ML/AI like every tool isn’t about absolute autonomy but rather about force multiplication.
This is what happened to farming, the textile industry, manufacturing etc.
It’s not that anyone thinks that an AI would be able to develop a game or an app from scratch but how many people it would displace by automating things from code generation to UI design and art assets creation.
We still have farmers, however their farms tend to be much larger and there are far fewer farmhands than there were 50 years ago let alone 100 or 150 before the Industrial Revolution kicked into high gear.
Ironically the productivity of AI/ML is quite likely going to open the door for many people the tech part of the tech community was quite often dismissive off - as in “I’m a big picture type of person and I can instinctively know how good looks like but I lack the knowledge to make my dream a reality”.
Whilst plenty of people that think they are like that often fall quite far from that even those who don’t like the Jobs of the world tend to be quite divisive individuals that too many people tend to dismiss as charlatans that failed upwards.
Overall I don’t think that an apocalypse is coming down at least not yet, however I don’t actually mind the fact that there might be more opportunity for people who really want to focus on the problem rather than people who just seem to know what the solution is or should be and find a problem that fits it.
And if AI can get to a spot where it can actually help people iterate solutions in a rapid and cheap manner it can really change how a lot of industries operate.
Also ironically a lot of other far less glorious IT professions are probably safe, old school sysadmins and infrastructure folks seem to be able to demand far higher wages than ever before which is what happens when 9 out of 10 new people in “IT” these days know how to package a hello world app that has 4GB of Node.JS dependencies and write the helm charts and TF deployment code which probably has more lines than the original Windows NT kernel but can’t calculate a subnet mask or know what MAC address is…
This is what happened to farming, the textile industry, manufacturing etc.
It’s not that anyone thinks that an AI would be able to develop a game or an app from scratch but how many people it would displace by automating things from code generation to UI design and art assets creation.
We still have farmers, however their farms tend to be much larger and there are far fewer farmhands than there were 50 years ago let alone 100 or 150 before the Industrial Revolution kicked into high gear.
Ironically the productivity of AI/ML is quite likely going to open the door for many people the tech part of the tech community was quite often dismissive off - as in “I’m a big picture type of person and I can instinctively know how good looks like but I lack the knowledge to make my dream a reality”.
Whilst plenty of people that think they are like that often fall quite far from that even those who don’t like the Jobs of the world tend to be quite divisive individuals that too many people tend to dismiss as charlatans that failed upwards.
Overall I don’t think that an apocalypse is coming down at least not yet, however I don’t actually mind the fact that there might be more opportunity for people who really want to focus on the problem rather than people who just seem to know what the solution is or should be and find a problem that fits it.
And if AI can get to a spot where it can actually help people iterate solutions in a rapid and cheap manner it can really change how a lot of industries operate.
Also ironically a lot of other far less glorious IT professions are probably safe, old school sysadmins and infrastructure folks seem to be able to demand far higher wages than ever before which is what happens when 9 out of 10 new people in “IT” these days know how to package a hello world app that has 4GB of Node.JS dependencies and write the helm charts and TF deployment code which probably has more lines than the original Windows NT kernel but can’t calculate a subnet mask or know what MAC address is…