Comment by intended
1 month ago
> Because for a lot of things it works. Today. I have a setup
> There needs to be a rigorous process behind it, and I think we'll agree on that too.
I would simplify it to: “I have a setup” is the part that is doing the actual heavy lifting.
From my very unscientific survey / extensive pestering of network, the only people getting lift out of AI are people with both domain expertise/experience and familiarity with the tooling.
The types of automation I see people wanting though are fully automated customer support systems, fully automated document review - essentially white collar dark factories. (Hey thats a good term). The need is for a process that is stable, and behaves the same way every time.
It seems actual AI use cases are more like sketching - if you have enough skill you can make out the rough sketch is unbalanced and won’t resolve into a good final piece. Non experts spend far more time exploring dead ends because they don’t have the experience.
In my opinion, it’s a force multiplier for experts or stable processes, and it’s presented as Intelligence.
I feel your examples fit within these boundaries as well as the ones you have described.
I would agree with all of this. We could argue over whether/when there's sufficient intelligence for fully autonomous systems, but those systems will keep being tools for experts for the foreseeable future, and the question is just how small or large the autonomous components of that are, not whether or not you still need experts to wield them.