Artificial Intelligence
The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skills while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth. - Church of Jeff My wife quoted me that one, and it really has stuck with me. In my day job, I've launched multiple products that use AI, and so I've benefited from the technology, while simultaneously understanding that it is cheapening the value of my skills and experience in the job market. So the quote resonates with me. There are some additions or modifications I want to make, but they're kind of pointless when I think about them. For instance, I know that appropriating skills isn't the inherent purpose of AI, but rather it's prevailing application . Pragmatically speaking however, that's not a very useful distinction. We're still going to end up in the same place. Maybe I'd point out that the statement could be made about industrialization, automation, or virtually any other revolutionary technology. But so what. If anyth...
