I do some electrical drafting work for construction and throw basic tasks at LLMs.
I gave it a shitty harness and it almost 1 shotted laying out outlets in a room based on a shitty pdf. I think if I gave it better control it could do a huge portion of my coworkers jobs very soon
"AI could never replace the creativity of a human"
"Ok, I guess it could wipe out the economic demand for digital art, but it could never do all the autonomous tasks of a project manager"
"Ok, I guess it could automate most of that away but there will always be a need for a human engineer to steer it and deal with the nuances of code"
"Ok, well it could never automate blue collar work, how is it gonna wrench a pipe it doesn't have hands"
The goalposts will continue to move until we have no idea if the comments are real anymore.
Remember when the Turing test was a thing? No one seems to remember it was considered serious in 2020
Can you give an example of the sort of harness you used for that? Would love to play around with it