Andrew Yangs Sicht auf die Folgen von AI: The End of the Office
https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
Andrew Yangs Sicht auf die Folgen von AI: The End of the Office
https://blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-the-office
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Who cares what this grifter has to say? He has no real expertise in the field here. His only interest over the past ten some odd years has been inserting himself into national conversations in order to grow the Andrew Yang^TM brand.
Andrew Yang posits imminent and significant displacement in much white collar work resulting from the accelerating advances in AI, citing Claude’s Co-work as one example of the latter. I believe Yang is one of the more level-headed observers, so I don’t think there’s intentional hype in his opinion.
What with employers walking back work from home because the commercial real estate industry desperately needs them to, you’d think they would be making a huge stink on any potential mass replacement of office jobs with automation.
Unless those commercial landlords have big plans to turn empty offices into AI data centers…
Maybe let the various conflicting lobbyists fight it out in cage matches, get some entertainment out of the mess
It won’t happen in 12 to 18 months and it won’t happen that quickly.
The technology’s not ready yet. You can’t trust it. It still hallucinates and makes stuff up. It’s useful alright but that’s it.
It will happen gradually over 5 years at least.
But there’s a labour shortage so that will absorb any AI productivity gains. Also AI will create new jobs and industries.
Lots of products and services are elastic anyway. So demand will just rise.
Right now we’re in a transition phase. Wait and see.
I think the 2030s will be the decade of huge change as you’ve convergence of AI, self driving, robotics, renewables etc…
The cost of everything will drop.
What should have happened after the pandemic, commercial real estate should have had some sort of easy path to becoming residential units.
Solves the limited housing issues and cost of homes. Studies show that workers are substantially more productive working remotely. And the biggest benefit is that it cuts down traffic, which also brings about more smog
The pic looks a bit like my office on the days I go in now. Never mind AI it already has an end of days feel.
How has this guy seemingly made an entire career out of hopping on whatever bandwagon is the style at the time, uncritically repeating whatever the popular narrative is, and somehow getting praised for it.
My greatest fear is that we become a society of high volume, low diversity, „good enough“ slop output. We know a few things:
1. There is an inverse relationship between text length and specificity. The more specific, the more detail needs to be included.
2. We know that these systems struggle with large scale context
3. We know that these systems tend towards low diversity outputs. You ask it to perform a task, and you’re amazed! But then you start to notice the outputs all kind of look the same. It flattens all channels of communication.
4. It will intensify work, requiring more and more output from people
4. It will drive up volume and drive down innovation, as new ideas require slow and careful consideration and these systems simply can’t innovate like humans can.
Go shoot some more whipped cream in your voter’s mouths lmao. Please cite all the claims you are making if you want people to take you seriously.
Pss disregard this post, Andrew Yang wrote it because he wants to sell you AI, and it’s clear he was paid by the big techs to do it. It was written with GenAI too,which invalidates everything /s
The end of office work means the end of office workers and thus the end of the need for all those big, expensive towers they were worried about losing their value a couple of years ago. When people can’t afford the services the remaining places provide, none of the big cities will be able to sustain themselves without those kinds of rents and taxes. They’ll fall into chaos. These libertarian technofeudal lords once again haven’t thought anything through.
For me, The Office ended with season 7, when Michael left.