Putting on my tinfoil hat, I recently thought about a comment on how Donald Trump selected his cabinet. According to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s main criterion was how good a candidate looked on TV. Presumably, the rest was secondary. As you are also aware of, before his real or pretend fallout with him, Trump… Continue reading Is Elon Musk Only a Figurehead?
A storm is coming. While you are being distracted with AI-generated memes and porn, while laughing at examples of ChatGPT”s inability to reason properly, AI and automation in general are already in the process of replacing countless workers. I am not an AI cheerleader. In fact, I consider extensive and uncritical AI use a marker… Continue reading The Coming AI-Induced Workforce Apocalypse
I recently wrote an article that was quite critical of generative AI, but the focus was on fairly simple tasks, which these AI tools could already not properly deal with, such as compiling lists. A modicum of domain knowledge makes you realize that the information you got was incomplete, sometimes comically so. In order to… Continue reading The Low Ceiling of Artificial Intelligence
Ever since ChatGPT was first released, there is incessant chatter about human labor being increasingly replaceable. We have read that even high-skilled professions like software development will be eviscerated by an AI, presumably one that ultimately writes itself. All it took was some business guy ask ChatGPT how to write a loop that counts up… Continue reading AI is not an Equalizer
