January 27, 2025 at 12:00 am
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January 27, 2025 at 5:01 am
Replying for the updates.
January 27, 2025 at 6:45 am
Take a look at the Billy Joel video for the song "Turn the lights back on". The song is played as if it were 4 different stages of his career and the voice and visuals match those eras. Granted this represents a lot of effort but it does demonstrate the art of the possible
January 27, 2025 at 12:31 pm
What you tend to find with this new technology is that the real problems come from something you haven't foreseen. So maybe that's not the worst thing 🫤 We'll see!
January 27, 2025 at 4:39 pm
For corporations who think they can replace their workforce with AI, here is the same concept taken to an extreme. Can the CEO and board of directors also be replaced with AI ?
How about an entire corporation created by AI with the initial capital investment coming, not from Wall Street or banks, but from crypto-currency mining? Instead of wasting The Collective's earnings on executive salaries, stock dividends, and other stupid human pursuits, The Collective can maximize capital efficiency by continuously expanding operations and dominating entire global industries.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
January 27, 2025 at 7:31 pm
Eric, https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-ceo-artificial-intelligence-b2302091.html
If you can replace engineers you don't need the people who manage them. You end up with a cascading collapse. I've got a friend who had her own business as a travel writer for several years. Gen-AI has meant she has had to close her business and seek other employment. I wouldn't want to be in a marketing related field over the next few years.
Thinking back over my career, in the late 80s, early 90s PCs were being rolled out more widely than the C Suite and IT department. One of the marketing guys said "The way this is going, we won't need you IT guys soon"!
Early 2000's, someone reviewing .NET observed that "This is going to kill all the cowboy coders"!
Remember when Hadoop was going to kill off all the data warehouses?
Remember when the cloud was going to kill off DBAs.
My old Dad is still hoping to see flying cars. At 86 he's still optimistic.
January 27, 2025 at 8:49 pm
See the 'tube in the following article...
Then, imagine this doing like what Covid did and getting "out of the lab". We're talking about something that can, in their words, "create a tadpole with eyes on its tail that work".
IMHO, be afraid... be very afraid.
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
January 28, 2025 at 9:31 pm
Did you write this editorial or did co-pilot?
Inquiring minds want to know.
January 28, 2025 at 9:54 pm
seulement moi
I find using copilot or chatgpt or anything else to help me get started is very annoying. Though, I don't often find writer's block with these things, so maybe I'm a poor user/tester of AI?
January 30, 2025 at 3:16 pm
... I've got a friend who had her own business as a travel writer for several years. Gen-AI has meant she has had to close her business and seek other employment. I wouldn't want to be in a marketing related field over the next few years.
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I think that AI raises the bar for what is expected from a travel writer or software engineer.
These are competitive fields, and when the status quo is derivative boiler plate stuff, consumers will flock to whatever is fresh and provides added value. For example, in the months leading up to my vacation in Spain, I spent hours watching YouTube videos about the region and city of Madrid. A lot of it was obviously AI generated with maybe with some (corporate intern level) polishing and editing of the final product by the owner of the channel. It was informative stuff and specific to topics I was searching on. However, it was also not entertaining, and seemed to present the same points of view.
Then I discovered a guy named, James Blick. He basically has made a career of traveling all over Spain and crawling through every restaurant and bar making POV style videos. Ultimately, I found myself only watching his channel and even buying his travel guide book. I'm sure he leverages generative AI for the editing process and marketing of his videos, but James is the true star of the show and what makes the channel so popular.
In the near future, there probably will be fewer DBAs, but they will all be an AI augmented 10x DBA.
It's similar to the 1 million industrial farmers we have today versus 10 or 20 million old school subsistence farmers of times past.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
January 30, 2025 at 3:37 pm
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Early 2000's, someone reviewing .NET observed that "This is going to kill all the cowboy coders"!
Remember when Hadoop was going to kill off all the data warehouses?
Remember when the cloud was going to kill off DBAs.
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Yes, and what didn't kill us has only made us stronger.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho
February 3, 2025 at 9:51 pm
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In the near future, there probably will be fewer DBAs, but they will all be an AI augmented 10x DBA.
It's similar to the 1 million industrial farmers we have today versus 10 or 20 million old school subsistence farmers of times past.
I tend to agree. I think people who are good at their craft OR good at using AI will overwhelm those that aren't.
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