'Why Do Lawyers Make More Than Architects'? I've asked myself this question a bunch of times, and never really found a satisfactory answer. So I decided to ask ChatGPT, and see what it 'thought.' ChatGPT got the answer wholly wrong, but it got it wrong in the way that society at large gets it wrong, I think. And in all that wrongness, maybe it unintentionally augured close to the real answer. It was an illuminating experiment to run, and hopefully a humorous story to tell. I tell all in this article for Common Edge Collaborative
“It was tempting to come away from the exercise with a deep suspicion about ChatGPT’s ability to reason, but I don’t think that’s it.
I think maybe I was just asking it to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense. All that it is programmed to do is to fashion responses that an informed, competent human would offer. And why would any rational human go through more training, more risk, and more work in order to earn less? Why would any rational human be so passionate about their work product and its value, and then devalue the labor that created the product?
I had given it an impossible circle to square. Architecture’s approach to its own value proposition violates basic laws of risk and reward, supply and demand, etc., so much so that even a genius-level A.I. can’t make heads or tails of it. So maybe we’re the ones who are reasoning backward.”
Check out the article here