Comment by NameError

I think the core problem at hand for people trying to use AI in user-facing production systems is "how can we build a reliable system on top of an unreliable (but capable) model?". I don't think that's the same problem that AI researchers are facing, so I'm not sure it's sound to use "bitter lesson" reasoning to dismiss the need for software engineering outright and replace it with "wait for better models".

The article sits on an assumption that if we just wait long enough, the unreliability of deep learning approaches to AI will just fade away and we'll have a full-on "drop-in remote worker". Is that a sound assumption?