However, the one thing I feel like is missed by some in these conversations is that what's being built is a general purpose thinking machine, not a coding machine. How are we going to transition from writing code to solving problems when the machines are solving the problems?
The honest AI boosters do claim we won’t solve problems anymore, we will live animals in a zoo, overseen by machines of loving grace.
The retard AI boosters, tell us to be AI first, learn this harness bro, loops are yesterday, now it’s graphs, use 100 agents a minimum or be left behind, actually world will require 100X more software engineers.
Why would we still be alive? Once we have advanced enough AI inside not only computers but robots, the rich will no longer need us. They will have the robots farm the land, clean their homes, fly their planes, etc. We will then have no income and therefore no way to feed ourselves. Most people do not own enough farm land to keep themselves alive.
In the past, such imbalances of power were resolved because the rich still relied upon the poor for everything (security, food, etc). I think we're approaching the point where even armed insurrection is no longer an option with the advances in automated killing machines. We're not there yet, but it's coming.
You can't outsource understanding, and to the extent LLMs can understand anything they can only learn through training. So until LLMs can truly learn, rather than bringing themselves up to speed with huge contexts, you'll probably still want some people who understand what it's doing.
I think Navier Stokes is a brilliant case study for all that it didn't do. An AI 'solved' a famous problem, of a kind that is impossible to cheat, yet the reaction is incredibly apathetic. Why? Because it apparently failed to do the thing people were hoping it would, but what exactly? Of course it also manages to fumble the delivery by antagonising the people most interested in the result, but still.
zeven7 · · focus · HN ↗
However, the one thing I feel like is missed by some in these conversations is that what's being built is a general purpose thinking machine, not a coding machine. How are we going to transition from writing code to solving problems when the machines are solving the problems?
sashank_1509 · · focus · HN ↗
The retard AI boosters, tell us to be AI first, learn this harness bro, loops are yesterday, now it’s graphs, use 100 agents a minimum or be left behind, actually world will require 100X more software engineers.
craftkiller · · focus · HN ↗
Why would we still be alive? Once we have advanced enough AI inside not only computers but robots, the rich will no longer need us. They will have the robots farm the land, clean their homes, fly their planes, etc. We will then have no income and therefore no way to feed ourselves. Most people do not own enough farm land to keep themselves alive.
In the past, such imbalances of power were resolved because the rich still relied upon the poor for everything (security, food, etc). I think we're approaching the point where even armed insurrection is no longer an option with the advances in automated killing machines. We're not there yet, but it's coming.
shiandow · · focus · HN ↗
I think Navier Stokes is a brilliant case study for all that it didn't do. An AI 'solved' a famous problem, of a kind that is impossible to cheat, yet the reaction is incredibly apathetic. Why? Because it apparently failed to do the thing people were hoping it would, but what exactly? Of course it also manages to fumble the delivery by antagonising the people most interested in the result, but still.