AI can write the basic routines it is told to write by the designers. It cannot design anything unique. It can merely assemble what is already written somewhere else.
And if companies think quantity or innovation quality is a winning strategy, good luck. Your competitors who hired innovators and use AI to augment and accelerate their innovation will run you into bankruptcy.
And as for how to keep AI in check, the only thing the government needs to do is keep AI companies liable for damage. Don't let them off the hook like we did with pharma that now can legally sell poison.
Require AI companies to pay damages and you won't need strangling regulations.
Ai is the difference between a pocketknife and a wood lathe, though with Ai, the applications appear endless. Thanks for the link. It is a joy to see how a feeling of incredulous realization can leave you in awe. Palpable joy.
So AI can design something thats never been designed?
If you're going to run a company based only on products created by a computer program, the returns are short lived.
For example, AI generated art was the cats meow for a couple years but even that was just recompilation of existing art - and real artists thought they were done.
Now it's just noise. Real film and art is what people seek now - with AI augmented but human designed.
Ai is the key to Permission-less Innovation. Did you miss that? Please read the post. Not being able to see the forest for the trees is a societal problem that plagues humanity in more ways than this one. Did you notice that during the Covid years? I guess not. Now there is a chance with Ai.
What happens when a determined person can finally afford to build the thing the experts told him required a department and a venture capitalist? That’s freedom with practical consequences. Muse understands why cheaper tools threaten comfortable incumbents. My concern is who gets to set the boundaries: whose ideas the systems accommodate, whose assumptions they enforce, and whether independent builders can challenge those choices. I want competing tools, room to experiment, and accountability for actual harm. We should fight any arrangement that makes a handful of companies the permission desk for human ambition. Give people the tools. Let them surprise us.
RL, it feels like the Wild West, and before that time was Christopher Columbus. It was the budding of ingenuity, a breaking away more than a breakthrough that has led us to this moment. To turn back to the days of feudalism is what much of the world wants us to do. It is a new American Revolution we must fight to preserve our God given rights of freedom to create and express ourselves.
Programmers seem to lack an awareness of how their work can result in job losses, including those in their own profession. If a task can be automated, it is without any thought of how it might displace workers, programmers or others.
The Programers (the good ones) don’t care because they are not “system bound.” They are free to use whatever the result is, as a tool for greater improvement and innovation. If only the medical industrial complex thought the same way. They once did, but regulations have not provided for a “safe or effective” experience in that field. We have the Covid years to thank for that.
I am not a programmer but I have followed DHH's journey with AI. He originally thought it would be most helpful for juniors. I'll wait and see how it shakes out.
As a retired programmer I cannot disagree more with the premise of this article. AI will result in a loss of creativity by removing the motivation of people to create unique, customized, solutions to business problems. First US programmers were replaced because of offshore, now they will be replaced by agents / bots. What does it say about a society that has lost the ability to do for itself but is dependent on machines to do essential tasks?
I gather you are serious. Architects might find that last question amusing. As might farmers. Or airline pilots. Or shipping companies. Or bus drivers. As might every person who has ever used a machine to enable him or her to do what they could not with only brain and brawn. Our species is defined by tools and their complexity. It's up to us to decide how we use them.
P.S. Loved the Ruby on Rails reference and development back story. I'm involved in a project right now that will revolutionize its industry and likely could not have been done as little as a year ago. So, don't tell me that AI will stunt creativity.
You are conflating two different ideas. As a programmer I used tools just to do my job. However, I created the solution not any machine. AI is far more than a tool. It replaces human invention and human creativity. If you can't tell the difference that's your problem, not mine. Bug off.
SI, No offense, but it is kind of like worrying about how the world would change if everyone had access to books and could read. As long as human beings have the last say in what takes place, we can all benefit greatly. If I were in your shoes, I would proudly see myself as a pioneer and celebrate that you have been able to help make this possible.
Charming. Forgive me for having the temerity to disagree with your POV. I can tell the difference, thank you. And I agree that AI is unlike any tool that came before. But AI only replaces human invention and creativity if a human makes that choice. I choose to use AI to do things I either could not do before or do not have the time to learn to do. In this respect, AI allows me to be more creative and inventive. Sorry that’s not the case for you.
AI can write the basic routines it is told to write by the designers. It cannot design anything unique. It can merely assemble what is already written somewhere else.
And if companies think quantity or innovation quality is a winning strategy, good luck. Your competitors who hired innovators and use AI to augment and accelerate their innovation will run you into bankruptcy.
And as for how to keep AI in check, the only thing the government needs to do is keep AI companies liable for damage. Don't let them off the hook like we did with pharma that now can legally sell poison.
Require AI companies to pay damages and you won't need strangling regulations.
Nonsense. As with everything AI to this point, check back after the next release.
"It cannot design anything unique" is just false. Maybe it was true 1 or 2 years ago. Not today. https://x.com/atmoio/status/2103895436360884389?s=20
Ai is the difference between a pocketknife and a wood lathe, though with Ai, the applications appear endless. Thanks for the link. It is a joy to see how a feeling of incredulous realization can leave you in awe. Palpable joy.
So AI can design something thats never been designed?
If you're going to run a company based only on products created by a computer program, the returns are short lived.
For example, AI generated art was the cats meow for a couple years but even that was just recompilation of existing art - and real artists thought they were done.
Now it's just noise. Real film and art is what people seek now - with AI augmented but human designed.
Ai is the key to Permission-less Innovation. Did you miss that? Please read the post. Not being able to see the forest for the trees is a societal problem that plagues humanity in more ways than this one. Did you notice that during the Covid years? I guess not. Now there is a chance with Ai.
What happens when a determined person can finally afford to build the thing the experts told him required a department and a venture capitalist? That’s freedom with practical consequences. Muse understands why cheaper tools threaten comfortable incumbents. My concern is who gets to set the boundaries: whose ideas the systems accommodate, whose assumptions they enforce, and whether independent builders can challenge those choices. I want competing tools, room to experiment, and accountability for actual harm. We should fight any arrangement that makes a handful of companies the permission desk for human ambition. Give people the tools. Let them surprise us.
RL, it feels like the Wild West, and before that time was Christopher Columbus. It was the budding of ingenuity, a breaking away more than a breakthrough that has led us to this moment. To turn back to the days of feudalism is what much of the world wants us to do. It is a new American Revolution we must fight to preserve our God given rights of freedom to create and express ourselves.
You've always been on the 'leading edge' and here, I suspect, you still are.
Looks amazingly like Boz Scaggs.
That was great.
Programmers seem to lack an awareness of how their work can result in job losses, including those in their own profession. If a task can be automated, it is without any thought of how it might displace workers, programmers or others.
The Programers (the good ones) don’t care because they are not “system bound.” They are free to use whatever the result is, as a tool for greater improvement and innovation. If only the medical industrial complex thought the same way. They once did, but regulations have not provided for a “safe or effective” experience in that field. We have the Covid years to thank for that.
I am not a programmer but I have followed DHH's journey with AI. He originally thought it would be most helpful for juniors. I'll wait and see how it shakes out.
As a retired programmer I cannot disagree more with the premise of this article. AI will result in a loss of creativity by removing the motivation of people to create unique, customized, solutions to business problems. First US programmers were replaced because of offshore, now they will be replaced by agents / bots. What does it say about a society that has lost the ability to do for itself but is dependent on machines to do essential tasks?
I gather you are serious. Architects might find that last question amusing. As might farmers. Or airline pilots. Or shipping companies. Or bus drivers. As might every person who has ever used a machine to enable him or her to do what they could not with only brain and brawn. Our species is defined by tools and their complexity. It's up to us to decide how we use them.
P.S. Loved the Ruby on Rails reference and development back story. I'm involved in a project right now that will revolutionize its industry and likely could not have been done as little as a year ago. So, don't tell me that AI will stunt creativity.
You are conflating two different ideas. As a programmer I used tools just to do my job. However, I created the solution not any machine. AI is far more than a tool. It replaces human invention and human creativity. If you can't tell the difference that's your problem, not mine. Bug off.
SI, No offense, but it is kind of like worrying about how the world would change if everyone had access to books and could read. As long as human beings have the last say in what takes place, we can all benefit greatly. If I were in your shoes, I would proudly see myself as a pioneer and celebrate that you have been able to help make this possible.
Charming. Forgive me for having the temerity to disagree with your POV. I can tell the difference, thank you. And I agree that AI is unlike any tool that came before. But AI only replaces human invention and creativity if a human makes that choice. I choose to use AI to do things I either could not do before or do not have the time to learn to do. In this respect, AI allows me to be more creative and inventive. Sorry that’s not the case for you.
Steve, humans replacing themselves with machines has been a forever thing.
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