Comment by jacquesm
1 year ago
I envy you your optimism. Meanwhile, I have one person here who is out of a job because 'automatic translation is good enough' (15 years of study down the drain) and a bunch of kids who have absolutely no idea on why they would put in effort in school given the imminent advent of AI and the short best-before dates on the kind of jobs that interest them.
If you have any good advice that transcends 'become an entrepreneur' and 'deal with it' then I'm all ears. Because this is no longer a theoretical issue for me.
> Where are these kids geographically?
NL.
> The brighter ones I know are brimming with optimism.
They're anything but stupid, in fact that's part of the problem, they're clever enough to see which way the wind blows. If they were less smart it would be less of a problem.
I think the critical skill for everyone to have now is "spot the bullshit" which can take different forms in different media and domains. Whenever the topic of AI comes up in family discussions I let my teens know just how much BS companies are willing to generate due to the investment dollars pouring in. Hence, AI is over-hyped for the most part, although unfortunately for your friend there are several automatic translation tools that just work.
However, if I ran a business where we needed to translate documents I still wouldn't trust that to an automatic tool. AI is seriously flawed, hopefully eventually more people will realize that before it buries the internet in layers of garbage.
To summarize, my children are mostly indifferent to the advent of AI because I always tell them it's complete trash.
But that's not true though, it isn't complete trash. Some of it is trash, some of it is nothing short of amazing. And the bit that is amazing, when applied at scale and properly weaponized already has the potential to transform our world in many ways.
I'm curious to know which AI bits you feel are amazing, as I may just not have heard of that yet.