Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
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#2Of course, the fact that the statements they made confidently for years are now hastily getting undone in the face of public backlash only further cements their reputation as snakes who can't be trusted farther than one can throw a bowling ball. For a while there I actually respected Amodei for sticking to his guns on the job loss thing, it seemed like it was his genuinely-held belief and he was going to keep saying the truth even if it was unpopular, but never mind.
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#3It is kinda funny the irony of going from "we are going to replace devs" to "we <3 devs, keep burning those tokens"
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#4It is kinda funny the irony of going from "we are going to replace devs" to "we <3 devs, keep burning those tokens"
I don't think its as big of a deal as its made out to be. They are human after all and have overestimated the capabilities of LLMs. What's more important is that this signals product market fit.
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#5the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?
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#6the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?
To market their product to c-suite people.
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#7They won't be trillionaires with that attitude. They could have kept saying the line "Ai will replace all the jobs by the end of the year" for another 20 years.
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#8I have to admit LLMs are actually quite useful at generating code for me, but I am experienced enough to know what I want. I use it as a next-generation autocomplete.
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#9The scam was that the US needed private industry to bootstrap technology that's mostly going to be used for surveillance analysis and building kill matrices.
Re: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions
#10CEOs aren't a big enough target market. They need their slop machines to appeal to the masses as well. I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing more advertising with that in mind, something like the ads Apple has but marketing their AI.