Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 25: An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job, January 22 2024
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Feb 1, 2024 The hosts debunk claims that GPTs can replace human workers and critique papers on GPTs as general purpose technologies. They express skepticism about the potential impact of AI on economic growth and discuss the correlation between AI mentions and corporate expenditure. The value of AI in performing administrative tasks is explored, with humorous examples. The use of AI in ebooks and translation services is discussed, including the negative impact of AI-generated voices on language learning platforms.
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AI Job Replacement Hype Exaggerated
- AI hype exaggerates LLMs as universal job replacers, claiming they will take all our jobs cheaply and worse. - Reality shows vast exaggeration; claims of LLMs as general purpose technologies lack grounded evidence.
OpenAI's Flawed Exposure Ratings
- OpenAI's method has human annotators and GPT-4 itself rate job task exposure to LLM automation. - This approach is subjective and biased, especially as annotators all work at OpenAI, questioning validity.
Arbitrary 50% Productivity Threshold
- The exposure rubric defines automation impact as a 50%+ time reduction in tasks with maintained quality. - This 50% threshold is arbitrary, chosen for ease and likely overestimates realistic real-world productivity gains.