I see a lot of job posts for AI engineers, by corporations, and I'm getting the sense that many companies do not have a clear picture of how they will use AI to replace people, they're going 'me too' and now performing exploration. We will see how that plays out in 2024.
The only ones I see that know their plan are the ones planning to automate some online customer service operations, most likely to replace Indian call center personnel. (Who don't know jack shit, so it is an improvement.)
There also will be some fast food service automation but I suspect there will be problems if they try to use speech recognition on the front end drive-throughs.
Beware however of AI deployed to make judgements such as in banking and in health insurance. I think some end people, customers, will get stamped on. I know from personal experience that AI used in HR is absolutely terrible, discriminatory, and very very stupid. It only knows key words and will reject a qualified resume simply because of not seeing them. I actually had the experience of being the only person in the US experienced in a particular technology because I created it, and the company was looking for help with it, and the HR AI rejected me through misparsing the data. There is a shit-ton of companies in NJ selling badly written AI for resume screening.
For sure, AI is being further used in media control and the technology keeps getting better and better.
AI is being used in farming to apply herbicide. Cameras on the tractor identify the plants to target and spray them only. It's not so much that it replaces a job as much as it's about limiting chemicals sprayed in a field (reducing input cost and being more friendly to the environment) Robotics has a long way to go before AI can replace some jobs, but the time will come
Yes, and not only that, they now use AI technology to precisely spray nutrients on plants, unlike before when farmers mass-sprayed. So the newest technology is saving money for farmers on materials and not depositing excess nitrogen (thus good for the environment like reducing water pollution). I was amazed that there's good AI / robotics development in the old Midwest. On the other hand, it's in Iowa and Illinois, where there are no Playboy Mansions.
In the real world, many data scientists are balless wonders. What pains me is that many in AI are either geeks or Indian or Chinese opportunists. But I'm biased in observation, as the Bay Area population is not a normal distribution. Google Street View of Sunnyvale shows so many Indian restaurants.
What does it mean to be "in AI"? You got an undergrad in comp sci by building a breadboard, learned C and JS, and then talked someone into paying you to interface with an open source cleverbot?
Without doxing myself, I'm one of the people doing fundamental research (and development), writing textbooks for the next generation of AI, and I've solved a couple of previously unsolved fundamental problems. I'm down in Silicon Valley and not up in SF with the Open AI guys. And I'm working on some breakthrough AI products. Beyond that, you may ask me questions about AI but no personal questions. And no, my name is not Stark.
I agree, and I am in AI.
I see a lot of job posts for AI engineers, by corporations, and I'm getting the sense that many companies do not have a clear picture of how they will use AI to replace people, they're going 'me too' and now performing exploration. We will see how that plays out in 2024.
The only ones I see that know their plan are the ones planning to automate some online customer service operations, most likely to replace Indian call center personnel. (Who don't know jack shit, so it is an improvement.)
There also will be some fast food service automation but I suspect there will be problems if they try to use speech recognition on the front end drive-throughs.
Beware however of AI deployed to make judgements such as in banking and in health insurance. I think some end people, customers, will get stamped on. I know from personal experience that AI used in HR is absolutely terrible, discriminatory, and very very stupid. It only knows key words and will reject a qualified resume simply because of not seeing them. I actually had the experience of being the only person in the US experienced in a particular technology because I created it, and the company was looking for help with it, and the HR AI rejected me through misparsing the data. There is a shit-ton of companies in NJ selling badly written AI for resume screening.
For sure, AI is being further used in media control and the technology keeps getting better and better.
AI is being used in farming to apply herbicide. Cameras on the tractor identify the plants to target and spray them only. It's not so much that it replaces a job as much as it's about limiting chemicals sprayed in a field (reducing input cost and being more friendly to the environment) Robotics has a long way to go before AI can replace some jobs, but the time will come
Yes, and not only that, they now use AI technology to precisely spray nutrients on plants, unlike before when farmers mass-sprayed. So the newest technology is saving money for farmers on materials and not depositing excess nitrogen (thus good for the environment like reducing water pollution). I was amazed that there's good AI / robotics development in the old Midwest. On the other hand, it's in Iowa and Illinois, where there are no Playboy Mansions.
In the real world, many data scientists are balless wonders. What pains me is that many in AI are either geeks or Indian or Chinese opportunists. But I'm biased in observation, as the Bay Area population is not a normal distribution. Google Street View of Sunnyvale shows so many Indian restaurants.
What does it mean to be "in AI"? You got an undergrad in comp sci by building a breadboard, learned C and JS, and then talked someone into paying you to interface with an open source cleverbot?
Or is it actually way more in-depth?
Without doxing myself, I'm one of the people doing fundamental research (and development), writing textbooks for the next generation of AI, and I've solved a couple of previously unsolved fundamental problems. I'm down in Silicon Valley and not up in SF with the Open AI guys. And I'm working on some breakthrough AI products. Beyond that, you may ask me questions about AI but no personal questions. And no, my name is not Stark.