Mojo Request I'm not trying to depress you, it's just that if you're still thinking of AI as "glorified Google search", then you're really not keeping up with this

smurfco said:
I hope this is the case, and I hope I'm not coming off as an AI cheerleader here. I do appreciate the efficiency and drudgery-reduction it has brought to my job, but on the balance I'm very scared of the near-term implications of the speed at which this is improving combined with the hunger by companies to maximize profits. Why hire a team of coders when "AI can do it" for a fraction of the price - and unlike a year or two ago, AI actually can do it at least as good as that team of coders, if not better? "Well they can train for other jobs" - which ones? The number of industries this is going to impact beyond computer programming in the next few years is going to be very large...

It really sucks and I (and other friends of mine who are more tech-adjacent in their jobs than I am) are literally losing sleep over it. I get the comparison to earlier technologies / apps / platforms, but this seems inherently different to me at a very foundational level. I would love to be proven wrong...
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What we need is a very big wrench that we can throw into the gears of a very big data center. Or a very large guillotine.
 
smurfco said:
It really sucks and I (and other friends of mine who are more tech-adjacent in their jobs than I am) are literally losing sleep over it. I get the comparison to earlier technologies / apps / platforms, but this seems inherently different to me at a very foundational level. I would love to be proven wrong...
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I think it will be closer to industrialization than, say, iTunes.
 
Predictions are usually wrong or very wrong. This one is seriously oversold or a force that you won't be able to avoid. I'm impressed by the technology and if it improves at the current rate it will be unavoidable very soon.
I'm glad I'm retired. If not I would be thinking about a job shift to something implimenting AI.

When email was brand new I had a VP of R&D boss who said email was stupid and not going to last. He had his admin assistant print all his emails. He would hand write a reply then have it typed back into email. What an idiot. Also who promotes a proud Luddite to the head of technolgy development?
 
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