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AI will write the requirements. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if AI comes for high cost centers like programming and high information decision-making (the C-

AI will write the requirements. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if AI comes for high cost centers like programming and high information decision-making (the C-Suite) at roughly the same time. We could spend years in a lopsided state where groups of investors fund an AI that operates on an investment thesis, delivers commands to humans who manage physical labor in areas that have been tough to automate (like the remaining Amazon warehouse jobs), and handles on its own all of the work that would normally be done by office employees.

kmoser 4y ago
With any project, the first step is the customer describing their business needs. Analysts turn those requirements into a complete set of specs, then programmers write code that performs the specs. There's no way AI is going to take the place of the customer, since the AI doesn't know what the customer needs, nor will it take the place of the analyst since even the smartest AI can't deal with a customer who is unable to clearly articulate their requirements. Hence the need for human analysts. The AI might be able to help the programmer turn the specs into code (see Copilot) but it will always be hamstrung by not fully understanding (as a human would) the actual requirements.
- tasuki 4y ago
  With a sufficiently advanced and independent AI, the business need would be "make money", or perhaps hopefully "make money while obeying the laws, acting ethically, and doing something publicly beneficial".
gptadmirer 4y ago
I would love this to happen because finally I can have my own one man paramilitary industry like Tony Stark. Then I just need to procure the right assault weapons. Then I will be (at least my bunker will be) unstoppable. No need to hire mercenaries anymore. Maybe one day it will get even better, that I can have my own attack units like robot dogs/personal tanks equipped with insane amounts of assault weapons and javelins. Then I can mount an attack against anything. A person, an organization, a city, a small government. A true one man army, with AI controlling everything.
- imtringued 4y ago
  Ok but you will still be small fish compared to nuclear weapons.
- dinkumthinkum 4y ago
  I’m guessing this is a troll or are you suggesting you would be the only one with this AI? If it’s a troll then great because I think people are leaving their brains out if these conversations about AI / chatgpt.
dinkumthinkum 4y ago
I think people are making pretty wild assumptions. But, ok if the AIs are these as advanced then why would there be investiture funding AI, the AI systems in the world would be just be capable of solving any problem abs no investment. Why would there be investment? Presumably, anyone with access to an AI (and presumably “open AI” will exist), therefore anyone could easily have any conceivable software written in seconds (if that long). Furthermore, what would be the need for software as the AI would have taken all the jobs for needing software on the first place. Would it just be to run the farm equipment for our “post scarcity” whatever?

kmoser 4y ago

With any project, the first step is the customer describing their business needs. Analysts turn those requirements into a complete set of specs, then programmers write code that performs the specs. There's no way AI is going to take the place of the customer, since the AI doesn't know what the customer needs, nor will it take the place of the analyst since even the smartest AI can't deal with a customer who is unable to clearly articulate their requirements. Hence the need for human analysts. The AI might be able to help the programmer turn the specs into code (see Copilot) but it will always be hamstrung by not fully understanding (as a human would) the actual requirements.

tasuki 4y ago
With a sufficiently advanced and independent AI, the business need would be "make money", or perhaps hopefully "make money while obeying the laws, acting ethically, and doing something publicly beneficial".

gptadmirer 4y ago

I would love this to happen because finally I can have my own one man paramilitary industry like Tony Stark. Then I just need to procure the right assault weapons. Then I will be (at least my bunker will be) unstoppable. No need to hire mercenaries anymore. Maybe one day it will get even better, that I can have my own attack units like robot dogs/personal tanks equipped with insane amounts of assault weapons and javelins. Then I can mount an attack against anything. A person, an organization, a city, a small government. A true one man army, with AI controlling everything.

imtringued 4y ago
Ok but you will still be small fish compared to nuclear weapons.
dinkumthinkum 4y ago
I’m guessing this is a troll or are you suggesting you would be the only one with this AI? If it’s a troll then great because I think people are leaving their brains out if these conversations about AI / chatgpt.

dinkumthinkum 4y ago

I think people are making pretty wild assumptions. But, ok if the AIs are these as advanced then why would there be investiture funding AI, the AI systems in the world would be just be capable of solving any problem abs no investment. Why would there be investment? Presumably, anyone with access to an AI (and presumably “open AI” will exist), therefore anyone could easily have any conceivable software written in seconds (if that long). Furthermore, what would be the need for software as the AI would have taken all the jobs for needing software on the first place. Would it just be to run the farm equipment for our “post scarcity” whatever?