Netflix has a great movie right now, Subservience. I was depressed after the first 15 mins where we see a bunch of construction workers and tradesmen fired and replaced by robots with no indication or idea of what they’re supposed to do afterwards, just replaced, bye, don’t care if you survive. They’re starting with programmers, white collar jobs like accounting, BI, tech support. Then they’ll move onto skilled trades. Subservience doesn’t sound so far fetched, so how long do we have?
Software “passing” a written test where it has been fed all of the answers is not that impressive to me, except from a programming standpoint. From the intelligence standpoint, not so much. Just because it can pass the bar doesn’t make it lawyer worthy. This software cannot think, and that is ultimately what you pay a lawyer to do. None of this software is coming up with new thoughts, it’s just regurgitating what it has been fed.