Comment by Animats
1 day ago
> Whoever claims to have skill in AI is very shortsighted. Whatever skill you thought you had six months ago can now be achieved with a simple six-word prompt in a standard workspace.
Apparently. Remember "prompt engineering?" That was the next big job for about 15 minutes.
It takes a lot of tokens to run a multi-agent system, though. AI may hit economic limits. Progress was achieved on hard mathematical problems at a high token cost. More than the operating budgets of some college math departments.
> at a high token cost. More than the operating budgets of some college math departments.
Is that in API cost or in subscription cost or in actual cost to the LLM owner?
Wouldn't it be ironic if, after all this, it was discovered that the most economical way of producing some fundamental 'unit of intelligence' was to feed/clothe/entertain a human?
This is the very core of my issue with "AI". From a resource usage point of view, it cannot hope to compete with a developer armed with a banana.
Ook.
You can always put the brain in a jar: https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html
Isn't that the premise of The Matrix?
Bar "clothing", I guess.
It would be. But that's not going to happen.
No, that is just equilibrium economics.
Machines are cheaper than humans? Buy more machines.
Humans are cheaper than machines? Hire more humans.
eh, hardware will get more efficient. moore's law and whatnot.
Moore's law has been dead for 20 years.