IMF Tells Us Future of Work Will Hurt

Or, a title that isn't editorialized, would be: "Gen-AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work"

A fun exercise would be to look up economists&#x27; predictions about AI and the future of work from the past decade and compare with the status quo. I&#x27;d be surprised if many (any?) papers (prior to the release of DALL-E and GPT-3 open beta) had programming and graphic arts high up on the list of vocations facing imminent significant automation.<p>More generally, I find it hard to trust such studies if they don&#x27;t attempt at least some sort of backtest of their methodology, which this one does not appear to do.

I’m very ignorant when it comes to economics and it’s reputable players. Is the IMF considered to historically be an accurate source of predictions?

At this point my main motivation to survive the next decades is to be able to watch the whole thing spiral out of control. Society is composed of three types of people on this subject: the ignorant, the deluded and the realist.<p>The ignorant will face horrors beyond his comprehension. The deluded kind thinks technology will benefit his estate, like those in the past that argued that by year 2000 man would only need to work 1h per week because &quot;technology&quot;. The realist knows technology is a moving train that will leave people behind to starve. Because if you don&#x27;t have any &quot;money shells&quot; then you don&#x27;t get to enjoy any technology, you loser.