alt Hacker NewsIt's the new underpaid employee that you're training to replace you.
People need to understand that we have the technology to train models to do anything that you can do on a computer, only thing that's missing is the data.
If you can record a human doing anything on a computer, we'll soon have a way to automate it
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It's a strange economical morbid dependency. AI companies promises incredible things but AI agents cannot produce it themselves, they need to eat you slowly first.
Exactly. If there's any opportunity around AI it goes to those who have big troves of custom data (Google Workspace, Office 365, Adobe, Salesforce, etc.) or consultants adding data capture/surveillance of workers (especially high paid ones like engineers, doctors, lawyers).
> the new underpaid employee that you're training to replace you.
and who is also compiling a detailed log of your every action (and inaction) into a searchable data store -- which will certainly never, NEVER be used against you
Data clearly isn't the only issue. LLMs have been trained on orders of magnitude more data than any person has ever seen.
How much practice have you got on software development with agentic assistance. Which rough edges, surprising failure modes, unexpected strengths and weaknesses, have you already identified?
How much do you wish someone else had done your favorite SOTA LLM's RLHF?
I think we’re past the “if only we had more training data” myth now. There are pretty obviously far more fundamental issues with LLMs than that.
LLMs have a large quantity of chess data and still can't play for shit.
Sure, but do you want abundance of software, or scarcity?
The price of having "star trek computers" is that people who work with computers have to adapt to the changes. Seems worth it?