While I’m not surprised by the pessimism here, I am surprised at how much of it is focused on personal job loss. I thought there would be more existential dread.
Existential dread doesn’t necessarily follow from this specific development if training only works around verifiable tasks and not for everything else, like with chess. Could soon be game-changing for coding and other forms of engineering, without full automation even there and without applying to a lot of other things.
Oh I guess I was assuming automation of coding would result in a step change in research in every other domain. I know that coding is actually one of the biggest blockers in much of AI research and automation in general.
It might soon become cost effective to write bespoke solutions for a lot of labor jobs for example.
While I’m not surprised by the pessimism here, I am surprised at how much of it is focused on personal job loss. I thought there would be more existential dread.
Existential dread doesn’t necessarily follow from this specific development if training only works around verifiable tasks and not for everything else, like with chess. Could soon be game-changing for coding and other forms of engineering, without full automation even there and without applying to a lot of other things.
Oh I guess I was assuming automation of coding would result in a step change in research in every other domain. I know that coding is actually one of the biggest blockers in much of AI research and automation in general.
It might soon become cost effective to write bespoke solutions for a lot of labor jobs for example.