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It will undoubtedly be a turbulent time. All the skills and knowledge expressed in text or images is compressed into models. And these models offer back all the

It will undoubtedly be a turbulent time. All the skills and knowledge expressed in text or images is compressed into models. And these models offer back all they know to each of us according to our needs. Learning from everyone indiscriminately, serving everyone specifically, open sourcing skills and knowledge to a much deeper degree than open source had on software. This will have social implications, it will speed up the learning process of any new technology. For example by upgrading Copilot, Github can upgrade coding practices everywhere (where it's used) to new coding standards instead of taking years, that's how fast it can go. On another line of thinking, an image-language-action model can be used to control robots, and robot hardware is getting accessible. There is a chance for inventing self reliance automation for people, a possible solution to job loss.

beepbooptheory 3y ago
Right, there are lots of things it could do, but the point is that these capabilities, or rather this potential, is merely necessary but not sufficient for actually following through with those nice things. It doesn't matter what it can do when there is a truly scary amount of power and interest directed towards, e.g., making sure job loss (or unemployment in general) doesn't change too much. They'll make these things illegal before they'd let it get even close to messing something like that up! There are already so many innovations and pieces of technology that could be helping instead of hurting. It should seem clear that the sheer capability of something could never be enough to change the state of affairs alone. Sure the printing press was critical, but there was also a whole lot of blood shed and tumultuous times before the enlightened subject of the printing press could enjoy their new class and literacy.

beepbooptheory 3y ago

Right, there are lots of things it could do, but the point is that these capabilities, or rather this potential, is merely necessary but not sufficient for actually following through with those nice things. It doesn't matter what it can do when there is a truly scary amount of power and interest directed towards, e.g., making sure job loss (or unemployment in general) doesn't change too much. They'll make these things illegal before they'd let it get even close to messing something like that up! There are already so many innovations and pieces of technology that could be helping instead of hurting. It should seem clear that the sheer capability of something could never be enough to change the state of affairs alone. Sure the printing press was critical, but there was also a whole lot of blood shed and tumultuous times before the enlightened subject of the printing press could enjoy their new class and literacy.