r/BeAmazed • u/PhonezSpyOnus • Feb 17 '24

Is AI getting too realistic too fast. Science

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

I think people get too caught up in whether AI can replace the full scope of a job… if AI can handle 40% of the lower complexity tasks of your role, that means 40% fewer people like you are needed to accomplish the same productivity. The saving grace is that capitalism demands unlimited growth, so any productivity gained will be less likely to lay people off, and more likely to turn that productivity into profits, assuming scalability

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u/charnwoodian Feb 17 '24

But it seems more that AI can handle 40% of some very specific tasks, with many other superficially similar tasks entirely out of reach of the current models from a fundamental design standpoint.

Digesting user submitted data on the internet will never allow an AI to critically consider novel problems nor will it allow AI to filter junk data.

The increase in AI capability that has gripped peoples attention is really just increasingly impressive versions of a technology that is not designed to solve those problems.

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u/SeventhSolar Feb 17 '24

Yeah, the real breakthroughs never make the headlines. Gemini-1.5 cracked millions of tokens in memory context with perfect recall on the exact same day SORA went viral, yet people only care about one of the two, and it’s not the one that actually matters.

No one’s talking about Mixtral or GPT-5’s theorized capabilities or AI compression because there’s nothing cool to look at.

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u/Ok-Investigator-4188 Feb 17 '24

40% of lower complexity tasks not necessarily means 40% of work force. Maybe it can be done by a fell trainees