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Really difficult to agree with this given the pace at which LLMs are improving. LLMs are disruptive in that they enable a form of outsourcing. Outsourcing to t
by ftio 4y ago
Really difficult to agree with this given the pace at which LLMs are improving.
LLMs are disruptive in that they enable a form of outsourcing. Outsourcing to the the lowest-cost region in the world, inside a computer. Outsourcing to tireless, ever-improving, highly-intelligent machine workers. Workers that will eventually have a variety of specialized and/or general skills, depending on what they're trained for.
Imagine "offshoring" (AIshoring?) for 1% of the cost of a human employee to a machine with zero time off, zero time zone separation, zero cultural or communication barriers, and with 100% access to all of your corporate documentation, goals, and other context.
Imagine that these "offshore" AI workers only improve every year.
This time, it really is different.
- juujian 4y agoLabor cost really isn't the factor in offshoring we think it is. Servers for AI are not free, and workers in India are really cheap, similarly to how minimum wage workers in the US are really cheap compared to robots that need constant care and maintenance. But that cost isn't even the main factor. The main cost is communication, and if you can actually get exactly what you want. That is the main challenge to offshoring, which settles many companies with technical debt where it isn't clear whether they benefit at the end at all. So if AI competes with offshoring, I don't know if that is a great value proposition.