Joe M.

Everyone reading this has probably not just already encountered AI, but adapted to it. There’s just no getting around it: if you’ve been in Software Engineering over the past few years, you’ve seen your day-to-day change in serious, fundamental ways. I have a close friend who just found a job after six months of unemployment. This person is a true “Rockstar” / 10-xer / whatever your preferred term is. He is an incredibly talented dev and architect that can cut entire new services from whole cloth.

I’ve been thinking a lot about AGI lately, which means a lot of things to many people. It can be anything from a true, human-equivalent reasoning machine to something more akin to a God - so far ahead of us as to be a qualitative leap in intelligence. I’m actually more inclined to believe we’ll leapfrog the first and arrive at the second. And this is why: We have the power to throw more inputs - training, data, electricity - to force more output, with AI, than we can with the human brain. You can’t house two pizzas and somehow raise your IQ with the extra calories, as tantalizing as that possibility would be.