So I can keep my job now so I can pay for compute in the future when I'm out of a job. The compute will be used to create my own business to make money.
Those are two different things though, and not everyone are stuck at a place enforcing token usage. And why would anyone pay you for something if all it takes is compute to make it? They would just make it themselves.
What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job?
> What makes you think you’ll be able to out-compete the purely-AI-led businesses with your business? What skills will give you an edge in the business that won’t also give you an edge in the job?
Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?
>> Or why do you think your small AI-driven business can survive against richer people who can pay for more compute and thus do better than you?
> I don't know. Maybe because of my creativity?
How would you keep that up? I think there's a false belief, especially common in business-inflected spaces (which includes the tech sector), that skills and abilities can be endlessly specialized (e.g. the MBA claim that they're experts at running businesses, any business). The more you outsource to AI the less creative you'll become, because you'll lose touch with the work.
You can only really be creative in spaces where you regularly get your hands dirty. Lose that, and I think your "creativity" will become the equivalent of the MBA offering the same cookie-cutter financial engineering ideas to every business (layoffs, buy back stock, FOMO the latest faddish ideas, etc).
Maybe I can't. But that's also why I'm invested into AI companies right now.
Plan:
1. Keep my job for as long as I can by leveraging current AI tools to the best of my ability while my non-AI user colleagues lose earnings power or their job
2. Invest my money into AI companies and/or S&P500
3. If I'm truly rendered useless, live off of the investment
I believe that I’ll keep enough of an edge in my job that I’ll continue to be employed. (At present I still have zero pressure to use AI, though I do use it.) It’s of course possible for that to turn out to be wrong, but in that case I also see no chance to start a business, and society will be in a lot of trouble.
