That is the question.
In a world where CEO's ask us not to call AI output slop and don't be to negative, I was wondering is where is the Nobel in the tech industry?
Of course none of the current CEO's are writing their testament yet, I think.
Are they just blind for the negative consequences of the technology they created/are evolving? Platforms that are created for humans are overrun by bots. Before AI bots where only used to artificially higher or lower numbers and add predefined comments to try to fool people.
Now bots can generate content that looks human, and because it is not predefined more people are fooled.
The people that are not fooled can react angerily or don't believe it can replace juniors.
Because of AI people are thinking about creating new nuclear plants. In the meanwhile AI datacenters are running on (mobile) gas generators now.
It is not possible to build a nuclear reactor in a year, and then it also requires a some more time to start it up. It is not like a housing building where people can move in as soon as the essentials are build.
The problem I have with it that the economic force of the world are people, but we need to add solar panels to our houses to provide our own energy or depend on companies that exploit people to mass produce energy.
I applaud Anthropic makes research public that brings nuance to the AI hype. Their last research is about rich and poor country inequality.
I see people building application where AI is a part of the core. As developers we try to keep everything as performant as possible, but an AI command has a network latency and a AI generating latency. Even if the model is local there still will be the generating latency. And when models are run on servers with lower specifications the latency will go up.
Running models on less powerful servers means there will be less safeguards, while hacking the safeguards is already widespread.
If AI service providers can get the generating latency down enough it will mean vendor lock-in, and then you need to live with the price hikes of that provider.
While internet had a bubble period, when it imploded the infrastructure still existed. But if the AI bubble implodes we are left with more datacenters which have no benefit, because before AI companies were already setting up datacenters to hyperscale websites.
Like the Shakespeare quote I bastardized I have no solution at the end of this post. And because the original text was dark, I tried to match that.
While I think AI will be a tool we will keep on using, I will not be the be all end all tool that makes people unemployable in the long run.
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AI can help, especially when we desperately have no clue, but we should never trust its output and always remember the principle of least power: sometimes, a full text search within a manual is still the best way to find the right answer.
Is like biggest companies saw a potencial on this, and they invest too much that now they can't go back. So now they are putting AI on everything. Browser with AI, notepad with AI, paint with AI, fridge with AI, doorbell with AI... And AI output is not static, so now, everything should work, but could break. So now they invest more and more on a better AI to fix what AI broke...