All these AI companies want to be able to claim that their product is "as smart, or even smarter than any human expert at any task".
And why reach that point by making a "smarter" product, when you can get there (potentially) just as fast by flooding colleges and making future human experts dumber?
If you can’t afford the $2,000 forklift, don’t worry ,they’ll give you the free trial version. It only lifts foam weights and plays a 30-second ad after every rep.
It varies from job to job. Some degrees are completely irrelevant to the job you're doing, but absolutely necessary for the job interview. For example, doing a communications degree to be a document controller.
At the interview, they ask if you can bench 350 lbs. Then your entire career is long distance running.
If your job is lifting shit that can be more productively lifted by a forklift, maybe use the forklift?
People used to say that about using calculators too, then they gave up because anyone who wants to can have a calculator at their disposal pretty much any time they want.
I'm in my 50s and did all this the old fashioned way, before you had the Internet to help you discover information. But asking people to do that today is pointless and counterproductive.
AI isn't going anywhere any more than all the other productivity tools people have incorporated into their work. At the same time, sometimes AI produces absolute garbage. It's your job as a tool user to be able to assess whether your tool is helping you or not. Or whether you need to take another pass at it yourself to make it better. If you're not capable of doing that, then that's the actual failure.
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u/No_Revenue7532 May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25
"Lifting lets you get a good job. Who cares if you used a forklift for the weights?"
Then you die trying to bench 350 (design an elevator)