Why I'm Never Concerned About New Technologies (Or Being Replaced)

Discussing my philosophy on tech and why you won't seem me pivoting into whatever new technology is currently being hyped up
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[@infinitivez]

I'm never worried about the new tech replacing me. I'm worried about silly upper management who think their current employees can't adapt to new tech, or think they can downsize a dept of 20 people, down to 5, because some salesperson they met 20 minutes ago, told them it would fix all their problems.

[@BinaryAdventure]

100% realness.

[@lukedowneslukedownes5900]

I come from Youruber Crumb, I love this video. It’s a super rare perspective. I would love to subscribe if you keep posting videos on your perspective on certain topics like for example you talked about new technology and the VC perspective very rare and insightful. Thank you so much.

[@gaintsgames7803]

Finally, someone who is rational when it comes to this crazy space. Love it Marcus!

[@BinaryAdventure]

This is one of the best videos ever made in the tech space. It's not even that long, but this video needs to be seen by every CS student, self-taught hacker, and concerned professional.

[@1ere1]

Marcus, you are brilliant at teaching. I really think that is your gift. The way you simplify and point out the necessity of deep domain knowledge is on point. Thank you. 😊

[@Jarjarb1nkzz]

Just heard all the details to your journey, I love the work you do and I am a huge fan!!

[@LuminousVoyage-o5g]

Yeah Chat gipity will not follow directions when manually correcting its code for it.

[@edd7297]

It will not except maybe the new 4o. Seems to work depending on scale of what you wanna build.

[@frisby_ninja]

Loving the Flipper0 just casually sitting in the background ;) I'm forever amazed at the ability of people to be so blind to the big picture ; You're not one of them. A very well-put statement and video, keep it up!

[@mytechnotalent]

It is so refreshing to have a rational human being like you Marcus to actually spell it out. I think most of us share this opinion as AI is a shallow-surface knowledge base as you said and I believe if we continue to abstract away and not understand what we are developing at the core this will also backfire on us. All in all, I share your opinion completely.

[@Th3LIZ4rdK1nGHD]

Hey Marcus, would you ever consider making a video about your approach to malware analysis? All the best

[@guilherme5094]

It's always good to find a little sanity in this environment. Thanks man.

[@FAYSAL-SOMALI-UHURU]

You are more Philosopher Then a Tech genius 🤔🙌🙏

[@joshthedragon784]

Yo I really admire you I just watched a video the knowledge you consume and contain is far too beautiful to be contained

[@LukeAvedon]

profound profound profound. Love this channel man.

[@alanpapercuts3717]

Except it's provably demonstrably wrong. I work in an office that is hiring far less creative contractors because the work can be done with AI now.

[@headlights-go-up]

@@alanpapercuts3717 sounds like "creative contractors" are those with shallow knowledge that are replaceable. did you even watch the video?

[@vp3236]

Watched a youtubers story about u, u are amazing man. :) a modern Robin hood by accident. Will definitely start watching ur videos!

[@Pafkatax]

saw Crumb's video about you and subbed instantly

[@Dante-y3s8g]

We need more ppl like you in tech ❤

[@threeMetreJim]

There is still a place for old skills. I unpacked and deobfuscated a multi-stage malware using nothing but a hex editor and 7zip a few days ago, then some basic python that I'd never programmed in before. Looking at the virustotal sandboxes analysis, it seems the anti-analysis code stopped all of the sandboxes, and ones that didn't have a net connection also failed, none of thevendors detected it at the time either. By using a manual method, I have the python code, the downloaded files and the final payload. The final payload is causing some problems, as it looks like it's written in C, and part of it is encoded / obfuscated. I cannot easily read and interpret the x64 disassembly. I did upload the binary of the final payload to virus total, and it wasn't detected by many scanners at the time, it is now though - 18/64 vs 5 or 6 out of 64.

[@JymCheong]

Spoken like a true risk management professional!

[@LuciusVulpes]

Software Engineer here. AI is nowhere near close to replacing us. Not in 2024. Not in 2034.

[@StarlightNkyra]

I'm not a software engineer, but even just from being someone observing this tech, I know this to be true.

[@MarioXcore1]

AI will usually miss things even in simple react hooks, a layman wouldn't know to even follow up and just have bad code.

[@xXstevilleXx]

Likewise, well sort of, since I have done a Masters in both Computing and Robotics [Analytics], so I am used to ASM which I would say is true programming, but also scripting languages... I am 42, so I as of recent (past decade) I deal most with 'security' (but none of these modern names like 'cybersecurity xyz', 'pentester' and such really justified what I mean. Any rate, no it will not, but like I tell all SE's, make sure your skillset (or stack) is not limited to one domain, these LLMs really do not do well when they need to deal with several domains at the same time (or virtually at the same time) and so on but there are other reasons Scaling LLMs, well given current hardware, they can perhaps scale 2x and that is that, hardware bottleneck reached, even now the amount of energy used to train these models is insane, the CO2 resulting from it... significant and unsustainable, and yes they know this and yes you can find this online.

[@AM2K2]

As a newbie - is .NET a good area to start my learning? I've read that there is job demand here whilst other 'bootcamp routes' are oversaturated?

[@Dan-x8f3u]

2035. What about Menial work. Like Fast Food and Most Warehousing ?

[@ShiuE577]

Awesome video man

[@WaterMalone42]

it's not the product that matters... it is the marketing.

[@JonMurray]

Yelling at clouds hahah!

[@JonMurray]

Really well said too mate, great advice.

[@hugobalbino2041]

Hi Marcus i have a request can u help me disable my touchpad from my laptop i tryed but ever time i shutdown or restart my laptop it comes back and i have disable everytime manually i want to do it automatic with same kind of script or some sort of programing language to do it automatic, im runing windows 11 can u help me pls?

[@SuperLlama88888]

Thank you!

[@Kay_MYG]

Is it possible to develop a simple AI that can detect polymorphic malware or that's just another name for antivirus?

[@mrfelface]

I'm not sure I would say pre-iphone smartphone were a failure. Palm Pre and blackberry were popular in their market but they were alot smaller and more niche, apple

[@marcusgroupx]

Excellent.

[@octap79]

Points!

[@Dtichamps56]

Damn this guy is really genius

[@blackmennewstyle]

LMAO, i was excited about the flipper device behind you and then i saw that INTEL CPU box on the other side, watch out latest generation INTEL CPUs have serious degradation issues 🔥

[@kimag3324]

another fantastic video

[@karlfimm]

Excellent video which made me stop and think.

[@MODDED_ERROR]

@crumb sent me here

[@countryballs511]

O simplemente no te infectan y en lugar usan un spyware en el antivirus y captan tu dirección, tu IP

[@NotYourBusiness117]

Great Video!

[@Awas-u8u]

Technology is the new world order ❤❤❤. Marcus you are too good

[@firasfrancis7726]

I just watched your story and what the corruped fufu bobo iii have done to you because you embarrassed your intelligence if they have any .. you basically done the global job and stopped the threat but no one appreciated, rather they wanted a piece of a smart man like you .. stay healthy and wiser brother and god bless your heart .. ❤

[@countryballs511]

La ciberseguridad es un concepto muy importante, ya que tmb en el futuro habrán antivirus que serán un virus, ósea hasta los qué defienden serán los que atacan, es como romper una pared, suponiendo q el antivirus es una pared, pero que tal si esa pared en realidad se encoge y destruye lo de adentro, lo mismo pasa con los antivirus, ya q le damos acceso a todo, que mejor forma para espiar secretamente ocultando tu IP de los logs y espiar todo, o peor, cuando duermes, se ejecuta el hackeó, así, en la mañana despiertas y notas q tú Puc está infectada y te piden un montón para desinfectarla y con trampa ya q con eso tu IP y ubicación quedan registrados

[@thingi]

Sorry but you are wrong on this. You are too young to comprehend the paradigm shift that occurred from the pre-internet to a post-internet world. Retail was decimated by web shopping, the high street changed beyond all recognition. Pre-internet OAPs have been left in a digital wasteland with no way of coping with the new reality that the vast amount of things are now done online. Sure blockchain and NFTs are a joke and an invention looking for a problem to solve rather than actually solving any problem. However AI is the next paradigm shift. The creative industry is already being decimated, just look at Adobe's recent TOS changes ushering in a 'new world'. The next type of job to go will be call centre agents (which replaced coal mining in the 80s). First they will replace the IVR and then as their power increases it will result in a massive loss of jobs. We are entering the unknown economically. The internet and AI mean we are moving to a Quaternary Economy (which does not even have a solid definition yet) from a Tertiary Economy. It is not just simply a case of 'retraining', it will result in many people being unemployable in exactly the same way those coal miners never got office jobs, they stayed unemployed until they died.

[@waynesallee-com]

But it is true that you don't have to be first to the game. It takes a lot less resources to come in a bit later to the game, and sweep up the profits. What concerns me, is the way that computers are being made to control people, instead of people controlling computers. It's one thing to have AI as a helper, but it's another thing to be ruled over by AI.

[@JD-vj4go]

I know this isn't the case because of survivorship bias 😂

[@matejberanek4302]

I like ur videos

[@jonathanwhitman2094]

dude I could pick your brain forever.

[@IRONHORSEMEN-98]

Yea, when you stopped the biggest hack in the world

[@TheEyeTeaMan]

the issue with ai is it can vacuum up so much data and crunch it so quickly that train can only start accelerating exponentially and eventually you will be a red paste in a well pressed suit plastered to the back of the car if you do manage to get on and if you dont you will never catch up since the ai train is going to be the thing to make better and faster and more efficient ai trains. the problem is ai is like those failed blackberries its eventually going to eliminate your keyboard and track pad and it will fleece you for buying a completely hostile closed system and it will be the only game in town and it will at that point have deep knowledge of whatever it has been fed

[@m-a-n-g-o-223]

W

[@GamerGrease]

I can't get worried about the AI craze because it's hardly anything intelligent.

[@edd7297]

People are annoying I hype up that AI will take over soon. I can tell this is like a service like excel or something.

[@abdualsamadahmad]

Hey I'm now in the technology it's principle i can learn hacking

[@rocklerock495]

That's great, now hack me. Just kidding

[@alanpapercuts3717]

Polar Seltzer currently has a department in place to utilize AI generated images of people instead of paying for images generated through photo companies and modeling agencies. I know because I'm on it. Nobody will have to pay for a model ever again when you can generate an AI face instead - they've literally already been replaced. People who had jobs staging and taking those photographs, as well as being in them, have lost all of our business this year. Every large corporation is looking in that direction - why pay for artists, photographers, designers or models ever again? Throughout history are examples of people being replaced by technology, because you were lucky enough to not have been effected by them yet doesn't make any of your philosophy correct. Just kinda blind.

[@alanpapercuts3717]

Walk around a store, and look at all the phony families holding products. None of those images are important enough for corporations to care if they are slightly flawed, but those images are the main source of income for working artists, photographers, designers and models. Corporate artwork can easily, and is easily, being replaced by AI. And that was the steady source of jobs for artists.

[@tacosyk]

​@@alanpapercuts3717hasn't that always been the case, like the industrial revolution? Technology grows, people adapt to what the market needs, etc.

[@thingi]

I agree, Adobe's Term Of Service changes should make anyone one in the 'create space' very scared for their job.

[@alanpapercuts3717]

@@tacosyk Yes, technology has always replaced jobs, which is why this take makes no sense.

[@alanpapercuts3717]

@@tacosyk The industrial revolution created jobs, the technology invented made more work for people. AI does the job FOR people, and it's a job corporations don't think people should get paid for, so all this particular technology does is remove jobs from the job sector.

[@definitelynotadam]

AI, yet another tech marketed as a game changer by tech bros to boost their game. It's a tool, and it will fizzle out into the background of tech as everything else, only to be replaced by another hype train.

[@scotland369]

Lol this is literally what I've been telling people for 6months. Almost word for word

[@madamsmith9175]

you need teaching classes

[@freeform4944]

loLol

[@grahamfinlayson-fife73]

first

[@trollgasm]

I know this wasn't the only point of the video, but on the subject of AI; I think it was well said that professionals in any given field can easily see how flawed AI is now, and it's mostly just the hype train common man that's impressed by AI. I think most of the frustration lies with the burden now being put on professionals to sell themselves, and make that apparent to people who can't tell the difference immediately. I work in a creative medium and I've never been afraid of AI or any kind of new technology purely for the fact that humans are far too social and needy to ever replace their desire for a natural form of media with REAL people, and REAL things created by hand, heart, and mind. They might look at AI generated pictures and think, "neat", but that's about all it ever is. Creativity is down overall shown by many studies, but that just gives the diamond talent hidden in the rough opportunity to shine brighter.

[@xXstevilleXx]

Like Generative AI? me neither I oppose GenAI, I can now justify (finally) with with this study arXiv:2406.13843v2 (Cornell University hosted, academic and about "Generative AI Misuse: A Taxonomy of Tactics and Insights" to from Real-World Data" to give the title since I cannot provide the link (yt removes it). However, it is new, and the peer-review process takes time, but I am certain it will pass, since it is back with 200 incidents and the people who worked on this 29 page paper include those who worked on Generative AI, from know companies, so much so you might be using 'tools' social or otherwise made by these comments, so if this is removed, I am fine with that, I really find it odd that those far too many to mention dealing with Generative AI. ignores this But any rate, bottom line, it is hype but given this paper... yeah sorry, I knew it was only a matter of time and I had to wait for that, there is more, but this is pretty much all that is needed

[@ReynaldZackerySaley]

Just watched a video about you. Damn, you're a beast. 🫡