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If it can replace programmers, why wouldn't it be able to replace therapists?


There's several famous examples of people expecting a problem to be AGI-hard — that is, solving it is equivalent to solving general intelligence[0] — only for someone to make an AI which can do that without being able to do everything else:

• Fluent natural conversation

• Translation

• Go

• Chess

So perhaps we'll get an AI that makes the profession of "programmer" go the same way as the profession of "computer" before, after, or simultaneously with, an AI that does this to the profession of "therapist".

[0] https://www.latent.space/p/agi-hard




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