Historically, we make systems to make these decisions - build a method to sort potatoes. Or build a method that can build a method to sort potatoes.

Ai, as a cognitive technology, has the potential to climb that hierarchy.

Yes, current software developers need to make more decisions now. But that is just until the methodologies settle.

Then it is over.

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cadamsdotcom a day ago | parent [-]

If you think the hierarchy has a highest level, or that abstraction can only go "this far and no further".. I don't know what to tell you.

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tossandthrow 18 hours ago | parent [-]

You don't appear to have actually read the comment?

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cadamsdotcom 15 hours ago | parent [-]

I did a poor job explaining.

See, all the potato-sorting systems and the ones that drive those and so on, those are a hierarchy without end. There'll always be some other efficiency gain. And some other machine. And the whole stack will always need a human to direct and design the hierarchy, design monitoring, remediate failures, and invent new more efficient ways.

AI is not embodied and doesn't have its own drive so it can't subsume human interest and desires - humans will always direct the machines. It will never "be over".

The humans who know this will always always always be at the top, directing the machines & designing the new ones. Yes, some people won't and they will end up in the hierarchy instead of on top. But that doesn't mean it is over. It's just over for them.

You aren't responsible for how others adapt to change. Just.. work out how to not lose. Don't defeat yourself before even trying. I can't tell you how. No one can, it's your journey. But by being here on Hacker News you're already better off than most.

	▲	tossandthrow 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Unless you are only trying to satisfy your own desires, you are likely not winning over the Ai, also not in judgement. A characterization of a business is to satisfy as much desire as cheaply as possible. Ai,and in the not so distant future embodied Ai, will likely outdo humans if left unchecked. Even in areas such as providing companionship, sex, etc.