What I find curious is that the people who sell the AI as the holy grail that will make any jobs obsolete in a few year at the same time claim that there's huge talent shortage and even engage in feud on immigration and spend capital to influence immigration policies.
Apparently they don't believe that AI is about to revolutionize things that much. This makes me believe that significant part of the AI investment is just FOMO driven, so no real revolution is around the corner.
Although we keep seeing claims that AI achieved PHD level this Olympics level that, people who actually own these keep demanding immigration policy changes to bring actual humans from overseas for year to come.
Have you maybe confused the time periods in the different discussions? I think the AI making jobs obsolete part is in the next few years, whereas the talent shortage issue is right now - although as usual, it's a wage issue, not a talent issue. Pay enough and the right people will turn up.
Who knows about the future, right? I'm just trying to read the expectations of the people who have control over both the AI, Capital and Politics and they don't strike me as optimistic about AI actually doing much in near future.
And that might be a FOMO or they can simply exit with profit as long as they can flame up the hype. An of course, they may be hoping to have it in long term.
They are not replacing their workers despite claiming that AI is currently as good as a PHD and they certainly don't go to AI medical doctors despite claiming that their tool is better than most doctors.
Is that so? I'm not in the US, so I don't have a good idea of what's going on there. But wasn't there relatively high unemployment among developers after all these Big Tech layoffs post pandemic? Shouldn't companies there have an easy time finding local talent?
Sorry for the potentially silly question. I just spent some time trying to research it and came up with nothing concrete.
But at the same time there's an ongoing infighting among Trump supporters because tech elites came up as pro - skilled immigration where the MAGA camp turned against them. The tech elites claim that there's a talent shortage. Here's a short rundown that Elon Musk agrees with: https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1872408010653589799
Every software firm, notable and small, has had layoffs over the past two years, but somehow there's still a "STEM shortage" and companies are "starving for talent" or some such nonsense?
Apparently they don't believe that AI is about to revolutionize things that much. This makes me believe that significant part of the AI investment is just FOMO driven, so no real revolution is around the corner.
Although we keep seeing claims that AI achieved PHD level this Olympics level that, people who actually own these keep demanding immigration policy changes to bring actual humans from overseas for year to come.