[ExI] Star employees benefit less from AI

[William Flynn Wallace]

Perhaps smarter AIs can help people find jobs that they are actually
interested in doing.  Few people go into the job market with a good set of
personality and intelligence tests results so hirers can fit job to
person.  That needs to change.   bill w

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 11:05 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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