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AI doesnt do everything 20000 times better than you ever will.
Don’t tell yourself that.
It’s better than you right now, but every mid-level tech worker will tell you it sucks. You have significantly higher capacity than it, you just have to learn to get there and that isn’t easy or quick.
I'm not sure it's even faster. Damn thing ties itself in knots trying to do basic tasks.
Yeah the problem is will he learn faster than AI improves? I wouldn't want to be in his shoes.
Oh no, they have bettered themselves for nothing!
You should watch TNG When the Bough Breaks, that’s the future we’re heading for if everyone decides to not learn hard things because the computer can do it
And once AI can no longer sustain itself once people become reliant on it, you get the modern version of "The Machine Stops" by E. M. Forster from 1909: https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/the%20machine%20stops.pdf
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I was just pointing out that this view completely depends on AI improving slower than he does. I would not put money on that.
It does not.
AI can get better but this is learned helplessness.
Of course it does. You said he has a higher capacity than AI and he just needs to learn to get there. Well that's no help if by the time he does AI has advanced even further.
No, I just accept reality. You can bury your head in the sand if you like.
It is known that, with effort, a person can improve from the level they are in university
It is not known how much AI can be improved
I didn't say it was. But at this point it would be a pretty wild prediction to think it's not going to continue to rapidly improve.
Is it a wild thing to predict that AI improvement will slow down?
Yes.
Why?