Does AI even work as an encyclopedia?
Today my laptop nearly broke down because ChatGPT advised me to do a clean installation of NVIDIA drivers instead of an express install (which failed) and then goes on this deranged track of fixing it back again. Hundreds of my family members who trust me with millions of dollars were affected while I was trying to fix the issue.
So when people confidently claim Al is about to replace the entire $300B Indian services economy in next 2yrs which serves as massive back office supporting multinational tech firms along with highly skilled engineers graduating from top universities across not just the US but the entire world, who work at companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and others, it honestly feels difficult to believe.
Maybe that happens post 2050 when the error rate is near 0. But right now? We still seem far from that reality which then begs the question why are so many companies slowing hiring? Is it truly because Al can already replace large portions of human labor, or is it more that higher interest rates and debt servicing pressures are forcing companies to cut costs while "Al" becomes the convenient narrative?
In Paul Krugman's tone "As we look back on this decade, my suspicion is that these chatbots will turn out to have had remarkably little effect on the broader trajectory of humanity except, perhaps, for replacing manual web searches with something closer to a pocket encyclopedia which speaks to you and is right 90% of the time"
P.s. I fell into the 10% edge case or maybe ChatGPT is so much worse than Gemini and miles away from Anthropic.