alt Hacker NewsYeah, I think it's at the level of self-driving Excel.
Now, Excel also makes mistakes while trying to get clever - remember the biologists who had to rename several genes to prevent Excel treating them as dates - but it's also a ubiquitous business tool. And you can combine them. But equally Excel hasn't replaced every white collar job.
In 90s the show Friends, Chandler Bing’s job is “statistical analysis and data reconfiguration” which is likely unfamiliar to you because it is gone!
This was a job to manually collate financial reports into aggregated sums to sent up the hierarchy to the next level up.
This is now a trivial BI query and doesn’t require manual processing by humans.
A bigger shift is that now I only see CEOs or at most CxOs with secretaries. Mobile phones and Outlook calendars have largely wiped out that profession.