AI Won’t Take Your Job — But..
…the people who use AI well will.
This is a great quote from Ted Sarandos on NYT’s The Interview podcast this weekend.
AI has almost an infinite amount of knowledge that it can spew out as plausible bullshit but lacks the wisdom to know what is necessary, nice, or needed to achieve a desirable outcome.
I believe that AI is a tool, not a threat unless you are a Luddite — unfortunately, many specialists behave like Luddites because they believe their knowledge will insulate them from change.
Certainly, the most proficient dictaphone typists in the 1950s and ’60s believed they would reign supreme forever. The average typist adapted to the elimination of the typing pool by the internet and email by becoming an effective PA or office administrator.
In the early 1900s, the most proficient carriage builders felt the same about the horseless carriage.
In April 1965, the magazine Electronics published an article, “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits”, by Gordon Moore, the research director at Fairchild Semiconductors, who proposed that maybe, for the next ten years, engineers would double the numbers of semiconductors on a chip every few years — reaching 65000 by 1975 — it’s now 11.8 billion.
