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Automated screening was already normal. Language models changed what it can assess.
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Automated screening was already normal. Language models changed what it can assess.
Systems that take actions rather than answer questions are appearing in ordinary software. The effect is specific.
Not generating whole games. Filling in the vast quantities of secondary content that nobody wanted to make by hand.
Per-token prices are low and the invoices still manage to surprise. Techniques that cut spending several times over without losing quality.
As machine-generated content and automated accounts multiply, systems for verifying humanity are moving from optional to required.
The first generation of assistants understood commands and nothing else. Language models changed what listening means.
Abundant solar power and no land use make orbital computing sound attractive. Cooling in vacuum is where the argument gets difficult.
Not as replacement but as compression. Fewer people doing the same output, and the pattern is already visible.
Compute is expanding faster than the grid that supplies it. That constraint is now shaping where AI infrastructure gets built.
The tasks being automated first are disproportionately the ones junior people used to learn on.