This chief AI officer says the job is more of a temporary gig

Our future will be characterized by a tension between copilot (AI as collaborator) and autopilot (humans as sidekick to AI). The latter is more efficient and cheaper in a narrow labor economics sense but troublesome in all sorts of ways.

In 2023, AI must absorb an influx of tourists – thin GPT wrappers, MBA tweet threads about AI trends, LinkedIn bios changing from #crypto to #AI. Genuine technologists will join the development effort, but filtering out negative human capital is challenging.

Undoubtedly, more builders are needed to apply and productionize the latest technologies,

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Here's my read on the situation:

* The TAM is massive, still so many businesses trying to figure out AI

* If you do deployments you’ll need to spend a of time hand holding clients through scoping projects (not unlike other dev works) since the material is so new

* Lot’s of opportunity in education

* The hard part isn’t the expertise, it’s distribution ... See more