Whose Job they will take
It is the dream of founders and CEOs of big tech companies to create Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Their sole objective may be to ultimately fire all employees. Consider the existence of fully automated factories and retail stores, and the recent suggestion by Nvidia's CEO that students should not learn programming due to AI's impact on jobs. However, there's a potential alternate scenario. Training GPT-4 required nearly 50,000 top-tier GPUs running for six months. Future GPT iterations will likely demand even greater compute power. If, in three years, we have a GPT-19 that costs $10,000 to generate a single reply—far surpassing human intelligence—who would we replace with it? Minimum wage workers, or CEOs and politicians? Due to the cost, AGI might be the preferred choice for replacing those in power. This is the true fear of the powerful: not that AGI will seek to destroy us, but that the rise of superintelligence will lead to demands that human leaders be replac...