AI Was Never Sudden: A 30-Year View on the Great Repricing of Human Talent
From dBase and enterprise systems to the internet revolution and generative AI, I have come to see AI not as a sudden break, but as the latest step in a long slope of automation now reaching human cognitive work itself.* By Po-Sung(Sinclair) Huang I did not decide to write this essay because AI suddenly became fashionable. It came out of two images that collided in my mind. One was a group of younger people trying to imagine new ventures built around AI. The other was the story of a father facing a rare disease so obscure it seemed to leave almost no path forward, and yet continuing, late into the night, to search for a way through with the help of computation, search, and structured reasoning. ...