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@sarajw 100% agree on all points.
I'm not sure whether people just don't recognise patterns re-playing, or whether that doesn't matter because social and economic systems chug along in their normal flow anyway and are pretty much impossible to actually control, because they're mostly emergent rather than directed.
Like no bird being in charge of the flock - you can see how it works but have no real control. Human systems feel more and more like that.
Which in-and-of-itself isn't "bad" if you're the company or country that owns the AI providers.
That'll change. And then you're fucked.
I'll re-iterate what I said yesterday:
- Once you outsource your manufacturing to other countries, you no longer retain the skills and workforce to spin it back up.
- Once you're reliant on outsourced work, the people you outsourced to have the power and get to dictate terms.
AI is *exactly* the same thing.
Once it's been relied on long enough that there are not enough juniors with the fundamental knowledge, few to no seniors left... that's the end of your ability to not rely on AI providers.
In an era of tech companies & influencers pushing hard on #AI, I'm sitting here refreshing my knowledge on PHP programming.
Know the fundamentals and:
- enjoy your craft
- spend less money
- don't fear about when the AI providers alter their deals
You'd think that countries already grappling with the terrible impact of having outsourced their manufacturing - and how that is crippling their economy and national security now - might recognise a new outsourcing of fundamental capability. But no.
@jensimmons Produces awful results; so straight away I can discount it on that alone. Not considering all the other issues.
It’s trained on the web. Most of the web is awful code. No surprises it can only generate bloated inaccessible garbage.
I’m more worried about how AI will kill the web by hijacking the content itself, than by it making websites.
