It’s the summer of 2026. Is AI really cheaper than humans or is it an outright lie? People said AI models be improving, becoming ten times more efficient and cheaper, but what is the reality? What can we really expect in 2027, for example?
It’s the summer of 2026. Is AI really cheaper than humans or is it an outright lie? People said AI models be improving, becoming ten times more efficient and cheaper, but what is the reality? What can we really expect in 2027, for example?
Fuck no, it is a lie. It is like an actor pretending to be a knowledge worker which fools people who don’t know better or who want to believe the lie.
Remember, it just regurgitates what it is fed plus some randomization and it can’t come up with novel ideas based on experience. That is what knowledge workers are for, applying knowledge to novel situations.
how often does that really happen in your daily life, and how much money do all people in society make with it?
i get a feeling that this mostly applies to scientists figuring out new stuff. which makes about 1 in 10000 people in society. the amount of money earned through wages that way is rather little. most knowledge workers really have an office job where they fill paperwork, send it to someone else, do calls, etc.
Every single working day where a suggestion or decision is made.
Sometimes it is a big deal and obvious but sometimes it is just keeping people doing the stuff that won’t break things that are already working.
I like to call AI the next gen search engine, but be careful of some things:
you’re much easier to track and profile
you may be fed false information easier without context of source information
you’re killing the planet
hallucinations
That makes it something other than a search engine, not a new version of one.
I disagree.
I can go into chatgpt and search for landscaping companies near me. It will link them.
I can search for a recipe.
I can search for anything I would normally use a search engine for with much faster speeds.
If that’s not searching, I don’t know what you mean.
Google and Bing return the results instantly for me.
Is chatgpt twice as instant?
Ya with their AI things. For example, of you dont HSE their AI things, searching for a recipe yields you results of said recipe. Click on it. Then you have to scroll though a bunch of bullshit about their family recipe and how it tastes, then they should you the ingredients. Then the sizing. Then the instructions.
Do the same on an AI assistant and its just text of the recipe and steps no bullshit.
One of these is improved over the other.
Recipes are something I rarely take the first result for, since they can vary widely for the same dish.
Do you care what website it came from?
Have you ever checked to see if it actually matches the source page recipe?
Recipes are something that I always check a couple sites for to look for consistency or variation and some cooking sites are better than others.
Yes I care what the source site is, that’s why you can check sources in chatgpt. Anyways its only one example, and I’m not defending AI here, my argument is that they are basically improved search engines. What is a search engine, you might need to ask yourself. You query, something responds.