The list of complaints reads like a manifesto decrying the advancement of AI. The arguments are vague and poorly defined. I suspect the real concern is that AI may soon be doing math better than mathematicians.
"I suspect the real concern is that AI may soon be doing math better than mathematicians."
AI is the game changer in humanity. For the past 60 years it was all about who got the highest SAT score or got into the STEM, who was the math wiz and so on. Those got the jobs and the high tech sector, Wall street and startups. Now all those jobs are going to be replaced. Same thing at the labs. The key will be who has "taste" or who can manage the AI. There will be a bifurcation of the manager class and everyone else. It will be the people with the "people skills" and the movers and shakers and the big picture people that will benefit the most. The high IQ super math types who we needed because they could run or write code will no longer be needed. Basically the geek will not be needed, we will not have to put up with you for code, analysis, software, and getting numbers, AI will do that for us.
This will lead to the many such manifestos as more jobs filled by these people are replaced.
You better learn how to make videos on youtube, make friends, be social or try to lean to get along with other people because AI is taking your job.
I would suspect that the workforce at the labs will both downsize and switch to less STEM types to more outreach, influencer and manager type, who will sell what the AI is making or have the bigger picture of what AI will do, and before long AI will be doing the discoveries, work, coding and so on. A new kind of skill set will be needed at that point and that will be one that is not the traditional smarts person but the influencer.
Nvidia’s CEO Just Dropped a Hard Truth: “Smart” Is About to Become Worthless
For decades, society has sold us a specific formula for success: High IQ + Perfect Test Scores + Specialized Knowledge = A Secure Future. We hire the “smartest” people. We obsess over grades. We treat intelligence as a scarce, gold-standard resource.
But Huang is telling us that the era is over. As AI rises, it doesn’t just compete with us; it laps us. It can score 100% on the test faster than you can pick up your pencil. It can write cleaner code, diagnose diseases, and summarize legal briefs in seconds. In the very near future, raw intelligence will be like tap water or electricity: vital, yes, but cheap, abundant, and accessible to everyone with a Wi-Fi connection. If “smart” is no longer special, what is left? If everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket, where does human value hide?
I mostly agree with the above comments about how AI will change the labs, but they are missing an important component. LLMs can fully automate today our enormous and expensive box checking compliance workforce. That can free up money for stuff that is really needed like more craft, building repairs, better IT and computing, etc.
Second, it's not that smart people will become obsolete, it's that the prototypical book smart, non-creative lab nerd type will. Genuine creativity and inventiveness will be accelerated and enhanced by AI. But the majority of technical lab workers are more of the uncreative, apply known concepts repeatedly types. A lot of those, especially software people, won't be needed. Also, most of what IT does can be similarly automated.
But since the labs currently function first and foremost as a jobs program, inefficiency and bloat isn't seen as a bug, but more like a feature. That system will have to change first before reforms can happen.
Hopefully AI bots will correct the then/than guy until he finally learns the difference between the two words. If that actually happens, then the investment will have been worth every penny.
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Why is this a treat? If AI can do better than great. It is like people who work on horseshoes warning against cars.
The world is changing and we need to change with it.
It is not a threat until it hits you buddy!
The list of complaints reads like a manifesto decrying the advancement of AI. The arguments are vague and poorly defined. I suspect the real concern is that AI may soon be doing math better than mathematicians.
"I suspect the real concern is that AI may soon be doing math better than mathematicians."
AI is the game changer in humanity. For the past 60 years it was all about who got the highest SAT score or got into the STEM, who was the math wiz and so on. Those got the jobs and the high tech sector, Wall street and startups. Now all those jobs are going to be replaced. Same thing at the labs. The key will be who has "taste" or who can manage the AI. There will be a bifurcation of the manager class and everyone else. It will be the people with the "people skills" and the movers and shakers and the big picture people that will benefit the most. The high IQ super math types who we needed because they could run or write code will no longer be needed. Basically the geek will not be needed, we will not have to put up with you for code, analysis, software, and getting numbers, AI will do that for us.
This will lead to the many such manifestos as more jobs filled by these people are replaced.
You better learn how to make videos on youtube, make friends, be social or try to lean to get along with other people because AI is taking your job.
I would suspect that the workforce at the labs will both downsize and switch to less STEM types to more outreach, influencer and manager type, who will sell what the AI is making or have the bigger picture of what AI will do, and before long AI will be doing the discoveries, work, coding and so on. A new kind of skill set will be needed at that point and that will be one that is not the traditional smarts person but the influencer.
Nvidia’s CEO Just Dropped a Hard Truth: “Smart” Is About to Become Worthless
For decades, society has sold us a specific formula for success: High IQ + Perfect Test Scores + Specialized Knowledge = A Secure Future. We hire the “smartest” people. We obsess over grades. We treat intelligence as a scarce, gold-standard resource.
But Huang is telling us that the era is over.
As AI rises, it doesn’t just compete with us; it laps us. It can score 100% on the test faster than you can pick up your pencil. It can write cleaner code, diagnose diseases, and summarize legal briefs in seconds.
In the very near future, raw intelligence will be like tap water or electricity: vital, yes, but cheap, abundant, and accessible to everyone with a Wi-Fi connection.
If “smart” is no longer special, what is left? If everyone has a supercomputer in their pocket, where does human value hide?
The labs are going to transformed in a few years
I mostly agree with the above comments about how AI will change the labs, but they are missing an important component. LLMs can fully automate today our enormous and expensive box checking compliance workforce. That can free up money for stuff that is really needed like more craft, building repairs, better IT and computing, etc.
Second, it's not that smart people will become obsolete, it's that the prototypical book smart, non-creative lab nerd type will. Genuine creativity and inventiveness will be accelerated and enhanced by AI. But the majority of technical lab workers are more of the uncreative, apply known concepts repeatedly types. A lot of those, especially software people, won't be needed. Also, most of what IT does can be similarly automated.
But since the labs currently function first and foremost as a jobs program, inefficiency and bloat isn't seen as a bug, but more like a feature. That system will have to change first before reforms can happen.
Hopefully AI bots will correct the then/than guy until he finally learns the difference between the two words. If that actually happens, then the investment will have been worth every penny.
Hopefully AI bots will allow some posters to post something original on the blog.
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