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Arvind Narayanan

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To understand and empathize with how workers in many or most fields outside software experience advances in AI capabilities, I propose a little thought experiment.<br>What's gone wrong with AI & labor — a thought experiment

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@linguinelabs

1h

If it weren’t for the constant, vocalized threat (from CEOs!) of being replaced as a software engineer, it would be (and is) pretty exhilarating time to be a software engineer right now

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@chirathyh

4h

Seeing AI as doing an equivalent (not equal) job to a human, and the augmentation/collaboration-process/scaffold, opening up even more value/opportunities; Kasparov's Law. Enjoyed reading the article and also the ICML keynote slides.

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22m

That works until "work" just entails "stating what you want" and then employment becomes totally superfluous.

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