[ExI] Star employees benefit less from AI

[Adrian Tymes]

This may already be true for the lowest performers, but not for the top.

And...so far as I can tell, humans are capable of learning specific skills
much faster than AI - if the humans want to.

This means that those who care about a craft can use AI as a crutch until
they become better than AI.

The problem with that future is the large percentage of humans who simply
don't care about any particular useful craft.  They have a job because they
have to, not because there is anything useful they want to do.  They might
prefer to sit around all day getting drunk or otherwise pursuing
self-pleasure, with even the basic necessities of life viewed as unpleasant
chores.  Quite a number of them would care enough to make life for others
unpleasant if they could find a target - such as AI - to blame for their
less-than-stellar resulting fortunes.

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 7:48 AM Gadersd via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> I don’t think it will be long until
> human + AI <= AI
>
> Humans may turn out to be a major source of noise and bottlenecks.
>
> > On Sep 18, 2023, at 7:57 AM, BillK via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Bad news, star employees: You're not the ones who'll benefit the most
> from AI
> > Kai Xiang Teo   Sep 18, 2023,
> >
> > <
> https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-employees-lower-performers-most-impact-boston-consulting-group-2023-9?r=US&IR=T
> >
> >
> > Quote:
> > Consultants using AI completed tasks faster and produced
> > higher-quality results than those without, according to a new study.
> > The greatest gains were seen by below-average performers using AI, per
> > the study's authors.
> >
> > The greatest gains were seen by below-average performers using AI,
> > whose average performance improved by 43%.
> >
> > Their above-average counterparts only saw an average performance
> > increase of 17% from using AI.
> >
> > The study also found that those who used AI completed their tasks
> > faster and produced higher-quality results than those without access.
> > ------------------
> >
> > BillK
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