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I'm not observing a situation of people massively losing their jobs or losing money. If you do, feel free to share your experience. So far, the AI technology ha

I'm not observing a situation of people massively losing their jobs or losing money. If you do, feel free to share your experience. So far, the AI technology has been a nice toy/support for the people.

lewhoo 3y ago
This is true but the "prophecy" is this is unavoidable due to rapid development and no ceiling in sight.
claudiulodro 3y ago
Anecdotally I hear that freelance article writing dried up pretty quickly now that you can just ask GPT "write an article about my dry cleaning company in Phoenix" and similar bottom-of-the-barrel content tasks.
2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
For the first time in history a machine can come up with novel ideas. Up until now, you were only really automating away the boring stuff.
- zlg_codes 3y ago
  Since when can a computer come up with a novel idea? Do not be fooled by GPT, it's a fancy Markov chain hooked up to training data. It cannot come up with anything that wasn't already in its data set.
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  - rafaelero 3y ago
    GPT-4 is around the 99th percentile on creative thinking.[1] [1] https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/07/070523test.php https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/07/070523test.php
  - 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol “AlphaGo showed anomalies and moves from a broader perspective which professional Go players described as looking like mistakes at the first sight but an intentional strategy in hindsight.” Doesn’t matter if the data was already there if a human overlooks it. It took an AI to do something that everyone thought was a mistake at first.
  - ImHereToVote 3y ago
    Can you?
    - zlg_codes 3y ago
      Yes, I think most people can come up with a somewhat novel idea. A lot has been done, so there are fewer novel ideas than there were 10000 years ago, but I see little reason why a human cannot come up with a novel idea. It's not even the ideas that are valuable, it's making them happen. I can think up tons of things, but lack the resources to make any of them happen.
zlg_codes 3y ago
Ever boiled a frog?
daniel_reetz 3y ago
Respectfully, AI is a core issue in the strikes in Hollywood right now, and a whole industry has been out of work for months now.
- paxys 3y ago
  AI is very far from a "core issue" in those strikes, but merely something that is being thrown around as a bargaining chip (the actual issue is the streaming business and how it affects the entertainment economy). Not a single writer or actor to date has lost their job because of or been replaced by AI.
mplewis 3y ago
Are you not? Over 50% of people in the USA are living paycheck to paycheck with no emergency fund. Perhaps look a little harder.

lewhoo 3y ago

This is true but the "prophecy" is this is unavoidable due to rapid development and no ceiling in sight.

claudiulodro 3y ago

Anecdotally I hear that freelance article writing dried up pretty quickly now that you can just ask GPT "write an article about my dry cleaning company in Phoenix" and similar bottom-of-the-barrel content tasks.

2muchcoffeeman 3y ago

For the first time in history a machine can come up with novel ideas. Up until now, you were only really automating away the boring stuff.

zlg_codes 3y ago
Since when can a computer come up with a novel idea? Do not be fooled by GPT, it's a fancy Markov chain hooked up to training data. It cannot come up with anything that wasn't already in its data set.
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- rafaelero 3y ago
  GPT-4 is around the 99th percentile on creative thinking.[1] [1] https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/07/070523test.php https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/07/070523test.php
- 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo_versus_Lee_Sedol “AlphaGo showed anomalies and moves from a broader perspective which professional Go players described as looking like mistakes at the first sight but an intentional strategy in hindsight.” Doesn’t matter if the data was already there if a human overlooks it. It took an AI to do something that everyone thought was a mistake at first.
- ImHereToVote 3y ago
  Can you?
  - zlg_codes 3y ago
    Yes, I think most people can come up with a somewhat novel idea. A lot has been done, so there are fewer novel ideas than there were 10000 years ago, but I see little reason why a human cannot come up with a novel idea. It's not even the ideas that are valuable, it's making them happen. I can think up tons of things, but lack the resources to make any of them happen.

zlg_codes 3y ago

Ever boiled a frog?

daniel_reetz 3y ago

Respectfully, AI is a core issue in the strikes in Hollywood right now, and a whole industry has been out of work for months now.

paxys 3y ago
AI is very far from a "core issue" in those strikes, but merely something that is being thrown around as a bargaining chip (the actual issue is the streaming business and how it affects the entertainment economy). Not a single writer or actor to date has lost their job because of or been replaced by AI.

mplewis 3y ago

Are you not? Over 50% of people in the USA are living paycheck to paycheck with no emergency fund. Perhaps look a little harder.