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Originally Posted by Russic
You're shi**ing me, dude this is an awesome idea! I'm totally sending this to my buddy who has way too much time and money on his hands; he'll be all over it.
To me your experience outlines something I've seen a lot in my own stuff, but I think it's also a factor in everything else... it's usually just one or two things blocking, but it feels like a massive, insurmountable issue. I've had more than one instance where I'm totally stuck, then a model upgrade come down the pipe a week later and everything falls into place. I've had multiple "I guess AI isn't quite there yet for this" moments followed by a solution within a week.
The democratization of this is strange. I was listening to a podcast with Demis Hassabis (one of those 500 godfathers we have) who was saying as a science guy, he kinda wished it remained in-house and was used only for science. At the same time, he acknowledged it's cool that the public gets to come along for the ride this way. We get to see the rapid advances and play with the breakthrough moments.
It's such a surreal thing to have 10-15 little tools that you've created sitting on standby, and every 3 weeks they simply work better because of an update.
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Thanks! Ya it's a really interesting time because it's putting so much "power" in people's hands. I work in O&G and I thought we were a ways out from dropping PDF ISOs into an AI and having it pull an MTO and give a manpower estimate, apparently we are not. Which is unbelievable considering Adobe can barely even OCR stuff.
This has been my first big foray into AI and it the biggest thing for me is the hundreds of hours of experience it replaces instantly. By that I mean it gave me (who has no ability) coding ability. Someone who knows nothing about estimating industrial projects could plug it in and learn the basics that traditionally took years to learn. I really can't tell if it's a good thing or a bad thing yet. I think at the point we're at now, if you're a competent, intelligent person with a knack for problem solving you could use AI to become pretty damn good in a ton of fields outside your experience.
While there's no replacement for experience in a field, AI seems to be able to expedite the experience process which I think will have lots of downstream effects that we're already seeing. Is the base work being done by AI or by people? This well written resume, was it just a really good prompt? Does this person know anything and actually provide value, or is AI covering up a lack of competence?