Doug Wilson
2 min readJul 19, 2023

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"AI is Killing Remote Work"

NO. IT'S. F*CKING. NOT.

Not one fact or statistic to support any of what you claim. Not one. Just opinion and conjecture.

Yes, big companies have ASKED employees to come back. Some have returned; most have not.

Yet you claim that "They will all come back of their own volition" and blame "the rise of General Artificial Intelligence". Why? How?

The mind (if switched to the ON position) boggles. Where to start?

Where's the causality? Generative AI tools exist; therefore, we must all return to the office? Complete and utter nonsense. These tools can be (and for the most part ARE BEING) used ... from home.

And with the rise of digital nomad-ism, how can remote work be dead?

" ... it [collaboration, leadership, creativity, brainstorming, etc] can only happen organically. 100% false. I see this claim entirely disproved every Monday through Friday.

So much of our social interaction these days occurs through digital channels (text messages, Instagram, TikTok, etc) that people choose and successfully present their personalities virtually. Why do you believe this is impossible in a work context with functionally similar tools like Slack, etc?

Oh, and Generative AI like ChatGPT, etc is not "General AI".

The term you seem to be looking for is Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and AGI is not rising or even remotely visible on the horizon.

Today's (and tomorrow's) generative AI tools are examples of Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) or "weak" AI. They can assist people with narrowly-defined sets of specific tasks.

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) or "strong" AI may one day think and make decisions like us. But that assumes we haven't turned our world into a cinder in the next 50 - 100 years.

Respectfully, you've shown that you have ZERO idea what you're talking about. You should stop.

Muting this fear-mongering, time-wasting nonsense.

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Doug Wilson
Doug Wilson

Written by Doug Wilson

Doug Wilson is an experienced software application architect, music lover, problem solver, former film/video editor, philologist, and father of four.

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