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"I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords"

• NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Again,is that a helpful comment? I 1000% acknowledged and am terrified of social, economic, power implications. I think they should be discussed and debated. They are not the same thing though as "is this useful?". We can and should have discussion on dangers of nuclear and AI and ubi and myriad other things. I will still unabashedly repeat my only point in this thread - it's shocking to me that some people find "chatgpt has no use", to the point I find it disingenuous.
  • notpachet 4y ago
    If I'm to expand on my (admittedly a little facetious) parent comment, it would be to say: I'm not arguing that ChatGPT has no use. My argument is that I strongly suspect the long term negative externalities of large language models will vastly exceed any positive impact they will have on society. And humanity has a pretty clearly established track record in terms of widespread deployment of things that bring some immediate utility but whose longterm consequences we don't understand upfront. CFC's, artificial sweeteners, cigarettes, lead paint, social media, React Hooks, so on and so on and so on, ad infinitum, ad nauseam. I guess I'm just surprised how easily people are able to put aside their terror (as you put it) in exchange for some of that sweet, sweet, short-term utility. They're two sides of the same coin. You're ushering in tomorrow's consequences, unseen.