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I wonder if work marketplaces like UpWork and Fiverr will adapt quickly enough to this new situation, where many of their services, which in the past were done
by mg 3y ago
I wonder if work marketplaces like UpWork and Fiverr will adapt quickly enough to this new situation, where many of their services, which in the past were done by humans, can now be done by software.
Their current marketplace interface seems inadequate for this. Instead of contacting a human and then wait for them to finish the work, buyers will want to get results right away.
Therefore they will have to change their platform to work like an app store. Where the sellers connect their services and buyers can use these services.
- throw47474777j 3y agoWhy wouldn't people just use existing software markets?
- mg 3y agoFor example?
- throw47474777j 3y agoApp Stores, the web, etc. How else does software as a service get sold? It’s not a new thing. Probably a lot of these things will just end up as features in existing systems.
- mg 3y agoExisting appstores like the ones on iOS and Android mostly target casual use cases, mobile devices and on-device software. Not "buy once" experiences for work via software as a service. They also do not offer a unified experience. Two "text-to-speach" apps could have completely different user interfaces. The web does not have good discovery and reputation management and also does not provide a unified interface. That is why market places like Booking.com, Amazon, Spotify etc have become so big.
- Legend2440 3y agoWhy does everybody focus on "how will this replace humans?" It's just a really good text-to-speech.
- ImHereToVote 3y agoPersonally I can't wait for all the streets to be lined with the homeless like in SF. So good.
- akaij 3y agoIt's kinda sad to see you believe that this is the inevitable outcome.
- pjmlp 3y agoWell, if we imagine that the only thing that will be left are physical jobs that can't be done by computers. At least until they get clever enough to start a transformers line factory.
- Legend2440 3y agoThis is the lump of labor fallacy. It's not about "what jobs will be left", it's about the new jobs we'll invent with all the time we'll have on our hands. There was never a fixed number of jobs, there's a fixed number of workers.
- pjmlp 3y agoWell, we can also return to feudalism.
- ImHereToVote 3y agoI didn't think you understand. We aren't about to automate all things humans can "currently" do. We are about to automate everything that separates us from a brick. What can possibly be left, and why would an unemployed person pay for whatever what is left?
- seydor 3y ago> where many of their services, which in the past were done by humans, can now be done by software. Their users are already using AI to do the work that they are supposed to do. i think that's fine
- bleepblop 3y agoWhere I see the benefit is in dialogue replacement. It takes a lot of time to call back an actor to the stage after they have finished the project. They might have moved onto another project or depending on how in demand they are they have a tight schedule and you're time with them is limited. Then on top of all that, some actors are just not very good at the process. So you have them in a room for a long time trying to get the right performance; sometimes which is difficult because that performance was done in some type of specific environment. Having a tool at my fingertips where I can feed it some of the actor's previous lines and be able to belch out something to fill the gaps with set parameters and be able to move along in the project without all the logistics would be heaven. It would however, kill an entire field of expertise. It would also devalue the actor as well. Though it's already happening. There are already programs on the market that replace voice actors all together and are being used in the video game space. For the work I do, I can see the benefits it could bring. But I am also fully aware it probably will be heavily abused.