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> But the average plumber or electrician benefits too. In minutes they can become an expert into some tech they never touched before.

No one “becomes an expert in minutes” at anything more complex than tic-tac-toe, that’s just absurd. If you don’t understand the thing without needing a chatbot, you’re not an expert.

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To add to that, I don’t think many employers will be happy about their legal exposure to inadequate training and supervision when things go wrong if this is the sort of training people are resorting to. Especially if insurers are excluding coverage for losses arising from the use of generative AI, as seems to be happening.

Stupid post by him TBH.

Electricians etc want to generate more income. They dont want to start building their own apps - someone else will take care of that.

Its jarring how bad some posts are on here. But then again, that's why most are employees not the employer.

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