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How can we prepare for this? This will result in mass social unrest.

refulgentis 4y ago
You think so? I'm very high on the Kool-Aid, image generation and text transformation models are core parts of my workflow. (Midjourney, GPT-3) It's still an unruly 7 year old at best. Results need to be verified. Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies.
- visarga 4y ago
  > Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies. It's funny that people are also prompting each other. Parents, friends, teachers, doctors, priests, politicians, managers and marketers are all prompting (advising) us to trigger desired behaviour. Powerful stuff - having a large model and knowing how to prompt it.
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aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago
Stock up on guns, ammo, cigarettes, water filters, canned food, and toilet paper.
- boppo1 4y ago
  Nah, learn Spanish and first-aid. Being able to fix people is more useful than having commodities that will make you a target.
dougmwne 4y ago
I think the serious answer is that it is yet another labor multiplier like electricity and software. Our tech since the industrial revolution has allowed us to elevate ourselves from a largely agrarian society to space and cyberspace. AI, by all appearances, continues to be a tool, just the latest in a long line of better tools. It still requires a human to provide intent and direction. Right now in my job, I command the collect output of a million medieval scribes. In the future I will command a million Michelangelos. Should ML/AI deliver on the wildest promises, it will be like a SpaceX Starship for the mind.
- sydthrowaway 4y ago
  Well, anyone over 40 will be fucked. There goes your utopia.
  - dougmwne 4y ago
    Computers didn't fuck anyone over 40, but they did create new opportunities for young people that slowly took over the labor market and provided a steady stream of productivity growth. Right now these are impressive benchmarks and neat toys that cost millions to train. This is going to be a slow transition to a new paradigm. We are not going to end up in a utopia any more than computers created a utopia.
  - machiaweliczny 4y ago
    No because once this is live, creating private (teaching) assistants and good UX will be cheaper.

You think so? I'm very high on the Kool-Aid, image generation and text transformation models are core parts of my workflow. (Midjourney, GPT-3) It's still an unruly 7 year old at best. Results need to be verified. Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies.

visarga 4y ago
> Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies. It's funny that people are also prompting each other. Parents, friends, teachers, doctors, priests, politicians, managers and marketers are all prompting (advising) us to trigger desired behaviour. Powerful stuff - having a large model and knowing how to prompt it.
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aaaaaaaaaaab 4y ago

Stock up on guns, ammo, cigarettes, water filters, canned food, and toilet paper.

boppo1 4y ago
Nah, learn Spanish and first-aid. Being able to fix people is more useful than having commodities that will make you a target.

dougmwne 4y ago

I think the serious answer is that it is yet another labor multiplier like electricity and software. Our tech since the industrial revolution has allowed us to elevate ourselves from a largely agrarian society to space and cyberspace. AI, by all appearances, continues to be a tool, just the latest in a long line of better tools. It still requires a human to provide intent and direction. Right now in my job, I command the collect output of a million medieval scribes. In the future I will command a million Michelangelos. Should ML/AI deliver on the wildest promises, it will be like a SpaceX Starship for the mind.

sydthrowaway 4y ago
Well, anyone over 40 will be fucked. There goes your utopia.
- dougmwne 4y ago
  Computers didn't fuck anyone over 40, but they did create new opportunities for young people that slowly took over the labor market and provided a steady stream of productivity growth. Right now these are impressive benchmarks and neat toys that cost millions to train. This is going to be a slow transition to a new paradigm. We are not going to end up in a utopia any more than computers created a utopia.
- machiaweliczny 4y ago
  No because once this is live, creating private (teaching) assistants and good UX will be cheaper.