It's cute that everyone seems to think this about their own jobs.
fuzzfactor · 3h ago
I don't think I'll ever be up-to-date with all the progress in AI or trends in VC, but relying on his own expertise where he says the best VC's only identify 2 out of 10 of the really good opportunities, I would estimate that once somebody gets AI to do better than that, there may be some impact.
Some professions are going to be easier to replace than a Radiologist, others not so much.
That's why I've done science like art since way before 1980.
AI was comin' fast back then and I wanted to be resilient :)
bigyabai · 4h ago
It's especially cute hearing Marc "Invest in Crypto and the Police State" Andreessen pretend he's the augur of smart investments. Give a man an inch of credibility, and he'll take a mile.
jrflowers · 4h ago
“It’s more art than science…”
So how does his venture capital firm feel about AI doing art?
I cannot imagine a singular guy who could be more effectively replaced by a chat bot than somebody whose entire professional obligation is writing extremely long blog posts, initiating wire transfers to people in a spreadsheet, and taking notes on meetings between people on that spreadsheet
Like if AI can’t do those things this it certainly shouldn’t be trusted to write recipes or drive a car
techpineapple · 2h ago
This take is mondo-bizarro, I could come up with a reason that VC to be the last job still done by humans, but like the idea that it's because of some unique skillset VC's have is a bizarre sort of narcissistic and anthropocentric take that's absolutely bananas for someone presumably defining themselves as on the cutting edge of AI thought leadership.
rvz · 4h ago
Come on that is complete nonsense. Unless you want to board a plane with zero human pilots or believing that energy grids, data centers, and control systems with only AI robots monitoring them instead of humans is the future. (It isn't).
Those who know about AI know that statements like that tell us we are still in the euphoria stage and it is the beginning of how this AI bubble will burst.
There will be a time where open-source will race these "so-called" AI companies to zero to the point where they will be struggling to raise prices or to compete with free.
Some professions are going to be easier to replace than a Radiologist, others not so much.
That's why I've done science like art since way before 1980.
AI was comin' fast back then and I wanted to be resilient :)
So how does his venture capital firm feel about AI doing art?
https://a16z.com/aiart/
Or AI and psychology?
https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-slingshot-ai/
I cannot imagine a singular guy who could be more effectively replaced by a chat bot than somebody whose entire professional obligation is writing extremely long blog posts, initiating wire transfers to people in a spreadsheet, and taking notes on meetings between people on that spreadsheet
Like if AI can’t do those things this it certainly shouldn’t be trusted to write recipes or drive a car
Those who know about AI know that statements like that tell us we are still in the euphoria stage and it is the beginning of how this AI bubble will burst.
There will be a time where open-source will race these "so-called" AI companies to zero to the point where they will be struggling to raise prices or to compete with free.
This is classic fear-mongering.