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Why AI won’t take my job
The technology is no match for felt experience in the real world.
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As someone who had rarely used AI, the writer was amazed by how much preparation is required just to get ChatGPT to understand the basics.
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Rana Foroohar
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I’m not an early adopter of new technologies but I am a self-interested economic actor. I’m also under a tight deadline on my next book project. So, I decided to use this opportunity to see how much – or how little – artificial intelligence (AI) could do for me as an author.
Could I outsource some of my book writing to AI? Would anyone notice the difference? The short answer is no, I can’t, and yes, they absolutely would.
