Hah. ooh good one. What a clever snarky joke you have made. An epic burn if you will. well done.

I see Doctorow’s post has summoned an army of AI dweebs, so I will leave you to your witticisms.

I dont understand. That seems like a perfectly reasonable question.

If gen AI has saved you a heap of time, how do you now use that time that was saved?

It’s a response but when provided as an answer to the question “is AI a net benefit to society” then it’s a “no”.

But how do you spend the time you saved?

Because they’re not really successes.

No one here is saying AI has reduce their workload so now they spend half their time catching butterflies.

The answers are all saying that AI has automated some mundane task that wasn’t particularly important, and now they can spend their time doing something more interesting.

Is the changes to their role, multiplied by millions of employees, actually better for humanity or society?

In a way, this is what Doctorow is arguing: where is the data showing the productivity gains.

My follow up question is, how are these productivity gains being used, if they exist.

I’m happy for you but isn’t really an answer.

This is another answer that misunderstands my question. It’s changed your job but has it improved the quality of life of the public served by your office ?

That doesn’t really answer my question. It’s changed your job, but has it improved your customers quality of life?

I’m not necessarily suggesting Doctorow is correct with this assertion, but on a macro scale what productivity gains will generate AI provide?

Yes there’s a few skills it’s good at coding, medical research, and image recognition being a few.

The genuine question is: has this improved everyone’s quality of life?