Celebrating Driftwood
The Fallacious Rewarding of Elite Engineers in AI
The more data fed to AI systems the less any deliberate architecture matters.
As data increases, all leading approaches converge to the same performance.
The big salaries given to AI gurus and top nerds is increasingly based on false notions of influence and cause.
Math and engineering, as currently implemented, is not what drives AI. These disciplines setup the mixing and matching of data, and enforce constraints, but the decisions used within these disciplines are, and will continue to be, increasingly arbitrary.
Society keeps witnessing the impressive performance of AI, with companies largely unaware of how inevitable it all is. Believing in outdated narratives about deterministic science and engineering, companies reward employees for improvements that happen regardless.
Celebrating driftwood for the distance it has covered.
