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Established Culture, work & education Analysis 4d ago
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NYT essay AI won't steal jobs

Opinion | Why A.I. Won’t Steal All Our Jobs - The New York Times

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Eugene Vinitsky Ted Underwood Jeffrey P. Bigham zeynep tufekci Eileen Clancy 🧿 Daniel Solove Neil Turkewitz samuel mehr +4

“Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...”

“usually a fan of Zeynep's accounts, but AI will get better and better at customer service until it's at least as good as humans, … a big part of that will be systems engineering, including architectures that enable one AI interaction to share with the next …”

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Eugene Vinitsky: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
Eugene Vinitsky: The only prompting was to tell the model that it was possible to check that links were correct
Ted Underwood: Out of curiosity I had Fable write a response to the article about the weaknesses of LLMs: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o... It's uh, pretty good. claude.ai/code/artifac...
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Established Culture, work & education Signal 11d ago

Ai white collar jobs

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Jeffrey P. Bigham

“it's not like Mercor is the first to do this, but interesting that AI companies hiring experts is (finally) getting attention :: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...”

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Jeffrey P. Bigham: end of an era. the lesson one should not take from this is that human annotation/labeling is over, but the players have changed. scale, surge, companies that work at larger scale, have taken over.
Jeffrey P. Bigham: it's always been a little bit odd how little amazon invested in making mturk good, yet they kept it around. the lore was something about how they were keeping it in case it became useful.
Long Lasting Mascot: Indeed. My first project in grad school involved getting turkers to annotate data for us. The results were not good, but I was never sure if it was our instructions or their abilities.
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Mark Riedl Jeffrey P. Bigham
Jeffrey P. Bigham: an underappreciated thing is that AI-written (or deeply rewritten) text is better than most people's actual writing. not everyone, and mostly because most people aren't that good at writing. and, m…
Mark Riedl: Thinking... 23s It's not that everyone is bad at writing--it's just that AI has become loadbearing for many. Let's delve in. Let me know if you are interested in learning more about AI writing or n…
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