Nasim Nicholas Taleb, a philosopher, mathematician and author of the famous book Strong Black, has an ieresting opinion about artificial ielligence. He believes that artificial ielligence threatens all modern jobs of the 20th ceury. In other words, if your job didn’t exist in 1900, it probably will (or will be done by artificial ielligence) soon. But bakers, philosophers and athletes will remain.
Nasim Nicholas Taleb says in a new tweet: “Every job inveed in the 20th ceury is threatened by artificial ielligence.” We know that the 20th ceury was the era of the emergence of large companies, bureaucracy and various layers of manageme. Careers such as manager consulta, stock market data analyst, office clerk, data ery officer and even many accouing and legal branches were born in this period.
These tasks usually involve transferring information, filling out forms, and following a set of fixed algorithms. Exactly what big language models like ChatGPT are designed to do. In other words, these jobs can be considered “artificial” and the best person who can do them is artificial ielligence.
Nasim Nicholas Taleb’s opinion about artificial ielligence
There is a famous theory called “Lindy effect” which says that the longer an idea or business lives, the more likely it will survive in the future. So, when an emerging phenomenon like artificial ielligence arrives, first those jobs that have a shorter lifespan are more at risk. Older jobs, on the other hand, are unlikely to be replaced as easily.
AI can’t fix your sink, can’t care for a patie with true compassion, and can’t taste flavors like a chef. But artificial ielligence can write a company’s annual report in a few seconds; What a 20th ceury employee spends time doing those days. So maybe in order to survive in the age of artificial ielligence, it is necessary to return to the roots. In this era, jobs that require moral judgme, physical presence, real risk-taking, and creativity will become valuable.
