Brendan Foody: belief

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…Insofar as we turn society into this big engine for reinforcement learning, what new jobs get created by doing that? I think the most interesting part of our business is that everyone else in Silicon Valley is talking about how we automate away jobs, versus we’re very focused on how do we build this new job category of people training agents, building RL environments to help teach models. That’s what I believe it’ll converge to. Instead of the investment bankers doing the analysis, they’ll build RL environments and train agents. It’ll be the same across consulting and software engineers, and customer support and pretty much every knowledge work vertical. It’s hard to say the exact pace at which that’ll happen, but I would not be surprised if, within five years, a majority of high-end knowledge workers are training models, whether in their full-time jobs or through our marketplace, to help improve agents at whatever workflows they want to automate. To hold those jobs, how much technical AI will a person need to have? Or do they just have to know about the thing?…

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