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The most important skill in a rapidly changing world is the ability to learn new skills - and skills build on other skills. If you don't understand the fundame
by photochemsyn 4y ago
The most important skill in a rapidly changing world is the ability to learn new skills - and skills build on other skills. If you don't understand the fundamentals of some area of technology, ChatGPT isn't going to be of much use in helping you build anything that looks at all professional. On the other hand, refusing to learn how to write effective LLM prompts makes little sense.
Another important reality is that if you buy into what's being advertised as good for you, you may be setting yourself up for a long-term dependency, which if taken away, will leave you with less than nothing (rather like drug or alcohol addiction.)
For example, how many people, if transported to a pre-industrial society, could play any meaningful role in recreating modern industrial civilization? How would those conversations go?
"We had these wonderful things, the Internet and devices to communicate across long distances and we had fine textiles woven by machines controlled by computers and airplanes and..."
"Oh, and how do you make such things?"
"Ummmm.... well, first we're going to need some silicon ore..."
Skills are only valuable in the context of economic activity in a society if other people see them as valuable. As far as ChatGPT, anyone becoming absolutely dependent on LLM models to do their job may find themselves in a world of hurt if those models suddenly become unavailable for some reason.
- Joker_vD 4y ago> some silicon ore It's called "sand", btw. And you'd actually also need boron and phosphorus, to dope it with... hmm. In any case, one shouldn't try to jump over the steps. Black metallurgy first, parts standartization second, then coal chemistry, then toy-scale electricty, then steamworks, etc. Not to mention radical changes in the structure of human societies! Good luck with that.
- 13years 4y ago> The most important skill in a rapidly changing world is the ability to learn new skills This is what AI is. It is a skill learning machine that can outpace your ability to learn given enough training data. The answer of just learning a new skill will not hold up forever. That window will continue to shrink. > anyone becoming absolutely dependent on LLM models to do their job may find themselves in a world of hurt if those models suddenly become unavailable for some reason. This can be said of every technology.
- croes 4y agoBut some technologies can more easily become unavailable, especially if they mainly exist as a web service. MS could remove PowerPoint from Office 365 at anytime if they wish, my local Office installation is harder to kill.
- 13years 4y agoThere are already multiple models and open source versions of the LLMs. Becoming unavailable would seem to be a highly unlikely outcome.