Venture capitalists worry AI will disrupt their industry, even as they previously claimed it couldn’t replace them.
San Francisco: People who give money to startups are worried about computers taking their jobs. This is funny because they used to say machines couldn’t do what they do.
They said picking good companies is like art, not math. Machines can do many jobs, but they thought not this one. Now things are changing.
Will Knight, a reporter who knows about computers, says there’s no proof yet that computers are taking jobs. The worry is bigger than the facts. Some people say that teams of computer workers might get smaller.
Marc Andreessen, who gives lots of money to new companies, says choosing good companies is more like luck than science. He thinks this job might be one of the last humans do when computers can do everything else.