Is AI Actually Useful?

"According to McKinsey, generative AI could enable the automation of up to 70 percent of business activities, across almost all occupations, between now and 2030."

"They argue that AI is likely to affect hours, tasks, and responsibilities for workers across wage rates and educational backgrounds, but that it will have an especially profound effect on professions traditionally requiring higher levels of education, whose work has been less affected by automation in the past."

"the fact that the outputs are high quality – but possibly generic implies that human generated ideas might stand out from the crowd in the future due to their distinctiveness."

"According to McKinsey, generative AI could enable the automation of up to 70 percent of business activities, across almost all occupations, between now and 2030."

"They argue that AI is likely to affect hours, tasks, and responsibilities for workers across wage rates and educational backgrounds, but that it will have an especially profound effect on professions traditionally requiring higher levels of education, whose work has been less affected by automation in the past."

"These models are likely to change the way knowledge workers work in the coming years, not unlike when desktop computers appeared on office desks thirty or more years ago."

"The significant effect on brainstorming type tasks seen in this study implies that AI will be used for this type of task going forward, but the fact that the outputs are high quality – but possibly generic implies that human generated ideas might stand out from the crowd in the future due to their distinctiveness."

"I don’t believe that human effort will become obsolete in the future."