A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming

[Tarzanrock]

5. I'm old enough to remember what the world was like before

there were personal computers (PC's) and cell phones operating as computers which you carry around in your back jeans pockets. I'm pretty cognizant of the unbelievable changes to the world which the personal computer brought. A.I. and generative A.I. is going to change the world like nowhere near what anyone can even imagine today. The world is going to change more in the next 20 years than it has changed in the last 2,000 years.
For example:

In 2023, AlphaFold 2, trained on Nvidia’s A100s, solved protein folding – the most important and valuable medical innovation of all time. This will vastly accelerate drug discovery and will lead to a massive increase in human life spans.
Nvidia’s DRIVE platform powers Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (“FSD”), deployed in 1 million vehicles. Waymo’s self-driving taxis, using Nvidia’s A100s, have already logged 20 million autonomous miles and have reduced accidents by 30% where deployed.
Nvidia is powering massive increases to education, globally. Khan Academy’s AI tutor, trained on Nvidia’s A100s, reached 10 million students globally in 2024. There’s no question that the entire structure of education – and especially college – will be dramatically restructured over the next few years. Why pay $100,000 a year for a teacher who isn’t 1% as smart as the generative-AI platform Grok?
Nvidia will transform entertainment. Pixar’s Toy Story 4 (2019) used Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080s for real-time rendering, cutting production time by 40%. At some point within the next few years, someone will produce an entire Academy Award-winning feature film using only AI-generated actors and scripts.
Today Nvidia’s H100s train vastly more complex models like GPT-4 in weeks. Soon, it will be days. And then, in a decade or so, in real time. I can't even begin to imagine living in a world without having a Personal Computer and the Internet today. The advances in the next 5 - 10 years will be so astonishing that today, May, 2025, will likely seem as primitive to me as was 1975 - 1985 compared to today.