One of my pet peeves is people who don't know fuck all about automation talking about automation as this thing that takes no work and will result in everyone being unemployed.
Then people go "Oh, we'll just automate that part of automating things!" as if an infinitely recursive micro-auto-automation is just a matter of taking an all nighter or two and then utopia rather than an insane endeavor of unlimited complexity.
Then people go "Oh, we'll just automate that part of automating things!" as if an infinitely recursive micro-auto-automation is just a matter of taking an all nighter or two and then utopia rather than an insane endeavor of unlimited complexity.
It can reduce certain parts of the need for labor in specific circumstances, but in a lot of ways you're just moving the pile of resources from one pile to the other. I've seen it first hand. Sounds so nice on paper, but eventually rubber meets road and somebody actually needs to do something.
A lot of impossible things are reasonable to imagine. The devil is in the details, and so in the imagination the details are abstracted away so you don't need to deal with them.
A lot of impossible things are reasonable to imagine. The devil is in the details, and so in the imagination the details are abstracted away so you don't need to deal with them.
Interestingly, I see the opposite. Technological progress has been dramatically stagnating for a while. Moore's law is long dead and most of the stuff we're seeing is just incremental improvements on existing concepts.
You might be too young to know what being in computers and technology used to look like. 10 years would change everything. Now 10 years isn't even a blip.
You might be too young to know what being in computers and technology used to look like. 10 years would change everything. Now 10 years isn't even a blip.
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Pretty small advances compared to the past. Especially considering that a lot of the Artificial Intelligent is more artificial than intelligent.
I've been involved with some projects in this regard. The strings become immediately obvious the moment rubber meets road and someone actually has to do something.
I've been involved with some projects in this regard. The strings become immediately obvious the moment rubber meets road and someone actually has to do something.
We'll have to disagree. I don't think there's any comparison between the exponential progress of the past and the incremental progress of today.
Like I said, I've seen a lot of the promises made, and the reality isn't nearly as exciting as the pitch.
Demos really well, but good demos are irrelevant. Eventually rubber meets road, and eventually someone needs to do something.
Like I said, I've seen a lot of the promises made, and the reality isn't nearly as exciting as the pitch.
Demos really well, but good demos are irrelevant. Eventually rubber meets road, and eventually someone needs to do something.