This weekend I had the same conversation twice:
“I’m scared AI will improve and take my job within X months”
I told them how Generative AI is a probability machine which cannot think or understand anything. As such, it cannot “improve” in the way they fear. It’s fundamentally flawed, can’t be held accountable, and was made to increase demand for computing power not meet needs.
If you come across anyone who needs to hear the same, I recommend sharing this article:
https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/
@chriswood -
It can't yet improve itself, but engineers can improve it and are improving it rapidly. And of course software in particular is easy to invent self-play reinforcement learning tasks so that the machines can invent their own good quality training data.
So as a software engineer I fully expect most current software jobs to be automated within a couple years!
