According to Goldman Sachs, AI will automate 37 per cent of architecture and engineering tasks. For Luddites, this means 37 per cent fewer engineering jobs, yet we number people know Pareto and his distribution and understand that 80 per cent of the work we do is worth 20 per cent of the total value of our output and that with the removal of nearly half of our loathed spam tasks, AI will actually mean we can do so much more cool stuff.
After getting over the wonder of AI writing broken limericks in the style of Edgar Allen Poe, the realisation is that AI creates spam. AI plays ‘consequences’ with the bell curve and pops out a spam cliché of the average hive mind.
However, ChatGPT, the AI sensation, is ushering in a new era. According to Goldman Sachs, 25 per cent of jobs are already on the block. This is surprising in a way because ChatGPT simply generates clever spam and amounts to a fabulous autocomplete generating spammy outputs packed with fluff and...