I’m not making a Malthusian doomsday prediction, and neither was Socrates for that matter. Jobs need to be done, and there will always be somebody willing and able to acquire the relevant skills, and do the job. And in the worst case scenario, society will change it self before it is allowed to fail.
Unlike Malthus, for whom it was easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of Mercantilism, I can easily imagine a world which simply replaces capitalism as its institutions start producing existential threats for humanity.
However, I don‘t think LLMs are even that, for me they are an annoyance which I personally want gone, but next to climate change and the stagnation of population growth, they wont make a dent in upending capitalism, despite how much they suck.
But just because they are not an existential threat, that doesn’t make them harmless. Plenty of people will be harmed by this technology. Like Socrates predicted people will lose skills, this includes skilled programmers, and where previously we were getting some quality software, instead we will get less of it, replaced with a bunch of AI slop. That is my prediction at least.
Unlike Malthus, for whom it was easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of Mercantilism, I can easily imagine a world which simply replaces capitalism as its institutions start producing existential threats for humanity.
However, I don‘t think LLMs are even that, for me they are an annoyance which I personally want gone, but next to climate change and the stagnation of population growth, they wont make a dent in upending capitalism, despite how much they suck.
But just because they are not an existential threat, that doesn’t make them harmless. Plenty of people will be harmed by this technology. Like Socrates predicted people will lose skills, this includes skilled programmers, and where previously we were getting some quality software, instead we will get less of it, replaced with a bunch of AI slop. That is my prediction at least.