Microsoft AI CEO: Most White-Collar Jobs Will be "Automated by AI" Within Ten Years
I Mean, Within Twelve to Eighteen Months

Does that mean the jobs will be eliminated?

He doesn't say that. He says they'll be "automated by AI." Does that mean workers will be completely replaced, or that one worker can use AI to do the job of five, because so much of the task is being done by AI?

I think it means the latter -- but that means that there will be a huge loss of jobs among white collar workers.

We live in interesting times, unfortunately.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says AI will reach "human-level performance" in white-collar work.

He predicts most tasks in that field can be automated within the next 12 to 18 months.

Several leaders in the AI industry have warned of impending mass job replacement.

Microsoft's AI CEO is joining a chorus of executives who say they anticipate widespread job automation driven by artificial intelligence.

Mustafa Suleyman, the Microsoft AI chief, said in an interview with the Financial Times that he predicts most, if not every, task in white-collar fields will be automated by AI within the next year or year and a half.

"I think that we're going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks," Suleyman said in the interview that was published Wednesday. "So white-collar work, where you're sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person -- most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months."

The CEO said the trend is already observable in software engineering, in which employees are using "AI-assisted coding for the vast majority of their code production."

"It's a quite different relationship to the technology, and that's happened in the last six months," he said.

Scary. I read a book five years ago that seemed pretty fanciful. It made exactly this prediction. It said that people who currently have prestigious, high-paying, "safe" jobs had better diversify into areas where AI is less likely to displace them because anything AI can do, it will do.

It keeps on coming:

AI set to make medical scan reports twice as easy to understand for patients

by University of Sheffield

Artificial intelligence could soon help patients make sense of complex medical scan results, making them far easier to understand without losing clinical accuracy, a major new study by the University of Sheffield suggests. The research found that when radiology reports for X-Rays, CT and MRI scans were rewritten using advanced AI systems such as ChatGPT, patients found them almost twice as easy to understand compared with the original versions.

Analysis showed that the reading level dropped from "university level" to one more closely aligned with the comprehension of a school pupil aged 11--13.

I don't know if I'm ready to trust AI with anything important. On the twenty questions I've asked it, it was flat-out wrong about half the time.

On the other hand: Hollywood is doomed.

WDW_Pro: Hollywood stocks fall on fears that AI will wipe out the industry.

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