Given that becoming an expert in a field takes 10000 hours and that no field can be assumed to be safe from AI who will want to invest that much time into anything?
Who will want to invest 10000 hours into anything that can be taken by AI?
My reaction is to the discussion more than the the article.
Many have noted that LLMs are relatively good at writing code because they learned from all the code and other material, such as books, written before.
But let's say that we no longer produce the learning material, will LLMs be able to progress on their own or the slop they make (and read) will eventually lead to the decay of the models?
Will the models decay if left to their own devices?
I think eventually things will work themselves out, but our immediate future appears to be bleak. The elites, including political elites, use AI to acquire more wealth, to become more efficient at war. They already don't give a flying fuck about what the peoples think as you can not hold them accountable for their actions. Admit it! You can't hold them accountable in the West.
So they are running unchecked to get richer, get more power, get more stuff. What needs to happen for that to change?
Some of the titles aren't translated - a cursory search did not turn up a downloadable version of the Bull's Hour, but search flibusta - titles are in russian but thanks to AI ...
It could lead to amazing advances in the distant future but in the near future it just means finding unwilling donors fast! Our society once again is not mature for such technology
Who will want to invest 10000 hours into anything that can be taken by AI?
No-one.
No-one in the current social-economic construct.