I’d argue the trend I see in the west in tech right now is that overuse of LLMs is actually resulting in a dumber, less educated tech workforce. that may not be the case elsewhere but it is in my experience. more productive? for some people yes, but not more innovative, or more educated.
Edit: okay I misread you a bit with the above. you werent saying genAI was making people smarter, but that the practice implementing it and scaling up chip production was a step on the path to agi
However, I believe AGI is inevitable, will provide a massive first mover advantage, and will enable capabilities for those who wield it to subjugate those who don’t.
I’m a bit more agnostic on AGI but yeah, that is what I mean by longtermism… I just don’t think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years
I’d argue the trend I see in the west in tech right now is that overuse of LLMs is actually resulting in a dumber, less educated tech workforce. that may not be the case elsewhere but it is in my experience. more productive? for some people yes, but not more innovative, or more educated.
Edit: okay I misread you a bit with the above. you werent saying genAI was making people smarter, but that the practice implementing it and scaling up chip production was a step on the path to agi
I’m a bit more agnostic on AGI but yeah, that is what I mean by longtermism… I just don’t think what we do in the present should be dominated by the possibility of developing AGI in 50 years