I asked this query here last week and got nearly 200 responses and were polarized in two camps

    The numbers are heavily under reported

    vs

    Do you honestly believe that most companies would openly admit they are replacing people with AI?   Publicly traded companies would in fact be bragging about this.

    I used ChatGPT to review the responses and summarize them, and picked the top ones from the forum. The top anecdotal Responses include:

    • My team uses chatgpt extensively. Mostly for code but all kinds of other stuff too. We’re hiring less people. We have a hiring freeze right now, and 8 people just got let go. My department is shrinking. Yet, productivity is up…hmm, wonder how that’s possible…?
    • Me + ChatGPT replaces like 3 or 4 of me from a couple years ago. And it’s better working this way too, far less stress pouring over documentation and it’s super rewarding to be so productive with such little effort.
    • It's a tool to produce boilerplate or check for details you missed, among other things. No one is relying on the code any more than you would for a junior dev, which is the role it is essentially replacing 
    • Customer service agents are mostly AI's these days that will route to a actual person if absolutely necessary. There are other jobs that are machine automation adjacent, like postal address identification that is almost entirely automated at this point.
    • Many, many industries are now hiring people at crap wages to train AI to do their jobs for them.
    • The managers I’ve talked to running teams in low level sales and customer support roles have mandated that their teams begin using AI to “make their workload more efficient”.
    • I would hire designers before for logos, designs, and images, not anymore. Same for writers and content creators, they are getting replaced.
    • Yeah my brother works for a video gaming website and he said knows people at other companies that have been laid off and replaced with AI writing the articles, then they just have a couple of editors that review and tweak them before they are published. 
    • A writer friend of mine used to ghostwrite memoirs. The company who hired him (and others) to do that is now using AI for most of it and only using humans to clean up what the AI has written.
    • I work for a hospital network doing EMR data management and reporting. We have been implementing AI to help remove a lot of manual processes in chart review mainly for billing purposes. We are certainly doing it to capture more revenue but it will also cost some people their jobs as we are automating the entire process. We have also created jobs to manage the AI. Certainly won't be a 1:1 though and more and more jobs will be eliminated and less created.

    TLDR; summary in a brief YT clip – Link to slides posted in YT

    https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1dhuyps/while_there_is_a_lot_of_buzz_about_aiml_impacting/

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