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Everyone should read this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/ https://www.reddit.com/r

Everyone should read this Reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_everything_that_made_me_love_my_job/ https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/121lhfq/i_lost_eve... This is happening, and the reddit thread is just a single instance of a wide phenomenon. I wonder how one can square "snakeoil" theories against reality like this.

flangola7 3y ago
My company has openly bragged they predicted they would need to hire over 200 employees this year, and AI systems meant they only had to hire 45.
numpad0 3y ago
Maybe the reality isn't evenly distributed. I'm supposedly at the working end of that job and can't immediately recall seeing the result of that transition.
slfnflctd 3y ago
> just a single instance of a wide phenomenon Another instance is the 'hey pi' chatbot. For some people it's a superior experience to BetterHelp, or even a lot of so-called professional therapists out there. The lack of actual human presence is a bit deflating for me, but I still got a good session out of it once. It feels like it has the potential to be at least better than nothing for some of the lonely people out there. The option for different voices is a nice touch that adds to the illusion. There are so many possibilities. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with everything from NPCs in video games to robotics (among other things, to actually explain what they're doing & why, and converse). Not to mention the applications in education and health care. Anyone who thinks this is a flash in the pan has not observed enough of what's going on.
satvikpendem 3y ago
Most jobs in human history were not labors of passion, it is only in very recent history that it is so. We should not expect it to be the case that people will love their job, as not all loves are employable, as OP in the thread is finding out. While OP might dislike it, there are many others who will fill their space if OP leaves that job or industry, those that actually enjoy what they do. Contrast that to the people on https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion, where people willingly experiment with multiple approaches to media generation. At least some of those people will be interested in 3D modeling and will willingly take OP's job, because they genuinely enjoy it and OP now does not. In the end, adapt, or others who do will take over. That's been the historical precedent for millennia, and it will not stop now.
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shloked 3y ago
Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) had a decent analogy for what AI is doing to creative fields in the No Priors Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH95LKOILgE&t=2626s&ab_channel=NoPriors%3AAI%2CMachineLearning%2CTech%2C%26Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH95LKOILgE&t=2626s&ab_chann...: The camera is the best metaphor. In the 19th century, being an artist was a real thing; it was really a technical field. You were a portrait painter and the best artists would study for years to be as accurate to reality as you could - look at how the light moves and all of that. All of a sudden, the camera comes out and artists fear this is the end of art because this new thing can capture reality better than anyone can. But then very quickly, people realized that in some ways this liberates the artists. It's not a coincidence that the impressionist movement coincided with the advent of the camera. People realized it's not about capturing reality but the expression and feelings conjured. This led to an explosion about what art is and come out of the trap about painting, nobility, and grand scenes into things that really evoke and challenge us. People are now saying AI can write pretty well. It can code pretty well. It can create movies, images pretty well. What that tells me is that it liberates the creator to move beyond that. Someone can elevate and integrate and manage these tools.

flangola7 3y ago

My company has openly bragged they predicted they would need to hire over 200 employees this year, and AI systems meant they only had to hire 45.

numpad0 3y ago

Maybe the reality isn't evenly distributed. I'm supposedly at the working end of that job and can't immediately recall seeing the result of that transition.

slfnflctd 3y ago

> just a single instance of a wide phenomenon Another instance is the 'hey pi' chatbot. For some people it's a superior experience to BetterHelp, or even a lot of so-called professional therapists out there. The lack of actual human presence is a bit deflating for me, but I still got a good session out of it once. It feels like it has the potential to be at least better than nothing for some of the lonely people out there. The option for different voices is a nice touch that adds to the illusion. There are so many possibilities. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens with everything from NPCs in video games to robotics (among other things, to actually explain what they're doing & why, and converse). Not to mention the applications in education and health care. Anyone who thinks this is a flash in the pan has not observed enough of what's going on.

satvikpendem 3y ago

Most jobs in human history were not labors of passion, it is only in very recent history that it is so. We should not expect it to be the case that people will love their job, as not all loves are employable, as OP in the thread is finding out. While OP might dislike it, there are many others who will fill their space if OP leaves that job or industry, those that actually enjoy what they do. Contrast that to the people on https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion, where people willingly experiment with multiple approaches to media generation. At least some of those people will be interested in 3D modeling and will willingly take OP's job, because they genuinely enjoy it and OP now does not. In the end, adapt, or others who do will take over. That's been the historical precedent for millennia, and it will not stop now.

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shloked 3y ago

Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) had a decent analogy for what AI is doing to creative fields in the No Priors Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH95LKOILgE&t=2626s&ab_channel=NoPriors%3AAI%2CMachineLearning%2CTech%2C%26Startups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH95LKOILgE&t=2626s&ab_chann...: The camera is the best metaphor. In the 19th century, being an artist was a real thing; it was really a technical field. You were a portrait painter and the best artists would study for years to be as accurate to reality as you could - look at how the light moves and all of that. All of a sudden, the camera comes out and artists fear this is the end of art because this new thing can capture reality better than anyone can. But then very quickly, people realized that in some ways this liberates the artists. It's not a coincidence that the impressionist movement coincided with the advent of the camera. People realized it's not about capturing reality but the expression and feelings conjured. This led to an explosion about what art is and come out of the trap about painting, nobility, and grand scenes into things that really evoke and challenge us. People are now saying AI can write pretty well. It can code pretty well. It can create movies, images pretty well. What that tells me is that it liberates the creator to move beyond that. Someone can elevate and integrate and manage these tools.