News ChatGPT Creates Arduino Drivers in the Style of Adafruit's Ladyada

[Admin]

Using GPT-4 and a free PDF plugin, Adafruit CEO Limor "Ladyada" Fried is tasking AI to create Arduino drivers for new components.

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[ezst036]

Looks like AI will be capable of starting to eliminate software developer jobs after all.

It used to be that the automators eliminated menial jobs. Now where do the automators go when their automation eliminates their own job? Do many developers refuse to do any kind of AI at all because it's basically an economic suicide pact?

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

Looks like AI will be capable of starting to eliminate software developer jobs after all.

It used to be that the automators eliminated menial jobs. Now where do the automators go when their automation eliminates their own job? Do many developers refuse to do any kind of AI at all because it's basically an economic suicide pact?

To be quite honest, I really don't think that most of the people working on AI tools are self-aware enough to stop themselves from making themselves redundant. Right now they're thinking "they're always going to need my skills!" Then they'll be successful in making these tools, and they're first going to think "wait, that wasn't supposed to happen to me!" and then a few years later some of them are going to think "wow, was I ever an idiot!"

 

[derekullo]

Building a house without a hammer would probably be near impossible.
Hammers haven't replaced construction workers.
Even if you developed a smart hammer mounted on some kind of robot you would still want a human with knowledge of the buildings plans to double check its work.

 

[tgandalph]

No, ChatGPT does not free up time. It frees up from some of the cognitive load. That's great but it also means new engineers must still learn all the tech bc otherwise they will not know how to review ChatGPT code. That said ChatGPT is a tool, not a replacement. It will drive more demand for better qualified engineers, not less.

 

[tgandalph]

Looks like AI will be capable of starting to eliminate software developer jobs after all.

It used to be that the automators eliminated menial jobs. Now where do the automators go when their automation eliminates their own job? Do many developers refuse to do any kind of AI at all because it's basically an economic suicide pact?

Using a tool to be more productive is an economic power. Those who refuse to learn and use a new tool are pushing themselves out of the market. They will not be replaced by the tool, but by someone who uses it.

 

[ezst036]

Building a house without a hammer would probably be near impossible.
Hammers haven't replaced construction workers.
Even if you developed a smart hammer mounted on some kind of robot you would still want a human with knowledge of the buildings plans to double check its work.

A hammer isn't the equivalent of an AI. A 3d printer is much closer for comparison. And if you'll note, 3d printers have been used to build buildings of some note; and is perhaps a low level AI of sorts. China is planning on printing a dam for a river.

What used to take a whole team of humans with jobs, is now one or three people doing a design and pressing "print".

So effectively, yes, AI has destroyed those construction jobs. And note, those are all low level jobs for poor and working class. So that's who gets hurt the most in this scenario, working class people.

And as for your "smart hammer mounted to a robot"?

Humanoid Robot Can Fly a Plane Just By Reading the Manual

Using natural language processing and AI, PIBOT can perform takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi tasks without any modifications to the plane itself.

www.extremetech.com

In the end that would mean one single human builds a towering building downtown, whereas previously it took hundreds, if not thousands of humans to do this work. Maybe you can call this a win for efficiency but wow that is a lot of destroyed jobs.

Yes. Destroyed. That is the correct word. Destroyed.

 

[ezst036]

Using a tool to be more productive is an economic power. Those who refuse to learn and use a new tool are pushing themselves out of the market. They will not be replaced by the tool, but by someone who uses it.

It is a mistake to compare an AI to a tool.

 

[derekullo]

It is a mistake to compare an AI to a tool.

Made by humans to help humans ... a tool.

 

[derekullo]

A hammer isn't the equivalent of an AI. A 3d printer is much closer for comparison. And if you'll note, 3d printers have been used to build buildings of some note; and is perhaps a low level AI of sorts. China is planning on printing a dam for a river.

What used to take a whole team of humans with jobs, is now one or three people doing a design and pressing "print".

So effectively, yes, AI has destroyed those construction jobs. And note, those are all low level jobs for poor and working class. So that's who gets hurt the most in this scenario, working class people.

And as for your "smart hammer mounted to a robot"?

Humanoid Robot Can Fly a Plane Just By Reading the Manual

Using natural language processing and AI, PIBOT can perform takeoff, landing, cruise, and taxi tasks without any modifications to the plane itself.

www.extremetech.com

In the end that would mean one single human builds a towering building downtown, whereas previously it took hundreds, if not thousands of humans to do this work. Maybe you can call this a win for efficiency but wow that is a lot of destroyed jobs.

Yes. Destroyed. That is the correct word. Destroyed.

And what do hammers and 3D printers have in common?

They are both tools!

As for the jobs lost/Destroyed;

Wasting time shouldn't be rewarded if the job could be done easier and cheaper with a different tool.