A controversial example of why I think AI will create new engineering jobs not take them away...
This is a interesting product and (while not mentioned) also shows how AI will create engineering jobs over the next few years.
Putting aside the fact that this product is both creepy and unsettling and might be very unsettling for some people (I'm sharing this based on the technology and not based on the actual use case specifically) - it's showing how a job traditionally done by humans is being enhanced and "replaced" by AI, but also creating the need for a fleet of engineers and product people to support this product.
In this case, certain police officers's jobs are being replaced/augmented but more engineers are needed to build this really world system. For example, integrating it into "any camera system", creating interfaces to communicate across different police departments, creating secure tools that people can use to catch criminals. The next decade of AI will be cases like this. Where AI tools will replace many jobs and enable new possibilities and engineers will be there alongside building those tools.
[https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/07/17/license-plate-reader-ai-criminal/?sh=481283de3ccc](https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/07/17/license-plate-reader-ai-criminal/?sh=481283de3ccc)
u/BudgetSense8077 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Immense malarkey. Currently the input token exceeds 4086 bytes about the equivalent of 8 pages of word documents.
However once 30 years pass I think the “input” token size for paying customers of LLMs will exceed 40,000 bytes. ….. this is large enough to “drop” an entire databa
u/michaelnovatireplied·
By the time this happens engineers will be working on other things.
Engineers are problem solvers and the world isn't running out of problems. If you are an engineer and not a problem solver, you are in the wrong job and your job might be replaced in the coming years/decades.
u/Detrite wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
The world is running out of solvable problems, especially when you think about the bar required to be useful to society today. Period.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I've been thinking about this a lot and I think that feeling is a result of rising inequality in general and not running out of problems. The rich are getting richer and the gap is widening.
The bootcampers group of people is particularly sensitive to this because a bootcamp is a viable pathway for a small number of people who make the jump into the "rich person bucket" and are set for the rest of their lives - benefiting from the widening gap.
But the world is complicated and it's not so binary - rich or not. You can set yourself up on a good path, that might take several years and several steps in the journey, to achieve that dream that some bootcampers want to have in 12 weeks.