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Lord knows Nico’s safe is only so big!! Credit NY Times ...  

on which they base a substantial amount of the severance.... I'm sure some employees received very handsome pay-outs!

I've seen what the latest paid-access versions of GPT tech can do, and it's god-like. When, not if, AGI happens, there will be no job that can't be taken by a machine. "Me plus AI" is a lie sold by the tech barons and their political enablers to deflect o... 

You make good points.

AI is a disaster it's like feeling the brakes starting to go out as we race towards a cliff. We know how this is going to end. Watches will be the last thing on peoples minds.

(sorry to be flippant but what Tim says is clearly true)

The regulatory framework (is there even one) is not anywhere to be seen. People have been trained to think that regulations inhibit markets and by inference capitalism. They are about to learn a painful lesson.

81 years after Los Alamos, you still need to be a state entity to engineer and build an atomic bomb. It never got easier or cheaper. There was no Moore's Law for nukes, thank god. Tech products are different. Your neighbor's kid could use a commercial pro... 

Problem is, exactly as you say, it can’t be stopped. Your point about all the development happening in closed “labs” is going to hit like a tsunami. And no government or regulators will be able to get ahead of it.

I would love to be wrong and laugh about it here on WPS in ten years. But when greed and caution hit the scales, dollars and cents outweigh sense every time. People as a group always seem to learn the hard way. Best, Tim

It’s so good to see someone who has thought this through and is willing to speak his opinion. I do happen to agree with everything you said. The only winners are the tech bros and they may find they won nothing in the long run.

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Some things go up in buying power. Of course you could be like central banks and buy physical gold. How much do you have?

Gold? Does gold-plated or gold color count? I got lots of those 😂😂😂

I'm not a fan of AI we are rushing to our demise. Everyone sees it and feels it yet we continue forging ahead.

they try to keep up, at least that’s what I think 🤷🤷🤷

In fact I will personally seek offices in (healthcare) that have not gone the AI route to have more of a connection to someone human.

It seems a human connection in the future may be pricey!!

As per the U.S. Government portal, in three years 50% of U.S. jobs will be obsolete! Doctors, lawyers, architects, teachers… AI will take over, Maybe plumbers, electricians, construction workers have a bit longer lifespan…? Watches will be relics of the p... 

AI IMO will never replace a doctor it will help diagnose but not ultimately treat a patient. nor do I think laws would allow it to be stand alone without doctor supervision. Paralegals will probably cease to exist as lawyers could use AI to substitute for... 

However, most doctors already use AI to diagnose. In mayor cities doctors just prescribe medication and all conversations between doctor and parade recorded for AI to learn! Surgeons are safe for now! Teachers will be nothing but screens in the classroom ... 

... That's probably a temporary case as AI makes it's though/up the value chain but even if not I don't think it can beat wider demand destruction from a broad unemployment shock while healthcare costs continue to rise at least in the US. Good thing Gen Z... 

Maybe that should give us some insight to a path for those who wish to continue creating and making.

The reality is that most of these companies are and were woefully overstaffed. AI is just the excuse: companies are now trimming the fat. Forced hiring for many reasons, including non-merit based ones, and now the chickens have come home to roost. Except,... 

Last spring, doing some consultative work for the "gubmint". I educated some software developers on EARLY AI practices that were speeding development and QA/QC work by 30% within the first week or two after they adopted my suggestions, and they have kept ... 

Part with shitty AI systems. But I think, when done right, AI is can be scary useful. I hear it’s good for time intensive but repetitive task..

...Mark Andreeson (of Andreeson Horowitz fame, also Netscape, etc) recently released a VERY effective prompt that has mostly eliminated the need for custom workspace prompting and greatly reduced the hallucinations I've seen once I've "forced the reboots"... 

...20% of companies were dead weight. The bigger the company, the more dead weight. Especially departments like marketing and HR...

I've been calling it for about 15 years now, and this is my opinion of course: At most places I've worked, you have a bell curve distribution. A smattering of trainees you can absorb, the bulk of staff are junior to mid, and then a small amount of senior ... 

...including packaging, collateral, branding, marketing, writing, advertising, photo shoots, press checks, press releases, etc. I enjoyed the chaos of that. As I got older I concentrated on branding, graphic design, and print/web when it was getting start... 

What’s to worry? We would all be toast; everyone. When entire societies collapse everything stops: large scale food production, water supply, waste systems, etc. The human race has survived dark ages and global catastrophes before, it may somehow find its... 

It may not sound popular among the extremely rich, and apparently I’m neither a communist nor a socialist, but for me, wealth above (and I’m just giving an indication) 1 billion euros should be taxed at 99%. Extreme — and I mean EXTREME — wealth is not ne... 

That is why the people selling AI are always talking about how dangerous it is. Just look at Claude Mythos which Anthropic is trying to pretend is some sort of WMD.