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> AI is us In case you hadn’t noticed, “us” is the competition. But the machine “us” can be made arbitrarily faster and cheaper than us, for what is convergin

• boffinAudio 3y ago
  AI is nothing without us. Sure, it has a big set of training data now - but just how far do you think this will recurse before the knowledge becomes useless? I'm not convinced AI is anything other than just another grep. A fancy one, for sure, but still its only as good as the data you give it. As has been the case with computers since the very beginning. Of course, some AI-pro head will come along and tell me why I'm wrong, but the proof is in the pudding. If nobody is coding any more, how will AI learn how to code? Is AI the ultimate stagnation of technology? It really could be, you know. As it stands right now, I'm seeing junior programmers who cannot get AI to do things, whereas I can get AI to do things better than a junior programmer. But thats only because of my experience and knowledge. AI can be made to function really, really well as a junior dev - but only for as long as there are really good datasets from real human developers out there to work with. If the kids don't keep learning to program, that dataset is going to stagnate...
• aleph_minus_one 3y ago
  > But the machine “us” can be made arbitrarily faster and cheaper than us, for what is converging on a similar technical skillset. Reading less marketing pitches from these AI companies is good for your sanity. :-D