If I was starting my IT career now, this is definitely what I'd be most wanting to work on - machine learning algorithms.
Thousands of others have had the same idea.
Universities have been spitting out loads of AI qualified people.
Some are even quite good.
However, places like Deep Mind hire only double Ph.Ds and the like, so many qualified people (even the 1st Class Honours) are flipping burgers and/or doing the endless menial work associated with current AI models.
Vortex2 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 16:46
However, places like Deep Mind hire only double Ph.Ds and the like, so many qualified people (even the 1st Class Honours) are flipping burgers and/or doing the endless menial work associated with current AI models.
I still think you'll end up with the same sort of division that we used to have between OS/kernel developers and application programmers. The PhDs will do the hardcore stuff that no one else can get their head around, and everyone else will use their work as a black box that they don't need to care how it works. There are many who would have considered what I did during my software career as 'endless menial work' because I was dragging and dropping buttons and controls onto a windows form and connecting mouse clicks and key presses to display information pulled from databases. By the time I left the industry, there were applications that could create such database applications from scratch and all I needed to do was tell it what fields to put in the database and how they were related to each other. All the controls and information displays and database updates were done automatically. That's why I got into market analysis and trading, because using the software became more interesting to me than building it. But now market analysis and trading are done by machine learning algorithms as well, so I've gone into a church role that lets me work with people rather than be a servant of the AI...
RevdTess wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 15:29
When I can just say "Design a machine that will generate electricity using fusion processes and transfer more energy to the electrical grid than is used to run the machine" and it just goes away and invents everything it needs to solve the problem then we will have just become god. Or created god.
Would you characterise that as utopian or dystopian?
Overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence,
is one of the most common illusions we experience. Stan Robinson
Vortex2 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 20:32
FWIW openAI are blocking the various tricks you could use to bypass its censorship etc.
It's also getting very overloaded.
I haven't even got access to it once yet. Always says it's too busy. Maybe the AI just doesn't like me.
Vortex2 wrote: ↑15 Dec 2022, 20:32
FWIW openAI are blocking the various tricks you could use to bypass its censorship etc.
It's also getting very overloaded.
I haven't even got access to it once yet. Always says it's too busy. Maybe the AI just doesn't like me.
OpenAI are expecting the next version of their AI, version GPT-4, to launch early next year. It's going to be much more powerful, rumoured to have 500 times the parameters of the current GPT-3.
