Comment by agumonkey
2 months ago
I'm curious about rob pike's anger. I wish I knew more about the ideas behind his emotions right now. Is he feeling a sense of loss because AI is "doing" code ? or is it because he foresees big VC / hedge funds swallowing an industry for profit through AI financing ?
Sounds like Robs anger is directed a multiple know issues and “crimes” that the AI industry is responsible for, it would be hard to compile an exhaustive list outside of a lawsuit but if you genuinely aren’t aware there’s plenty in the news cycle right now to occupy you and or outrage the average person.
-Mass layoffs in tech AI data centers causing extreme increases in monthly electricity -bills across the US -Same as above but for water -The RAM crisis is entirely caused by Sam Altman - General fear and anxiety from many different professions about AI replacing them - Rape of the copyright system to train these models
I find it notable that he pointing out making simpler software. One of my fears is the ease with which GenAI produces reams of code—that this will just lead to bloat and fragility.
I kinda believe this.
there's a shift in how you make software here. LLM will produce a ton of code that embeds decisions, it's well done but it means you never have to reflect about the design, interfaces yourself. you can keep abusing the context window
most of software engineering was dealing with human limits through compression. we make layers, modules, abstractions so that we can understand each part a bit
thanks
i kinda agree with all of these
ultimately AI is the equivalent of nuclear weaponry but for human economies.. this is something that should be controlled outside private companies (especially since it's part public research and public data..)
At the very least, I would be angry that my inbox is getting spammed by a bot run by 3 obnoxious "entrepreneurs".
for a book that surveys pretty much all of it, see "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao
thanks
do you happen to know if there are groups talking about how societies will rebalance after the gpt era ?
good question, I'm not sure. Maybe check out the new Eliezer Yudkowsky book? He definity talks about something akin to "post-GPT era" on there.
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Imagine you spent your whole life working on something great only for someone else to turn it into the death star?
"You" and "someone else" in this case are both part of Google.
you mean openai and the likes swallowing computing and most probably not bringing global benefit for humans ?
there are people saying devs were naive not seeing that our jobs would accelerate automation to the point we would be retired too
Yes
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