The last work left in this world

I was listening to a podcast and walking. The podcasters were talking about the future of work, what AI is good at and not. Whether there will be software developers in the world. And I had this thought: what if the only work that remained in the world was feeding training data to the AI.

See, all these companies have spent a lot on AI. Google expects to spend 75 billion on AI, Microsoft will spend 80 billion on AI, Open AI is planning to spend 500 billion - 125 billion per year and others will be spending billions as well. That seems like a lot of money. They would want to get that back money. They are all investing this money.

Now, regarding work, work is what the corporations pay us to do. Given the amount of money they have spent, and how big big tech is, they will not just write this off. All of this spend, needs to account for something.

Now, walk with me.

Suppose, whatever these corporations want, comes true (I don't think it will). AI is everywhere. AI can do everything. AI will replace all workers.

The only thing left for humans to do in such a world, would be to train the models. Because these models would forever need the data. These models are us, they are not creating anything new. All that they know, is all that we know. S0 they would always need more data.

Or, like in case of Amazon's magical checkout service, humans are the backend for AI. Whatever the corporations say AI does, well in the backend, there is a human sitting somewhere, manually labelling the data.

That would be fun.