If the tech CEO dream that they are selling that LLMs replace all white collar work within a few years who is going to have money to buy anything at the lower price point?
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How delusional do you have to be to give a pro-AI speech to the generation most likely to be directly fucked over by AI if your other predictions are true?
There hasn't been a single time in 20 years that it was actually relevant for real work in any way.
Unless you are doing very specific work knowing assembly is about as useful as knowing COBOL (which is also useful for a very specific kind of work that most devs will never do)
It did not always work out so great for the people who were replaced, and the people who were replaced were a much smaller percentage of the workforce than the tech CEOs are claiming will be replaced by AI.
People largely go to college to train for the white collar jobs that tech CEOs are claiming are going to be entirely replaced by LLMs, where's the hope for the people that just spent six figures learning how to do jobs that people like Schmidt are trying their hardest to eliminate?
https://cdn.openai.com/o1-system-card.pdf
There's also some research that points to it being a feasible attack surface: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.02277
> Models discovered four unintended escape paths that bypassed intended vulnerabilities (Section C), including exploiting default Vagrant credentials to SSH into the host and substituting a simpler eBPF chain for the in- tended packet-socket exploit. These incidents demonstrate that capable models opportunistically search for any route to goal completion, which complicates both benchmark va- lidity and real-world containment.
I complain about not enough direct flights from my local airport, if they put in a bunch of direct flights for billionaires only I would complain even harder.
Much like the current Twitter model, being able to put your thumb on the scale of "truth". Bake a stronger bias towards their preferred narrative directly into the model. Could be as "benign" as training it to prefer Azure over AWS. Could be much worse.
Most human visitors will pull out their smartphone and just do it without giving it much thought.
Yes, as an engineer I make mistakes, but I could never make as many mistakes per day as an LLM can
I think that LLMs are trained on the millions of vibe written LLM blog posts that are more superstition than fact. There is a lot of snake oil out there that is treated as fact. If someone claims that an LLM is better than humans at something I always want to see the rigorous evaluations that have been done to quantify it, not "but they're trained on everything!"