> There are a lot of white-collar jobs where LLMs do more harm than good because a 1/4 hallucination rate means you waste too much time on wild goose chases. I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results - I “kicked the tires” with some AI research and was very impressed. But when I tried to find papers on animal cognition...
This is less a question of which jobs benefit from AI in general and which don't than it is a question of tasks and specific tools.
ChatGPT is not a search engine, so if you're looking for existing documents it's a very bad choice. But I've found myself using Perplexity—an LLM-powered search engine—more and more often because it reliably turns up results that Google fails to turn up.
I suspect Perplexity is still also the wrong tool for scholarly articles, but that's not a fundamental limitation of the tech, it's just a question of the focus of the tools so far.
This is less a question of which jobs benefit from AI in general and which don't than it is a question of tasks and specific tools.
ChatGPT is not a search engine, so if you're looking for existing documents it's a very bad choice. But I've found myself using Perplexity—an LLM-powered search engine—more and more often because it reliably turns up results that Google fails to turn up.
I suspect Perplexity is still also the wrong tool for scholarly articles, but that's not a fundamental limitation of the tech, it's just a question of the focus of the tools so far.