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Very typical SV argument that R&D is "complex" and everything else is "simple". Would it blow your mind if I told you 10yrs ago that we'd have AI that can do m
by bashfulpup 1y ago
Very typical SV argument that R&D is "complex" and everything else is "simple".
Would it blow your mind if I told you 10yrs ago that we'd have AI that can do math/code better than 99% of humans but ordering a hotdog on doordash would be cutting edge and barely doable?
I don't disagree that "common" tasks are more valuable. I only argue that the argument these are easily automatable is a viewpoint based on ignorance. RPA has been around for over a decade and is not used in many tasks. AI is largely the same, until we get massive unrestriced access to the data for it we will not automate it.
- User23 1y agoThe code that AI is good at currently is exactly common tasks. Good luck getting it to write a competitive video card driver for Nvidia hardware or anything else that requires actual creative problem solving that isn’t github boilerplate.
- spongebobstoes 1y agoIt's only common among trained experts. For most people, even simple code is astonishingly difficult. I personally get more value from AI when coding more complex and novel things. Not fully automated, but English has become the most valuable language for me when coding.
- Workaccount2 1y agoI think this is the blind spot that a lot of tech workers have. To them, AI is years (decades?) away from being able to produce an Excel clone. To average people, excel is just a tool to add up columns of numbers. Something AI is readily capable of today.
- sumedh 1y ago> Good luck getting it to write a competitive video card driver for Nvidia hardware Jensen says they use AI to build their chips.
- gnulinux 1y ago> if I told you 10yrs ago that we'd have AI that can do math/code better than 99% of humans This not even remotely close to true. Like not even a little bit. I use Cursor and Gemini for work daily and I'd be hard pressed to think AI is a "better" programmer than any professional software engineer. Sure it makes writing code faster and more efficient, because you just click tab and three lines are written for you. It absolutely isn't better than me at coding though. The claim about math is even more unbelievable than the claim about coding. We still don't have a single theorem proved and published by a LLM without human aid. LLMs barely follow a discussion in basic topology. It's incredibly ridiculous to state they're better than 99% of people. More like 0% of mathematicians and maybe 50% of college freshman.
- istjohn 1y agoThe top 50% of college freshman math and physics majors is approximately equal to the top 1% of all people.
- sealeck 1y agohttps://danluu.com/p95-skill/ https://danluu.com/p95-skill/
- techpineapple 1y agoI realized today while coding with cursor that AI seems to operate exactly the way I intuit it does, which is it acts like a junior engineer who works by copying existing code but doesn’t understand why. For a lot of tasks that works great, I do this a lot as a senior engineer, but I know when not to. you can’t let it run wild, because it doesn’t know when not too.
- graemep 1y ago> a junior engineer who works by copying existing code but doesn’t understand why Given the amount of time I have spent fixing code written like this over the years it is not encouraging.
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- tokai 1y ago>10yrs ago [...] ordering a hotdog on doordash would be cutting edge and barely doable? Online food ordering is a lot older than 15 years.
- rchaud 1y agoDoordash is not the same as traditional online ordering. DD and all delivery apps are 3rd party middlemen that set their own menu prices and operate separately from the restaurant. Through this kind of obfuscation, they incentivize the growth of things like ghost kitchens, which are basically faceless factories. Nobody would order from them if they drove by one. but on the apps, they are displayed as standalone restaurants.
- falcor84 1y agoWhile I know there have been some issues with working conditions at ghost kitchens, I've also heard tons of horrible stories from regular kitchens, so it's not clearly to me that there's a significant difference on that front. As for referring to them as "faceless factories", I can't even start to imagine what sentiment that should evoke in me. I don't have an issue buying food products made at actual factories, and have visited quite a few. As such I don't have any issue ordering from a ghost kitchen located in an industrial area that may look like a factory on the outside.