AGI Will Not Take All Our Jobs. But it will change all our jobs | by Russell Lim | Predict | Dec, 2023 – Medium

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The Wikipedia page for Artificial General Intelligence describes AGI as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable tasks.

Kinda scary right?

If AGI can do our jobs better than we can, wouldnt we all be left out in the cold lining up for government handouts?

I claim that we will not.

Let me explain why, starting from my own experience

Im a high school mathematics teacher. I spend my working hours helping students learn algebra, calculus, statistics etc. Even todays best AI models are currently pretty at math, but I know they will improve fast. To the point where they can not only solve mathematical problems better than I can, but also explain concepts and respond to questions to help students learn.

When that day comes, will I be out of a job?

One of the things I do each year, separate from my regular teaching role, is mark the statewide final exams. The curriculum board pays qualified teachers to mark the exams, as we sometimes need to use our experience and professional judgement to make assessment decisions.

But to be honest, 90% of the assessment role is simple right vs wrong marking that a computer with decent handwriting recognition could do 100 times faster than me. Every year for the last 5 years I have thought a machine should be doing this, but year after year they keep on employing us.

Now, I have no doubt that the time will come when AI is used to mark the majority of student responses, and a team of 100 assessors is reduced to a team of 10 who deal only with subtleties and edge cases that actually require human expertise.

But will the same happen for the teaching profession as a whole?

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AGI Will Not Take All Our Jobs. But it will change all our jobs | by Russell Lim | Predict | Dec, 2023 - Medium