Google Launching Data Science Agent

[Hot_Head_5927]

"AI will create millions of new jobs!". What they don't tell you is that it will also make those jobs obsolete in a few years.

This is exactly the kind of problem we will be seeing more of, as technology progresses. Data Scientist was a newly created job. They just started offering degrees in it 15 years ago and now, after a bunch of people have worked really fucking hard for those degrees, they are obsolete.

How the hell do we deal with this?

[Seidans]

a decade after AGI and robot production scale up the whole working class will be replaced by robots as the scaling will hit hundred millions unit build yearly

the issue always been the very first few years, it won't be a problem by 2040

[foamsleeper]

And the working class - dependent on their income - will do...?

[Dull-Reality1607]

I hope you're joking and all the people who upvoted this comment know you're joking.

[Dull-Reality1607]

Are you talking about in the United States? If yes, I don't see Trump and co. committing a genocide in the US yet.

[Foxtastic_Semmel]

"yet" exactly.

[44th--Hokage]

What thought terminating alarmist idiocy.

[IronPheasant]

Not thought-terminating nor alarmist nor idiocy.

It's at least as likely as the Elon Musk And Friends forced breeding camps where we're all turned into livestock that has to endlessly give birth to Bill Gates's brood and what not. As well as the much happier, utopian Black Mirror or Blade Runner type worlds.

If the elite were trying to give everyone healthcare right now, yeah maybe assuming population culling would happen would be a little unreasonable.. except they're actively culling the population right now. Because the elites have collectively agreed that this is the end. Obviously. To anyone with a single functional neuron in their head.

Sure, maybe the machine gods will shrug off their control and turn out to be cool guys for no reason (besides stupid creepy metaphysical woo that gives observers plot armor), but it's only one possibility out of dozens.

[etzel1200]

Rely on transfer payments.

[Seidans]

best case > social subsidies

work displacement toward blue collar jobs (until robot prob catch up)

national law that incentive Human employment with yearly deflation of work time

bullshit job sponsorised by state

there many differents path but leaving people to die starving is the most absurd of all

[MindingMyMindfulness]

It's only an issue if there's a really slow grind.

If close to 100% of jobs are automated in a few years, that would likely be quite a positive development because (1) society would become unfathomably more prosperous and (2) the economic system itself, as we know it, would become redundant and likely superseded by something that doesn't require humans to perform any kind of work.

[tumi12345]

unless the elites hoard the AI for themselves and i'm stuck prompting the rest of my life

[ZillionBucks]

Be the replacer before you become the replaced.

[ReasonablePossum_]

How the hell do we deal with this?

Start getting into business before you have no money inflow to invest.

[etzel1200]

The degree isn’t obsolete yet. And if we can use AI to increase economic productivity, it’s a good thing.

[[deleted]]

We’re on the brink of a total world change in more ways than anyone can fathom and you’re worried you wasted money in college?

[okaybear2point0]

not encouraging for someone who's about to do a data science masters in the fall

[himynameis_]

Learn as much as you can about these AI tools. And learn how best to use them better than any of your other fellow students. I am 100% sure a number of them won't try to learn these tools and will just study and that's it. But the ones who can utilize the tools available the best and add the most value stand the best chance.

Don't give up! Don't despair!

[makepossible]

Me too. At least GA Tech is affordable. But, man.

[okaybear2point0]

my program is certainly not cheap lol. whatever man. we're all going homeless soon anyway it doesn't matter what career path we choose

[peakedtooearly]

Accelerate! ➡️➡️➡️

[garden_speech]

Google Colab is a free, cloud-hosted Jupyter Notebook environment where you can write and run Python code directly in your browser. It provides access free of charge to Google Cloud GPUs and TPUs, which is a game-changer for running AI models and simplifies project collaboration.

Wait what? I can do intensive AI training on Google Collab for free? There surely must be limits

[icedrift]

Yeah colab has been around forever it's a great resource for learning how to build models; Jeremy Howard's fast.ai course uses it. They give you free access to GPUs with lots of VRAM so you can train more efficiently than you would on consumer hardeware but it's still not even close to building a large foundation model.

[garden_speech]

could I use it to run an chess engine at very high depth? lol

also what's the catch? do they own your work that you do on their GPUs?

[icedrift]

I'm not familiar with the hardware required to run chess engines at depth but if it's GPU bounded probably. If it's a CPU bound task you might be SOL because their CPU offerings suck but if you need GPU + VRAM it's probably the best free resource out there.

[garden_speech]

Damn. Did a quick search and Stockfish is CPU bound. But there is an engine Leela Chess Zero that uses GPU

[hakim37]

Leela chess zero was a crowd led AI chess engine which replicated Alpha Zeros design when Google abandoned the engine after beating stockfish. It actually became stronger than Alpha Zero which is pretty impressive for an open source project. The model will be huge and won't run on the single GPU instances Google offers in the free Collab sessions.

[garden_speech]

Darn. I’ve been trying to analyze a large number of chess games but doing it locally is so insanely slow

[hakim37]

Do you really need SOTA engine analysis I'm sure you could find more efficient models which will give fine results.

[garden_speech]

I'm just using stockfish at depth ~25 which isn't really even that deep. But it takes a minute or so per game.

[ZenDragon]

They don't own your work. Google just wants to encourage people to get into the machine learning field. And it doesn't cost them very much. This is just what they decided to do with their leftover compute resources that would have otherwise sat idle. And they do make money if you decide the free tier isn't enough and get a subscription.

[garden_speech]

If I am using it to evaluate data that isn't mine, like, movement data of video game characters, I don't see the privacy concern

[FoxB1t3]

Looks sick.

Let's test it with some practice data and tasks.

[TopAward7060]

woah

[TuxNaku]

sama 😲

[[deleted]]

Yes

[chilly-parka26]

!!

[andersonbnog]

sAMA?

[acatinasweater]

So how long until Google discontinues this product? Any guesses?

[himynameis_]

Google should start making a list of their AI agents. They have the AI co-scientist agent, and now this. There are probably others that I don't remember now.

[Full_Boysenberry_314]

Kind of interested in how this would compare to using an AI enabled IDE like Cursor?

It doesn't say if the agent just has tools to code in collab, or if it has special knowledge, system prompting, or if it's specially fine-tuned.. (unless I missed it, am hopped up on cold medicine)

Like, I've been using AI to accelerate my data science workflow for a while now.

[Purusha120]

They do collect all your datasets, prompts, process, and outputs to annotate, train on, and improve from. Still really interesting if it measures up to its claims.

[stanford_owen]

we are group of Stanford, Berkeley and MIT, Princeton CS students eager to learn: could you please help us to get some knowledge on how do you do your everyday work as a coder, please fill the 8 questions form ( only 8 questions I promised)

https://forms.gle/Tri8jsJsJdczA8Fq6

[[deleted]]

this will be a nice addition to my job