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I’m very concerned about where this is going. I can absolutely see the benefit of this technology and have used it a couple of times in the last week to genuine
by simonbarker87 4y ago
I’m very concerned about where this is going. I can absolutely see the benefit of this technology and have used it a couple of times in the last week to genuinely save me time and come up with some ideas.
My concern is where this is going, if the marginal cost to produce, effectively, infinite content is zero then what’s the point here? What’s are we doing and where are we going?
Is the aim ti get to a point where humans don’t have to do anything? It’s all taken care of? Because if AI can make our art, create all media formats of our content, handle problems and do a lot of our physical tasks then … what’s the point?
People look at me as if I’m mad, but in the space of 12 months we’ve gone from “AI can’t even manage multiple timers” (not quite but if you live with a Siri then you get it) to “holy moly, I can’t tell if that painting was made by a human or not” which is bonkers.
I guess we need to see if we are at the start of the exponential curve or approaching a plateau.
- js8 4y agoI am looking forward to it. People will finally stop up each other in the name of meritocracy, and the society will equalize, because we will collectively recognize no one is really better and more deserving. The industrial revolution did this with physical strength and fitness, and the recognition that muscle doesn't really matter anymore lead to general decrease in violence. In a similar way, we will stop mythologizing intelligence or creativity.
- discreteevent 4y agoA lot of people at the top are those who are the most manipulative which is a very restricted form of intelligence. General intelligence was not a barrier for them up to now. Those kinds of people will continue not to share.
- naasking 4y agoYour implications of the effects of the industrial revolution are tenuous at best, and that's being generous. People are great at rationalizing why some people deserve more than others. Your perfectly equal society will probably never happen.
- rnd0 4y agoI may have the technical issues wrong, but I'm not sure once you factor in training that the cost is marginal. ChatGPT isn't open source; and unlike stable diffusion you can't simply self-host a trained AI equivalent. What makes ChatGPT effective ...again, as I understand it... is the training which is a result of pouring millions of dollars in it. That may be pocket change in Silicon Valley but outside of there, it effectively puts it out of reach.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoto train yes, assuming no one releases the models, but even then I'm hoping the apis will be somewhat affordable
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoif ai actually does everything i think it'll free us to focus on more interesting things.. i think we're a long long way from that though.