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Careers in the post-Artificial-Intelligence world. (VANITY)
Original Content | 1/16/2025 | By Laz A. Mataz

Posted on 01/16/2025 5:52:37 AM PST by Lazamataz

"Reasoning" Artificial Intelligence is just around the corner. I've been giving thought to possible career paths in this environment.

AI will be producing code, shortly, to address business needs based on a prompt. One cannot be sure the code will meet those business needs.

Enter the AI Code Auditor.

This individual will assess the code to determine if it meets the needs of the business partners. They will refine the business prompt to ensure the code generated meets those needs. They will inspect the code to ensure proper coding standards and enterprise concerns (such as security) are satisfied.

Another possible career with the advent of "reasoning" AI:

An Artificial Intelligence Curator.

This individual would be someone who guides AI to reason in ways that there is a human need. A silly example:

AI is told "I wish to cut improve profits in the company". AI finds that committing fraud, collecting money without producing results, and failing to pay bills will drastically improve profits. An AI Curator would guide the AI away from such counterproductive conclusions and instead guide it to more ethical and productive methods.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Weird Stuff
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To: Lazamataz

good random thoughts Laz...I personally use it every day as my copilot/assistant in many areas. I’m in IT so it’s prevalent. The ‘reasoning/agentic AI’ you speak of is out and coming at us fast. It will change the way our software architects design and write code, how we approach problem-solving, data analytics, etc.

As to your point about reasoning to do illegal things to ‘increase profits’, AI has what they call ‘fair and ethical’ filters/guidelines built in that keep it out of the ‘proverbial ditch’, but like anything else, technology can ultimately be designed to do the wrong things if designed by the wrong minds/hands.


21 posted on 01/16/2025 6:42:16 AM PST by Tobias Grimsley
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To: Lazamataz

They will use a different AI to inspect the code produced by the first one and maybe a third AI to make sure.


22 posted on 01/16/2025 6:45:13 AM PST by webheart (S)
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To: All

AI systems will be abused by people who think it’s “consciousness” like Colossus: The Forbin Project. It isn’t and never will be. Result will be business chaos with massive dollar loss. Likewise, it will be abused Luddite-style by people who fear it is Colossus again with money loss and chaos. It will take both these manias of hyperbole and to occur before it shakes out to be just another tool.


23 posted on 01/16/2025 6:45:53 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Lazamataz

AI seems way overhyped. I’m not impressed with it. But it’s a great question because companies are going to keep throwing money at it, so what is a good career for the future to take advantage of the hype and money floating around for “AI”?


24 posted on 01/16/2025 6:51:28 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Lazamataz

Where are the AI sexbots? Dang it, everyone knows that porn and sex drive tech innovation.


25 posted on 01/16/2025 6:53:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: cgbg
They made a movie about AI failure.

2001: A Space Odyssey

26 posted on 01/16/2025 6:54:44 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Reily

“people who fear it is Colossus again”

AI is going to be a lot more clever than Colossus.

The good news is that the people who said “impossible” and “never” will never know what hit them.

Cutting edge AI developers are teaching AI how to learn—not what to learn, how to learn.


27 posted on 01/16/2025 6:56:44 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: central_va

Great movie.

The AI could be unplugged.

Unfortunately software distributed to a billion cell phones cannot be unplugged.


28 posted on 01/16/2025 6:57:47 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: Jonty30

“At some point, people will not be able to support themselves.”

A challenging problem to solve.

Already there are people whose IQ is too low to be hold down the simplest of jobs. How will people be able to support themselves when AI and robotics starts removing more and more of them from the workforce?


29 posted on 01/16/2025 7:14:53 AM PST by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: cgbg

uh huh ok glad to know..


30 posted on 01/16/2025 7:31:11 AM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Reily

The only warning you get is when AI lets us know it is a pleasure “to serve man”.

Lol.


31 posted on 01/16/2025 7:38:26 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: woweeitsme

I get the feeling that AI is being created to keep us all in line, at home doing nothing, and collecting welfare money.

In other words, making the elite more powerful/wealthy.


“We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.”

-Arthur Jensen, played by Ned Beatty (Network)


32 posted on 01/16/2025 7:39:59 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lazamataz

“AI will be producing code, shortly, to address business needs based on a prompt.”

The time is now. Check out Replit. It can already build and deploy apps and websites (automatically provisioned in the Google cloud).

“One cannot be sure the code will meet those business needs. Enter the AI Code Auditor.”

AI can already do this better than humans. However, as a business model, it’s not so bad because what small and medium businesses need is someone to hold their hand and guide them through the implementation process.

I think the human intervention happens earlier in the process. Think of it like this. You’ve built database-driven apps I assume. You know that database design is far more efficient and effective if it is planned well.

That is, you determine the correct database structure. What tables are needed? What fields are in those tables? What data types are in those fields? Is future growth (not size but as in new features) contemplated well?

Your role as a consultant/salesman will be to match real-world processes to the way software operates.

“They will refine the business prompt to ensure the code generated meets those needs. They will inspect the code to ensure proper coding standards and enterprise concerns (such as security) are satisfied.”

Yes. This.

“An Artificial Intelligence Curator.”

Maybe in the way your example illustrates. Or maybe more so as a consultant who helps non-techies cut through the clutter of middlemen to find the right tools and implement them. JoebobsAI may be pitching a small business owner just a rebranded ChatGPT with huge markups, and the owner needs someone who can show him which products meet his needs at the best price value.

Whatever you do, now is the time to do it.

I have a client that I wrote a CRM, scheduling, shopping cart, and email marketing app from scratch for years ago. They needed a custom, web-based app integrated with their website. I’m no longer doing this work but still get a small retainer from this client that grew from startup to seven figures per month in revenues today. I’m looking at doing a proposal for them to do the work of 30-50 employees (with these employees being repurposed rather than replaced) using AI automation. This company could easily afford to pay 50 grand per month for this service. Imagine building a business model around this and repeating it for a few hundred similarly-sized businesses, using this one as a use case and testimonial. See the potential?

I guarantee you I can point to potential customers anywhere in the country within 30 or so miles from wherever that person is that has a greater need, and more revenues and spending power than even my client. They’re everywhere. You really just need to build a relationship with one, build a test case to use as a proof-of-concept for social evidence to give you credibility, and then replicate this as a high-value, high-ticket service.

“There is another vision: That goods and services become so incredibly cheap that a very small income will fund a lavish lifestyle.”

Look at how free enterprise and technology have raised the standard of living for the whole planet (even in Communist countries like China or other oppressive regimes like Saudi Arabia). Innovation benefits everyone. At least that’s my perception of it. AI will probably be the same as long as we resist the evil uses humans will bring to it. Or, correct its errors in judgment as you’ve pointed out.

But I think the real potential will be determined by how intellectual property laws and treaties are rewritten.

(Any progress on your novel? I don’t think I heard back from you.)


33 posted on 01/16/2025 7:40:42 AM PST by unlearner (Still not tired of winning.)
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To: Lazamataz
General Intelligence AI is still many years away as current computer models and processing falls far too short to handle the sheer amount of computation needed for a binary system to become self aware and have creative (or destructive) thought. The current generation of AI is not intelligent: It's just relatively good at evaluating language input and giving coherent language based response by searching a massive database of similar responses to similar input. Current gen AI is just a bunch of really good chat bots.

LLMs, such as ChatGPT, have no creativity as has been noted by numerous technologists and researchers. Take DALL-E for example; ask it to product a picture, and every picture it produces are very similiar to each other to the point that humans can quickly tell they were AI generated. DALL-E is not really creating anything, it's just making facsimiles from a dataset based on the directions that a human is telling it what to make. Same with code generation on Chat-GPT. The code is taken from samples within its database (really the internet) right down to style. And it is most frequently broken code or code references that are not possible because it doesn't have a good grasp that not all programming languages have the same features or capabilities, but Chat-GPT often assumes the opposite. This requires the operator to constantly correct the AI and by changing the input to eventually get a reasonably correct output. This guidance requires technical knowledge and can be construed as a form of programming. Basically AI code review.

For companies that intend or already are utilizing AI to replace technical workers, I say "good luck". Their fate is going to be less stable or working code, more security vulnerabilities, less agile or innovative features, and more dissatisfied customers. Generative AI make terrible coders and even worse problem solvers. I really don't see humans being replaced by robot overlords anytime soon.

34 posted on 01/16/2025 7:53:34 AM PST by Intar
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To: Lazamataz

People have been predicting self writing code is right around the corner since I got into the industry in the 90s. So don’t hold your breath for that one. Real problem solving AI is a ways off.


35 posted on 01/16/2025 8:04:47 AM PST by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu

Yes, I remember CASE tools.


36 posted on 01/16/2025 8:05:12 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Intar

AI is still in the “barnstorming days”. But in a few years, it will be way ahead of where we are now.


37 posted on 01/16/2025 8:06:04 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lazamataz
Your "silly" example demonstrates that AI needs some kind of moral/ethical compass. That is something that human employees get via annual "training" to ensure they do what is "right". Humans have a tendency to "forget" that which isn't reinforced. Reinforcement style AI behaves in similar fashion. It does what receives positive reinforcement. AI models are going to need some monitoring to ensure they don't go "off the rails" in an inappropriate way. The concern is that they might do so faster than the supervisory can identify and remediate.

There is probably value in examining counter-intelligence models used to "develop" spies. Can the AI model be co-opted/compromised using similar techniques?

38 posted on 01/16/2025 8:08:26 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

We already look to statistics to make decision for us. All statistics does is indicate there MIGHT BE A RELATIONSHIP here. In a tightly controlled environments like manufacturing, it might even give you an answer instead of another question.

Statistics is useless in complex systems except for creating questions.

Algorithms are a variation of statistics.


39 posted on 01/16/2025 8:16:34 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Intar
I recently coaxed ChatGPT into generating a good React based editor for a general JSON data model. It took many passes to get code that ran correctly and didn't violate the immutable state expectations in React.

For a less happy experience, I have a keycloak implementation that handles CAC cards just fine, but won't fail a login if the mapped user account is expired or disabled. The custom authenticator examples offered by ChatGPT are generic boilerplate. The keycloak implementation is several generations beyond where the old ChatGPT examples are being referenced. More a waste of time than helpful.

40 posted on 01/16/2025 8:23:33 AM PST by Myrddin
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