Comment by DebtDeflation
1 month ago
>Eventually, you’ll just need to connect a model to a computer to solve most problems - no complex engineering required.
The word "eventually" is doing a lot of work here. Yes, it's true in the abstract, but over what time horizon? We have to build products to solve today's problems with today's technology, not wait for the generalized model that can do everything but may be decades away.
True, but it tells that if you are a founder of a niche AI company then you should take money out of it instead of investing everything back into the company, because eventually the generalist-AI will destroy your business and you will be left with nothing.
Not if the generalist AI arrives after you have made your returns, which is the sentiment of the post you’re respond to.
Diversification is good advice regardless of industry / technology / niche.
Based on the author's company that be founded, I assume he believes this technology is just years away.
I think with a lot of AI folk in San Francisco, this is a tacit assumption when having these sorts of conversations.
Anyone that thinks this is just years away is utterly ignoring human history, nature, and relationship with technology. My own view is that this will never be achieved, and it's not even just about the tech.
Let's imagine for a moment that this is even achieved. Then, there is still complex engineering required in the world: to maintain and continually improve the AI engines and their interfaces. Unless you want to say that, past some point, the AI will be self-improving without any human input whatsoever. Unless the AI can read our minds, I'm not sure it can continue to serve human interests without human input.
But, never mind, we will never get there. At this very moment, tech is capable of so much more, but most sites I visit have bad UI, are bloated downloading and executing massive amounts of JS, riddled with annoying ads that serve no real useful purpose to society, and riddled with bugs. Even as an engineer, I really struggle to find any good no-code tools to create anything truly sophisticated without digging into hard-core code. Heck, they are now talking about adding more HTTP methods to HTML forms.