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Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by automatom »

AI is good at generating simple examples in any given domain, including programming.

AI can't refactor code, or debug (or at least debug well as far as I know). Folks here can correct me if I'm wrong, I stopped looking into AI once I realized it wasn't as far along as most non-technical people seemed to think.

Things like Stable Diffusion and OpenAI have made great strides, but they will only serve to enhance humans' skills and abilities. There are limitations to what these tools can do, I wouldn't worry too much about having to compete with them once you're in the work force.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by evanchisholm »

HellDunkel wrote: post #52

Why not aks yourself „what is it i like to do“ instead of „how do i thrive“? You „thrivers“ are a boring bunch.

What I would like to do is ski race on the world cup circuit but since I am not good enough and don't have infinite money I'm going to need to find another option.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by weatherlite »

fragmede wrote: post #16

If you want to get into tech, get into the ML space. Teach yourself StableDiffusion. like, really dig into it and learn how it all works from start to finish. The model was released so it's open source(ish) but most importantly learning about that will let you look behind the curtain, and realize the pieces that go into, say ChatGPT. it may seem like a magic but OpenAI's published papers on the underlying technologie…

But why wouldn't A.I be able to apply A.I theory on itself and improve itself? I mean if they can replace me as a software engineer why can't they replace everyone who apply ML algorithms?

Or do you mean for him to become one of the few people who can create new A.I algorithms? That's like the top 1% of intelligence I think and the barrier will only go higher.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by weatherlite »

Honestly, if this thing keeps progressing like it does now then all bets are off, simple as that. Cognitive jobs will plummet in salary and then simply disappear. There may be jobs for the top 1% of IQ for 10-15 more years but then that's probably gone too as A.I simply becomes better than us in everything.

What's left? stuff like kindergarten workers, nurses and police officers aren't likely to be replaced so soon..(does it bring you joy though doing that?).

You can also try catching some of the A.I boom and starting your own business, there's a lot of opportunity to be had in the coming 5-10 years probably.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by weatherlite »

osigurdson wrote: post #27
__pache__ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is the wrong move. You're not going to compete with a PhD. Instead focus on the long tail, keep learning frontend or whatever you like, and put a pretty face in front of the AI. Make awesome stuff the best way you can, don't worry about matrix math all of the sudden if it's not already your thing.

This person is a teenager. They can of course get a PhD.

So hard giving advice nowadays. Pursuing a PHD will take him around 10 years ...who the hell knows what's coming in 10 years. If he wants to maximize his earnings its very well possible working for the government in whatever is a much better route.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by weatherlite »

djaouen wrote: post #2

AI will often lie confidently. It will need expert humans to correct these “hallucinations”. You’ll be safe, kiddo.

I really wish I had your optimism, I just don't. People like Sam Altman and Kai-Fu Lee don't hide that they are coming for our jobs. They don't even try to sugar coat it, "cognition/intelligence as a commodity" is what Sam Altman wants and he said that everyone working only with a computer is probably the first to go away.

I can only hope they are wrong by a decade or more like Musk was about self driving cars.

Re: Ask HN: How do I thrive in an AI dominated future?

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Post by mehh »

ninethirty wrote: post #7

ChatGPT expects to have $1B in revenue in 2024. This revenue is going to come from people building businesses around it (<-- possibly you? this would require programming knowledge obv.). Honestly, I think a person could make a living as a prompt-engineer right now. You can't fight it, you have to lean into it.

Is anyone actually paid to do this today?
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