Eleven Predictions: Here's What AI Does Next
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/eleven-predictions-heres-what-ai
«The world has gone mad. But nothing is as crazy as the AI news.
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- Nearly half of the safety team at OpenAI left their jobs—and almost nobody seems to care or notice.
- AI tech titan Nvidia lost a half trillion in market capitalization over the course of just a few days—including the largest daily decline in the history of capitalism.
- By pure coincidence, Nvidia’s CEO sold $633 million worth of stock in the weeks leading up to the current decline.
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But it’s going to get even more interesting, and very soon. That’s because the next step in AI has arrived—the unleashing of AI agents.
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- Stop worrying about AI taking over. It’s the people who own the AI who pose the biggest threat.
- AI will soon turn into a plural noun. Governments, corporations and other entities (hackers, billionaires, scammers, etc.) will each have their own AI agents—empowered by the largest computers in the history of the world, sucking up juice from the electricity grid the way Popeye swallows spinach.
- We will look back fondly at the simple days when the bots just talked to us. Soon they will be big and strong, and start making demands—or just do whatever they want without asking.
- No creative professional who works for a corporation is safe. Once creative people were assets, but in the new AI economy they are just liabilities.
- The bots will actually get dumber, despite trillions of dollars in investment. This huge spending actually accelerates the degradation.
- AI will create more disruption than profit.
- AI will replace jobs—but the first casualties will be digital workers, especially software developers. AI is most reliable in writing software code, because it is itself software code.
- The actual winners will be holistic thinkers and empathetic individuals with human skills.
- But these caring human agents will be vastly outnumbered by malicious and deceptive AI—which is proliferating at warp speed.
- Even when AI can adequately handle a job, people will pay more for a human being. This will soon become a status symbol.
- AI will create an existential crisis of epic proportions, as all the dividing lines that are foundational to society—between reality and deception, truth and lies, fact and error—collapse.»