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176 sats \ 8 replies \ @optimism 15h \ parent \ on: You are not smart enough to make it. Neither am I. - David Shapiro AI
This. Plus, I feel that the most interesting AI applications today aren't purely generative, but transformative. The most used application today is probably search result enhancement because every search engine has it, and second, practical digestion of information, per #1223147.
So while it's super-awesome that you can with 1 voice command let it reply to all your emails with nonsense, that is not the killer app. The killer app in software is almost always that what empowers humans, not what replaces them.
The killer app in software is almost always that what empowers humans, not what replaces them.
Or what empowers some humans to replace their reliance on other humans hahaha
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Oh, all kinds. Mechanization reduced our reliance on human farmworkers, for example.
Of course, those former farmworkers went on to find other things to do.
I always tell people worried about "AI taking jobs" is to simply ask the question, "In an age of AI, what can humans do to continue bringing value to each other." That's how you will figure out what the jobs are in the AI age.
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My nephew thanked me the other day for recommending a book to him over 15 years ago. Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin. He told me the mindset described in that book has helped him excel at every job he's had.
Related to AI, before it was what it is now I thought that any task that could be scripted would be and I better focus on hard problems. That is still the case now. Do the hard things.
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