re: People talking about AI “taking over” always make me laugh.

The “AI is actually just dumb” people are just as ridiculous as the “it’s the end of the world” people. I mean..

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AI is just a stats program

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..really? What does this even mean?

It reminds me of the time that someone around here said that GPT is just a search engine. Sounds plausible I guess.. if you ignore the fact that it’s actually incapable of searching the internet for information when you enter a query.

The truth of the matter is that AI (particularly generative AI) is currently advancing at a breakneck speed. I don’t think we are about to all lose our jobs next week, but I do think we are at the beginning of an AI revolution that will significantly change many, if not most, industries.

To me the question at this point is not whether AI with the capability to displace human jobs will be created. I think the bigger question is what the compute costs will be. Widespread implementation of AI for day-to-day tasks will use an enormous amount of computational resources. Which means job creation in the form of building/maintaining data centers, communications, etc.. hell we are already seeing it today. I think some jobs will lose a lot of demand due to productivity increases, but that also means additional jobs being created elsewhere.