Irony klaxon:
What's shaping up to be the biggest impediment to the role out of Artificial Intelligence (and the linked replacement of human roles by learning machines)?
A shortage of skilled labour in the chip manufacturing sector... looks like you can 'easily' build chip fabrication capacity but finding the skilled workforce(s)to run it is proving more difficult (for now, putting a ceiling on chip supplies).
A temporary irony but an irony nonetheless!
h/t FT
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us soon CEOs will realise that they cannot replace employees with AI. You can use it to increase productivity but not fully replace.
Then people will be disappointed because they were promised full general artificial intelligence and we are very far from that.
@nickapos @ChrisMayLA6 Very far indeed, I think. It will eventually come and I suspect it will come suddenly. But we are definitely not there yet. LLMs are nothing more than fancy indexers. AI is something else altogether.
@shuttersparks@qoto.org @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us yeah it’s a speculator economy where people try to create bubbles to benefit from them. Crypto, fully autonomous cars, AI etc. even when there is some core technology that delivers some of the value promised, the full promise is never realised.
Musk is one of the people who is doing this repeatedly and has yet to suffer from it.
@nickapos @ChrisMayLA6 Acquiring great wealth nearly always involves luck, and Musk has had that. But I have to give him credit for discovering the new angle of presenting himself as a tech genius (which he is not) and baiting those who worship tech into investing huge sums of money in him.
We live in a tech-hungry world and Musk is taking direct advantage of that by learning to string buzzwords together and to paint himself as a smartie. When his charade collapses is anyone's guess.
@shuttersparks@qoto.org @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us yeah to make money you need luck, no morals and a millionaire father also help.
@shuttersparks @nickapos
yes, a snake oil salesman for the digital age....