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As an electrical engineer I'm reasonably confident my job is a very long way from danger. Analog electronics never made their way to internet forums at scale, and for humans the only real reference you need is an old book called the art of electronics. AI needs a ton of training data to be good, and outside of code and potentially law, I just don't see what other fields have sufficient training data.
Maybe I'm a fool, but I'm a lawyer and I feel very safe. Everything I've seen so far is very bad, and in ways that don't make me think it can get better. "next word prediction" is just not the right avenue to do legal analysis haha. It can do a fair approximation sometimes, but I think that's honestly more dangerous because I've seen LLMs say things that look plausible but definitely don't work. When I've seen it, I've been able to jump in and stop catastrophic mistakes...but how many people are just going for it without talking to a lawyer? Gonna make a lot of work for lawyers to fix all that lol.
same here. AI doing machine design? a company demo'd just AI drawing creation for us a while ago, and it could barely do that. how the fuck is an LLM going to fit together a few hundred custom made parts in a way that can be assembled, maintained, function properly, be manufactured without excessive cost, etc
I have yet to see AI perform a task effectively once you look deeper than the surface.
AI lowers the barrier to entry for people to do things. that doesn't mean it's going to do them better than professionals.
Yes! AI has been used to help with minimizing circuit designs and layouts for decades. It weirdly upsets me that AI has become synonymous with specifically LLMs, when the reality is that there are many different types of AI that has been an active field for years. Idk, maybe I'm just old and grumpy because I did my master's thesis on AI before the rise of LLMs and a lot of modern ML implementations.
Yeah, I am not here to argue with "sometimes good enough is good enough." Like...if you've got a raspberry pi making your garden spray water to the beat of "flight of the bumblebee" or some shit, and an LLM helped you do that without knowing anything about code....that's cool I guess. But when people actually need stuff to work and are willing to pay for it, I just don't see this tool ever getting to that level.
I mean, maybe the LLM could at least file documents on time and at least attempt to do what it, on record, promises it will because that seems to be the biggest problem with all the lawyers here in Belgium 😂
My girlfriend's case was fucked because the lawyer, with around 7 reminders and my girlfriend pre-writing the whole document, still didn't file the document on time and also not "officially signed", thus shifting the entire burden of proof from her former employer to her. Then lying about it for a year. Now we know why she pushed for a very very bad settlement so hard. (Like, the company could burn your house down and murder your children and you still would be sued into bankruptcy if you said anything bad against them, with about 10% of the legally required compensation, type bad)
Then a different law firm hired to clean up her mess is doing their best in that case, but also got hired to fight the bullshit invoices from the other lawyer's "work" (she billed about 5x the hours she possibly could have done). And just never filed against the other lawyer so now that is very very late after 3 reminders (they literally have to send one email) and we might have to pay thousands of euros out of pocket.
Sorry, end rant, but at this point using an LLM would have been more useful than either of the law firms. Plus we had to compile all of the documents and pretty much write the entire thing (and the lawyers just slap their names on it) anyway 😂
That sucks man, I'm sorry to hear about that. Sounds like everyone's malpractice insurer should be paying out big time (missing a deadline like that is practically always negligence).
Another reason to prefer a lawyer though...nobody to sue when the LLM misses a deadline! That said, I don't doubt an LLM can be helpful to a self-represented party if the court has really good documentation. The LLM could probably explain clearly how to get documents filed and the like. Of course...if the court has really good documentation, a human being could also just read it and get it done.
Also true when troubleshooting technical problems.
If you’re a complete noob and you have super simple tech problems, an LLM might occasionally help you out. If you have complex problems, an LLM will confidently send you on a wild goose chase. If you’re a noob, you won’t know until you’ve already spent a lot of time banging your head against the wall. ~(Don’t ask me how I know.)~ It takes experience to notice that the output is completely useless or even harmful.
This weekend i decided to adapt an old analog phone i thrifted, so that i could use it as a microphone on stage. Last time i soldered a resistor was a long ass time ago during the 20th century so i had to rely on Claude to help me every step along the way, including designing the overall circuit, telling me the exact components i needed to buy and how to assemble them.
It was a lot of fun and we did a piss poor job of it but it worked ! And we already have ideas for improving it in V2. Granted it was a very simple design but it felt like a barrier was finally coming down. I've been having this kind of ideas for ages but i never really committed to any of them, and now i know that i can knock one out of the park in a few hours of focus, it's great.
I don't think it's threatening your job as a professional's experience is tough to replace, but expect to see a lot of vibe-soldered side projects in the coming years. Probably a bunch of house fires too hehe...
ME here. I couldn’t care less about it…outside of the jobs that will be lost (erroneously or not).
The art of electronics and the student book with the exercises if you can find it.