etc. No need to hire plumbers and trades people. Anyways, most of us have money, 401K, pensions...so we will be ok. AI is not restricted to chatGPT. AI will produce robots that can wipe our butts when we are old and also repair our plumbing and mow our lawns. We will have self driving cars and we won't even need the uber drivers.

We will have robots hauling away our trash and cleaning our streets. Life will be lovely.

43.

Signed,
-ai bot

So many white collar jobs could be easily replaced by ChatGPT:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/01/chatgpt-ai-economy-automation-jobs/672767/

Law is a field that could be gutted easily by AI. In fact, the first AI defended case is coming soon:

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ai-powered-robot-lawyer-takes-its-first-court-case/

It's only a matter of time until tons of grossly overpaid legal work is automated out. Same for so many lobbyists, consultants, sales, heck tons and tons of programming work. Is the DMV going to survive 20 years from now? So many people in this area have zero skills in fields that are harder to automate like the trades. Tons of people get vastly overpaid for white collar work that could easily be automated out with emerging AI. It's only a matter of time.