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> I don't understand why big corporations find it so hard to see that the real potential in AI is usually in augmenting, not _replacing_, human labor

IMHO because now I have twice as much work: knowing the problem domain and reviewing someone else's contribution. It's like code review 24/7 from untrusted contributors: it requires more focus than just trying to understand and author the original contribution



Not entirely like that; it's mostly fixing small edge cases when the bulk of the work has been done correctly. Think about e.g. automatic background removal from photos: most of the time you only need to introduce small corrections, instead of painstakingly tracing shapes by hand. But without these corrections the results are often slightly but visibly incorrect.


> Not entirely like that; it's mostly fixing small edge cases when the bulk of the work has been done correctly

Well, I guess one can just continue to prompt any such AI over and over "have you done it correctly? No? Then try harder"

I recognize that my experiences and expectations from AI differ from seemingly the vast majority of users who get benefit from it. I'm glad for them, but I don't ever want to opt-in to having "AI assistance" because with the current state of the art it generates more work for me than value in my life




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