The End Of Upward Mobility – AI is coming for the meritocracy

rayiner

But this is a good thing for egalitarians. It offsets one of the most unfair aspects of the knowledge economy: that some people get to have much more fulfilling and remunerative careers than average people because they were lucky enough to be born smart.

watwut

It was not meritocracy. And the thing that cane for whatever merit based advantages were was not AI, but capture of politics by moneyed interests. K shaped economy is not result of AI.

the_real_cher

It seems to me that historically there was a high water mark for what people were able to accomplish on their own and all people, dumb to smart, fell somewhere at or below that high water mark. My opinion is that our current generation of A.I. will just raise the high water mark for what's possible. Until we have AGI, ASI, or Recursively improving AI....A.I. in it's current form is a tool that adds a constant to some peoples intelligence and an exponent to other peoples intelligence...and many people of all intelligences refuse to use it.

kooi

The effect if LLMs is not linear. It's metaphorically x^2. Smart people will be more effective. Average people will remain average. Dumb people will become dependent on it.