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jacquesm | on: We should be more ambitious with the software we build
Precisely. I have both feelings simulataneously. I am impressed by what it can do and horrified because I realize what it will do to the job market and society in general. Meanwhile everybody seems to believe that AI will cure cancer and therefore we should let it do all the damage it will do without realizing that people will die because of AI as well (in fact have already died because of AI).
_Microft | parent | next
This is a reply to the dead comment of buriram:

> If anything, it should make me more optimistic, not less. If you have an idea, you can turn it into product within 30 minutes, no matter how complicated it is.

There is no product in that anymore because someone else could copy your product in the same time.

Rapzid | root | parent
Right? If it's so easy and cheap where is the value? There is no value.

This fallacy is second to only every SME believing their jobs are going to be the jobs AI can't replace.

You have QA engineers chiming in about how "QA" isn't going anywhere.. On threads talking about code, tests, and PR reviews being completely automated.. PR reviews being a quality assurance activity..

Rapzid | parent | next
Cure cancer lol. It'll send unemployment over 20% and nobody will have insurance for treatments much less cures.

Cancer deaths are going to sky rocket before this is all over.

hobo123 | parent | next
AI cannot possibly do meaningful bio science because it cannot run experiments on its own. It's limited by the crap science papers others have written, often with "third party" funding, i.e. in direct or indirect dependency from pharma.
jacquesm | root | parent
You may want to read up on the state of the art of bio labs, this is just one example:

https://globalmecho.com/lights-out-lab/

hobo123 | root | parent
Nice.

I guess my wording was really bad. The point I was trying badly to make: I wasn't thinking about cell-level stuff, but rather human-level observations, experiments, etc. and these are not possible in a lab but only out in the "real world." I don't see AI running anything on that level.

edit: that would be more like medicine, not bio-science

anilgulecha | parent | next
Hyperbole much? If you are serious, then what cohort of people are dying more per million, than before 2025?
jacquesm | root | parent
Girls attending school in Iran.

Give it some time and you'll be adding to that list.

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