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Best take I've heard so far on AI is to compare to Jurassic Park and the old "you were to focused on whether or not you could and not whether or not you should" quote. Scientists in real life don't do that, they don't just think of the craziest shit they could dream up and then do it and just see what happens. But apparently fucking computer engineers do.
This is because a lot of software engineers aren't actually engineers. I know it's a controversial opinion to state online, but it's true. Think about how many IT students or professionals complain about taking an ethics class. That would not be tolerated in other engineering fields. Software in general is still in the wild west phase, and it doesn't help that almost every attempt to regulate the field has been a blatantly obvious corporate power grab or an attempt to create a monopoly, which will obviously not go down well.
wdym software engineers aren't actually engineers, do you have any idea how hard it is to use a JavaScript library to make a button do something slightly different than it already does?
We did at mine, but 90% of the job is jamming arbitrary bits of code together to get something that sorta works maybe
Ianist-Malcolmist vanguard deploying elite locker-shoving units to suppress the techbros.
There are absolutely scientists and mathematicians and physicists involved in all of this. Software engineers don't have the math background to make this stuff happen by themselves. Software engineers are the ones plumbing things together. Being a scientist doesn't shield you from OpenAI holding a fat 7-figure check in front of your face and you saying "yes daddy"
Not all "engineers" are self-taught/bootcamp webdevs. Some of us CS nerds still exist, who took a reasonable route to learn discrete maths, calculus, networking, and selling-your-soul-1010.
Where I work I'm the only one who doesn't have a degree much less a masters or phd in math at a minimum
What does your company do? Tooling, stats, or research?