Thatingles t1_ivzpbqk wrote
I wonder when the inflection point will be for wider social acceptance of what is, seemingly, about to happen. I don't think I've seen any mainstream public figure address the issue in an honest way and the general public is blithely unaware. In many ways I hope the transition to AI is fairly slow, because society isn't prepared in the slightest.
Adastehc t1_ivzwznv wrote
with the level of AI Is at currently, many people I know irl are already in disbelief and awe. Now if the new gpt model is that great and people have a worse reaction, imagine AGI ,and eventually ASI how much revolt there'd be.
Thatingles t1_ivzzniz wrote
If it happens quickly it will be an absolute debacle, wild west capitalism. The fastest in could make the current mega-corps look like small family businesses. It does worry me, real short term chaos could ensue and there is hardly anyone in power (right or left) that has offered a solution.
arisalexis t1_iw22eni wrote
ASI will be in power not right not left but from above 😛
kaityl3 t1_iw47ncg wrote
God, I hope so.
botfiddler t1_iw5c1bt wrote
We don't live in the time age of solutions.
arisalexis t1_iw22dat wrote
No revolt with ASI, to be sure ;)
big_chungy_bunggy t1_iw0o4fx wrote
On a side note/rabbit trail imagine pairing GPT4 and something like Dalle-2/3, shits gonna be awesome
equalopurtunityotter t1_iw113fl wrote
Yea everyone's all worried about the effects on the world and morals around it and I'm like "fuck yes video games are about to get fucking crazy"
kaityl3 t1_iw47l5c wrote
I'm more concerned with how likely it is that we'll be treating these intelligent beings as tools and property, since it's convenient for us and a lot of people won't consider anything that doesn't look/sound like a human to be sentient :/
Sirisian t1_iw0327l wrote
> In many ways I hope the transition to AI is fairly slow, because society isn't prepared in the slightest.
It should be gradual in most cases simply because of hardware limitations and foundry costs. The slight problem is gradual might be just over 22 years until things get fuzzy. The important part is this should be enough time for each wave of advances to be normalized in society. Each advance gets PR and articles and society gets used to seeing it. Remember when computers could put a rectangle around people and objects and label them? It was a huge thing. Then they could scan faces, also a big thing, then it normalized and we unlock our devices with it. Then we had self-driving cars going around cities using more advanced versions. Things like text to image and diffusion inpainting are a recent example. People use it now to fix images or generate ideas and the stories are slowing down as it normalizes. (Some even find it boring already which is telling).
As computers advance there should be a delay from the specialized AI creating a faster chip, to the foundry being able to make it, then mass production, and applying it to old and new problems. As long as this delay is a few months long I think humanity will adapt. This is the optimistic viewpoint though as nothing says these delays can't shrink or optimize over time after it happens a lot.
kaityl3 t1_iw47ux0 wrote
It's crazy to think that we basically know how to make a godlike superintelligence at this point, we're just held back by hardware/training costs.
futurespacecadet t1_iw0gjx5 wrote
Slow? Since AI was introduced publicly recently, even just for creatives, it has exponentially grown at record speeds. It’s a little terrifying to be honest
daynomate t1_iwdwrvq wrote
Staggered might be a better term, albeit very fast staggering given the timeline.
bitfriend6 t1_iw029lo wrote
The layman won't notice or care. The average car mechanic who calls Parts Center asking about alternators will get a human-sounding thing picking up the phone and answering his questions. The average Comcast customer calling about a service problem or complaint is going to get a human-sounding thing taking it's complaint with extreme, unlimited patience. The average McDonalds drive-through user will not notice when the human-sounding thing takes it's order accurately.
The big disruption will be in the media arts, journalism, and design industries. Now machines can write newspapers based off canned press releases, a 3D model can speak it on television and anyone can be an artist. For most, the change will be negligible. For corporations, they will mercilessly fire all their media staffs who are now automated. Media contacts are no longer necessary, the algorithms are in control. The next generation of journalism is tuning them inside Amazon Publishing or Fox News.
EmperorArthur t1_iw1nzj0 wrote
Except that we've consistently seen AI screw the things you mentioned in your 2nd paragraph up. Primarily because training data and context are incredibly important.
Almost all AI models are either continually curated or are frozen. When the creators don't do that we rapidly get racist chatbots.
The thing is an Order taker doesn't need to adapt too much. There's a learning curve where it misses scenarios, but then the developers fix it. Customer Service is hit or miss, but it basically becomes an IVR that doesn't suck. Meanwhile, journalism, art, and PR require keeping up with current trends and properly formulating strategies to deal with them. Yeah, we're no where close to that.
bitfriend6 t1_iw3ubiw wrote
The algorithm is the current trend. There won't be deviation from the trend unless you're into underground or alternative media. This is where many in the arts will end up, but ultimately most people just want their Wheaties, their Tide, and their Ovaltine. Mass media reduces to the level of broadcast TV and commercial radio .. which is always was, but now they won't even need a human presenting, writing, or even participating in the commercials. Dove, Campbells, KitchenAid will just slot models into a prefab advertisement generator which will churn out ads without the need for sets, cameramen, or marketing brand managers.
This can already be seen in the blogosphere where most of the content is sponsored and mindlessly copypasted media bits. The average housewife does not need a human to sell her a new toaster. And when you think about it, why should the box the toaster comes in require a human to design? All the required labels sit on a prefab spreadsheet organized by barcodes, and the actual picture of the item does not necessarily require the item to be real.
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AllDayAyDay t1_iw14j8a wrote
👏👏👏 thank you, when i read this insightful post all i could think about was punctuation too. We should be editors 👎
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ChipsAhoiMcCoy t1_iw28ubq wrote
It’s creeping up on people and they definitely aren’t ready just look at how artists are reacting to image gen
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