Further dispatches from the front in the war of AI evolution vs. human devolution. And this article is almost a year old, which is 5 minutes in AI time. One can only imagine the progression in this field since then.
I remember the smug attitude white collar professionals had back in the mechanical age of my youth as automation was eating the blue-collar line worker jobs alive. It brought Detroit from being the highest per capita income city in the USA in its heyday to its knees when I lived there. I spoke with a lot of old-time auto workers about the glory days in the Big D. Now the professional classes have an invitation to the extinction party.
I have brought up before how anybody of average intelligence could probably successfully battle a minor civil court case with all the information available on the web. I would imagine any Chatbot program could churn out legal briefs of sufficient quality too, as so much legal writing is pretty technical and dry anyway. Jury trials are disappearing fast also, so slick Perry Mason style attorneys are not the valued asset they used to be.
With robots doing surgery and providing bedside manner and companionship to the elderly, I can see them replacing doctors down the line fairly soon. A doctor these days is pretty much just as good as the latest information he keeps up on, and that information is changing at a faster pace, and AI doesn't take golfing and ski vacations. I like this one quote from the article: "The authors notice GPT-4 still makes things up when it doesn't quite know what to do." AI really is getting human!
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