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This is missing the point about where AI is about to take us. Having a world class education in higher level intellectual pursuits is going to be worthless in
by anonporridge 4y ago
This is missing the point about where AI is about to take us.
Having a world class education in higher level intellectual pursuits is going to be worthless in the not too distant future. It's the upper echelon of education, work, and class that's rapidly going to be replaced by AI, and much later, the lower blue collar and technician jobs. Law, medicine, engineering, government policy, management, etc, are all on the chopping block.
No one will care that you have a degree of any kind from Harvard, not because Harvard is producing less quality than it used to, but because it primarily produces brains that know things, and the years and decades it takes to produce that in a human is simply not worth the effort when you can just ask ChatGPT 13.0 for a better answer than any human who ever lived could give on just about every subject.
ChatGPT is a massive threat to your doctor's job, not your nurse's job.
- lvl102 4y agoI strongly disagree with that assessment. Creativity is not going away and that’s never going to get replaced not because AI can’t do better but because that’s what makes us humans.
- anonporridge 4y agoHarvard doesn't produce creativity. They create rule followers.
- temporarara 4y agoThe way they encourage kids to live life based on the principle "this will look good on my CV" is also nothing short of evil. It should probably be illegal for degree-sellers to take into account any extra-curricular activities.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoI would be exceedingly worried about someone trying to take medical advice from chatgpt, given that chatgpt's training data set will include anything from mayoclinic to mommy blogs to new age stuff. Similarly, I worry about law, because chatgpt's training data will include old/expired laws mix with supreme court opinions mixed with sovreign citizens nonsense.
- anonporridge 4y agoI consider ChatGPT to simply be a word like Kleenex or Google at this point. A brand name that has become synonymous with the generic. Also, don't discount the vast amount of cooky doctors and lawyers with fully legitimate licenses. The humans who occupy these roles make countless mistakes, and so will and AI version, at least initially.
- PuppyTailWags 4y agoAt least if a doctor or a lawyer gives you bald-faced wrong information that meaningfully harms you, you have some, limited recourse, and that doctor/lawyer takes on some, limited risk if they're found to be straight up negligent. With ChatGPT there is no recourse and no risk to spew harmful falsehoods. [To be clear: I state how limited this is because if doctors were genuinely held to give beyond cover-your-ass standard of care, there would be way less medically traumatized disabled people out there. Unfortunately...]