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That's the thing I'm seeing with AI from people with careers directly related to intelligence. We keep raising the bar. First it was the the Turing test. AI ha
by corethree 3y ago
That's the thing I'm seeing with AI from people with careers directly related to intelligence.
We keep raising the bar. First it was the the Turing test. AI has practically Rocketed past that and now a lot of people think it's a useless metric.
Now it beats mba students. I guess the new bar is CS students.
When your occupation is tied to your career people have a lot of pride invested in it. So they become in denial. They think in terms of their own skill and whether or not the AI can best them in the skills they spent years honing.
Two things:
1. An MBA student is a high bar. Any form of human intelligence is a high bar. Stop blinding yourself.
2. All trend lines point to AI surpassing CS students as well. AI has improved significantly in the last decade. The next decade will only be more improvement.
- atonse 3y agoI have a CS degree and have worked for 20+ years and designed and architected pretty impactful systems. Yet when I had a conversation with chatGPT to do some architectural brainstorming, it was on par with, or better than most architectural discussions I’ve had with others in my career. Including discussing tradeoffs, UI features, order of developing them, etc. Sure you kind of have to know what to ask it. But it was the first moment for me where I realized even my job is at risk. So I agree that MBA students aren’t a high bar. It even does a decent job with software solutioning and architecture.
- corethree 3y ago>So I agree that MBA students aren’t a high bar. It even does a decent job with software solutioning and architecture. Architecture discussions are basically similar to qualitative and often hand wavy conjecture... it's no surprise LLMs excel at this. Ironically the industry has it backwards. They think "architecture" is some hyper advanced thing. It's actually far easier than coding. You have less primitives to work with and you can handwave shit and get things wrong all the time in discussions. The MBA bar is the same bar as software architecture discussions. Same arena, same level of hardness. The bar I'm more referring to is coding. LLMs have not quite matched us completely in that bar yet. But it's not far off.
- rmbyrro 3y ago> you kind of have to know what to ask it That's what's saving our jobs - for now.
- corethree 3y agoNah, it's the coding.
- rmbyrro 3y agoThat's true. GPT still can't code without supervision.
- inhumantsar 3y agoNeither can most engineers
- gumballindie 3y agoThe kind of engineer that requires the level of supervision chatgpt does is a non engineer. Someone that has not yet started coding but it just regurgitates text with little sense.
- akomtu 3y agoIf your manager replaces you, and his other reports, with an AI, he himself would be reduced to a line worker.
- RecycledEle 3y agoI agree with 90% of what You said. I just do not respect MBA students. Source: I used to teach MBA students.