Comments - Plentiful, high-paying jobs in the age of AI

I usually love your articles but this one leaves me disappointed. Isn't it pretty plausible to assume that AI, being a compute and energy dependent resource, will become exponentially lower cost just as microchips and solar panels have done when demand went up? What is left of your argument in reality, if the comparative advantage is not relevant anymore because of an abundance of AI? Even today ChatGPT is to a great degree just used for entertainment because its already cheap enough. I still believe it's very well written but usually you have a stronger and better defendable line of argumentation while this one is the first one that I would consider pretty obviously faulty. Microchips aren't fungible. Abstractions like "compute" and "microchips" aren't necessarily helpful when thinking about AI progress. From the perspective of this programmer "microchips" and "compute" have certainly not become exponentially cheaper with time. My job would be easier if it had, that's for sure! Instea

I usually love your articles but this one leaves me disappointed. Isn't it pretty plausible to assume that AI, being a compute and energy dependent resource, will become exponentially lower cost just as microchips and solar panels have done when demand went up? What is left of your argument in reality, if the comparative advantage is not relevant anymore because of an abundance of AI? Even today ChatGPT is to a great degree just used for entertainment because its already cheap enough. I still believe it's very well written but usually you have a stronger and better defendable line of argumenta