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AI is arguably the most powerful production (as in “means of production”) tool ever created. Anyone that is literate and somewhat intelligent/capable with acce

AI is arguably the most powerful production (as in “means of production”) tool ever created. Anyone that is literate and somewhat intelligent/capable with access to the web is potentially more inventive and creative in the coming years than the greatest thinkers and creators that have ever lived. Billions of people will meet this qualification. Everyone is now faced with a choice: use the tool and stay in the race, or ignore the tool and drop out of the race. There are thousands of social problems to solve.

lanstin 4y ago
This doesn’t really match my experience of trying to get GPT to do all my daily software work. I don’t think I would have succeeded at all were it not for my ability to debug its output, which of course is the result of my model of the reality of the computing system and years of debugging my own and others code. So if I lacked that experience, I don’t think it would that valuable. On the other hand, I did get it to make a nice story arc for JoJo in the style of a Shakespearean comedy. My son and his friends have been getting it to write manga about themselves but in novel genre crossing stories. Like a normally happy magic genre where the main character lacks powers and dies. So no more transformative than really good entertainment. Fun but not going to reduce income inequality or stop the sea from rising.