mastermind@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoWhat's the best advice you can give someone starting job in tech industry?message-squaremessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down14
arrow-up1133arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the best advice you can give someone starting job in tech industry?mastermind@lemm.ee to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squareᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝AlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoSpecialise in an area AI won’t be able to do in five years time.
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoThat’s either all of them or none of them, and it’s really hard to predict which it will be. If we get AGI: All of them. The tech industry, and human labor in general, goes the way of the dodo. Game over for the vast majority of humanity. If we don’t get AGI: None of them. Language models aren’t intelligent and can’t write code, only plagiarize other people’s code. Poorly.
Specialise in an area AI won’t be able to do in five years time.
That’s either all of them or none of them, and it’s really hard to predict which it will be.
If we get AGI: All of them. The tech industry, and human labor in general, goes the way of the dodo. Game over for the vast majority of humanity.
If we don’t get AGI: None of them. Language models aren’t intelligent and can’t write code, only plagiarize other people’s code. Poorly.