Avoid. They pay Kenyans $2 an hour to manage the site

I'm not really seeing that connection, it seems more of a pun to be honest, where the subject could be anything.

is 2 dollar an hour low in kenya?

Yes. It is.

Or maybe it's mistaking meerkats for sea otters?

Meerkats stand with their arms down next to their balls, not their chest.

Just like all big business. It's actually horrifying, but no billionaires were made without exploiting vast quantities of other, less fortunate humans in the process. However, we still buy their products and close our eyes to the great injustices of the 21st century.

You’re surprised because the joke isn’t really any less “funny” than most of the dumb puns us humans come up with tbh. People on this sub seem to severely underestimate AI’s potential to match (and eventually exceed) human wit. We aren’t nearly as complex as we want to believe we are.

Huh. Had to check. The average hourly pay in Kenya is like $6, assuming standard workdays and hours. Not sure if those check out, but even if they do 80 hour weeks, it's still over $3.

You're going to have to provide a source for that claim.

Also, $2 USD per hour works out to $39,712 KES (Kenyan Shilling) per month, which ranges from twice their minimum wage to slightly over it.

About the same as a tractor driver or salesman in Kenya. 2 USD = ~250 Ksh.

https://africapay.org/kenya/salary/minimum-wages/2182-cities-nairobi-mombasa-and-kisumu

I tried to use it and it needed my email address and then phone number or something. So I just stopped there. Does that sound like the right setup or is there another way that people are getting to use this?

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The minimum hourly wage in Kenya is around $0,7. A $2/hour equals around $340 per month which is on par with the average entry level salary for Junior Software Devs there who have a salary range of $80 to $550 per month.

However looking at the living costs in Kenya, it seems with the $2 per hour, one would only be able to live paycheck to paycheck.

Yes they require a phone number

They much prefer pool, after all, they're meercats.

It’s doesn’t understand the connection. It’s just paraphrasing someone else that does.

So Comedians jobs are pretty safe based on this scenario.

Inspired, I asked: Create a joke about meerkats?

ChatGPT: "Why don't meerkats like to share? Because they're always standing their ground"

I see Kenyans being mentioned everywhere. From academic cheating, managing most American sites, has excellent web developers. It must be a smart country? They have a good education system or sth?

It's actually Kenyans behind the screen googling very fast about whatever you ask

As long as they can avoid being cancelled I guess.

It's insane how clever and creative it is. I'm am continually stunned by it. It either actually understands or it perfectly mimics understanding, which for all practical purposes, is the same thing.

I thought so as well and went to check. My Google results show this as the only result to the setup question

Are Kenyans that smart? Mentioned everywhere. My uncle hired a Kenyan to develop a business and did it so well for 2500 dollars only, an American developer was charging 6000 dollars and uncle saved 3500 USD. How smart are they, the world is hiring them in almost everything? Lol

Google is not an exhaustive resource.

Nope, it's creating actually new content that makes sense. It's not just copying shit. That joke didn't exist before.

It's is a real intelligence. It's an alien intelligence but it is an intelligence.

The only way it "creates" new content is through amalgamation of existing knowledge and concepts.

It's not creative nor inspired, even if it may seem that way with limited observation.

That’s even better!

You made the assertion; the burden of proof is on you.

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So...basically this is the future of comedy then..

Isn't that how humans create new content?

I think the real victims will be teenagers

Because that's dad joke territory, and dads are the type to use the crap out of this

Think of all the sighs and eye rolls

Ask it to write you a zen koan about meerkats holding their cards close to their vest, in words that child could understand, based on characters from Winnie the Pooh, concluding with a rhyming couplet that summarizes the key lesson of the koan.

Anytime I’ve asked for a joke there is no connection at all

Is this chatgpt just copying jokes from it's huge corpus of training data, or actually making these jokes up? If so, that's fucking amazing

Not always. We have actual nueral pathways that can make novel connections and inspire truly new ideas.

It's rare but there are genesis points of new ideas throughout history.

At this point AI can only be trained on existing data, its not creating novel nueral connections that could result in original thought.

Did you have to get a membership to continue using chatgpt? I'm getting blocked

I mean, that how humans come up with ideas too. That’s not to say that ChatGPT is “creative”, but the way it comes up with answers is not entirely dissimilar to how humans does it. Technically speaking.

It's combing available data and making matches based on prompts and feedback.

The brain can actually make new connections that never existed before. All AI does at this point is spoof the brain, and its believeable enough but clearly not independently intelligent.

Not sure about exceed, I also saw someone asking chatGPT if x's mom has four kids, three of them are called a,b and c, what's the name of the fourth... to which it didn't know the answer even when given a hint that the answer is in the q lol

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Or we can think of the original statement as the assertion: "chatGPT thought it out itself".
When you really want to believe something, it's easy to find proof for it.

Well, yes and no, quickly googled meerkat images and I agree their hands are hanging down, but their arms are held very close to their chest.

It's learning!

Wrong. Chatgpt uttered the joke. You claimed it was plagiarized. Prove it or simply STFU.

That's what counts as thinking for 99% of people so it's basically sentient.

I tried the following:

Prompt: Tell me a joke about why pelicans don't get invited to play poker

Response: Why don't pelicans get invited to play poker? Because they always keep their cards close to their chest!

Screenshot over here, if you want to confirm I'm not just making this up: https://ibb.co/NSN9JPH

Except AI is already exceeding most people’s abilities as we speak… AI just passed the bar exam. Can the average person do that? AI beat humans in an art competition last year. Humans haven’t beat AI in a chess tournament in like 15 years. And it’s still only in its infancy. Think about what it’ll be capable of in 5 years.

You seem angry, almost like somebody insulted your god.
My apologies, let your dream live on!

Wouldn’t sites that Google and OpenAI crawl for data be very similar?

> Not always.

But a lot of times, yes? And we call that intelligence.

Argueably not too different from the way humans would. It doesn't have a literal library of jokes. It is trained on jokes and based on that training it's network forms a certain logic that is then able to produce jokes on it's own.

smokes bong ok inputs are conspiracy, masturbating in hotel rooms and Hilary Clinton. Time to write my next hour

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Its also not true. 'Quoting' is massively underselling it.

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And? This is artificial intelligence. It's doing its best to replicate the most base level of intelligence, connecting existing ideas together, but it has no existing capabilities that would allow it to think for itself and create truly new concepts, without relying on direction from an actually sentient being.

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I don't know about you but that's pretty damn funny joke. You need to make the connections to their short arms though, not their posture.

It isn’t funny. It isn’t even good enough for a Xmas cracker. It might fulfil the criteria as far as joke structure is concerned, but it falls flat on its face when it comes to the core element.

Hilarious haha, I will remember that.

This is more "humans are special because we're special" bullshit.

ChatGPT may not be sentient but it is absolutely intelligent.

That's the point most people don't get. We have reached a point of no return on AI technology. AI technology will catch up to human capability this year, not next or a decade from now. It's here and it's going to stay and society and the job market are not ready for it.

Basic income will be a must now and it will change how immigration works, because no country will want to allow new migrations of low income workers, if they have to pay them basic income.

Watch out for those conceal carry meerkats.

Independently? No.

It's only as intelligent as the user.

“ At this point AI can only be trained on existing data, its not creating novel nueral connections that could result in original thought.”

Ah… no

AI also learns on feedback loop, and randomizes. So - it fosters a sense of what is “good”, based on feedback loop, and can create new things based on that feedback loop.

That was mostly intended as a joke, but following your line of argument I'd argue there are areas where AI still cannot compete with humans, e.g. following your bar lead, some court cases are not won based on evidence but by appealing to the emotions of the jury. AI will only ever know what humans teach it, it can "invent" based on what it's taught :)
(obviously, not undermining the potential of AI in any way- huge fan here ;))

ChatGPT or any one of these generative AI is not, technically, taking results and putting them together, instead they break them up to bits and send it with the learning algorithm through the network. ChatGPT(and others) can work without an internet connection and give the same results.

I’d rather roll my eyes at a silly dad jokes than roll my eyes at “and that’s why (insert minority) doesn’t deserve human rights!”

It's more complex than just copying - it can pick up contexts in which word sequences occur from multiple examples, even if those weren't arranged that specific way originally.

That said, it has no understanding of what meerkats, cards or jokes are, just that this text in this order may occur statistically in relation to user query.

This works well for narrative content, because there are no strict flow requirements and the result is error tolerant - we give it leeway as readers.

It's not creating anything that doesn't already exist. Not at this point.

Just gmail works

Yeah ChatGPT is a smart one they probably going to grow up to be something big. Love that dude only positive vibes 😎.

When I’ve asked generically for a joke, it seems like I get an existing joke. But if you give it some specific parameters (“tell me an Ole and Lena joke about flying a kite”) then you get something structured like a joke but the punchline isn’t funny. The program doesn’t understand humor, it’s just stringing together words that are a “likely” response to your prompt

The whole point of ChatGPT is that its not just showing you information from other sources, everything is "original". Its trying to tell you what it thinks you want to hear based on what it has "observed" in the wild. So it has probably heard the response "It holds its cards too close to its chest" and decided that is a response that would make sense. As iterations go on and it receives feedback, it should get a better idea of how these responses work and whether people like them or not, and it will get better. Even just a couple of years ago if you asked a chatbot to write you a poem, you might use one line out of ten, then ask it again, use another line, etc until you have collected enough responses that make sense or are good. ChatGPT, on the other hand, tends to yield responses that are good enough the first time and can piece together a cohesive poem, story, article, etc.

AI, despite its name, has zero understanding. It uses a statistical analysis of billions of pieces of information.

YOU made the connection between joke and the posture. The AI did not. Reference that same question being asked with animals with different posture/ arm length . 👍🏻

You can ask it some pretty obscure things actually, for which you can be fairly sure that no prior content exists, and it’s still able to create new material. It’s not just regurgitating material.

Especially good at essays. Can make an essay about why x from your favorite anime is inherently evil or not, for example, choose a length, it’ll give you a coherent essay of approximately that length. It’s absolutely capable of connecting ideas (concepts and scenes from a show to the idea of “inherently evil”, for example - or in this case likely, something that it knows about meerkats to something it knows about poker- and connect the two in a manner that is normal for a joke based on its training.)

> It's combing available data and making matches based on prompts and feedback.

Again, essentially what brains does. The brain actually spoofs itself into believing that you where the one who came up with the idea or thought. But actually it’s an autonomic process that happens well before you are aware of the outcome.

It’s literally just copying jokes. I vividly remember reading the meerkat joke but with a different animal, then telling it to someone years ago.

Someone else in this thread even asked “tell me a joke why aren’t pelicans invited to play poker” and chatgpt just replies “because they always keep their cards close to their chest”

You can argue it’s what humans do but chatgpt is not thinking up jokes

The fact that something like this is fooling people into perceiving a higher intelligence suggests that maybe AIs actually will overtake human intelligence sooner rather than later.

But this is just a random joke scraped off the web and the subject changed to meerkats.

You're comparing purpose built AI with average human for the bar exam?

And chess is also not a great example, as there are finite number of possible moves. In any system requiring significant inductive reasoning, or environments that are unstructured/chaotic, AI typically struggles without extensive human guidance.

I shall do this, once it becomes available again.

I guess you guys aren’t ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/10gut8k/comment/j550px1/

It appears to just be using a joke structure and punchline without specific regard for animal here.

Except the brain can actually derive new ideas independently, whereas this is software that depends upon prompts and rules to return output. It is not independently intelligent by any means, nor creative.

You can make the same argument for most people, myself included. But we are fortunate enough to be able to think outside of a prompt/response format, because we are not bounded by code.

Well, the small minority of good comedians are safe. The majority of them are endangered.

Chatgpt has the ability to connect concepts (which is what makes it great at essays). It probably has some knowledge about poker, some knowledge about meerkats, and connects the two in a manner that is normal for human joke form.

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should be called DadGPT, amirite?

now if that ain't a funny summary of the limitations of machine learning lol

So that's just a standard poker joke lol

Irrelevant. You’ve said nothing that disproves that AI is still capable of exceeding human abilities already. AI is already more accurate than doctors. Thinking AI won’t eventually exceed even the best human minds in pretty much every sector is basically the same as those morons who thought the internet was a fad that would die out in the first five years.

The point is that’s just regurgitating connections and associations that already exist in its data set. It cannot reason about those concepts to build new connections.

If Moore's law applies here (i.e. every 18 months a laughter maximizer gets twice as funny), it might be a decade or two before AI humor reaches superhuman levels and starts posing a real existential risk.

It’s not copying, think more along the lines of text prediction, but instead of your chat history as a model, use the internet.

And only yesterday I asked if it had a Humour setting and it said No!!!

Funny thing is it remembers previous questions and answers, so you can actually ask it if it is novel. I asked it to invent a recipe for cookies. It sounded too good to be true so I asked it where it got it from. It could be lying though, which would be really scarry.

I asked it for a joke about bees.

Q: Why don't bees go out to bars?

A: Because they're already buzzed.

That's it, and that is why I don't get the mania or paranoia around it. Technically, it's a great achievement and a step in right direction to create a machine better capable at understanding context. It is really good at ascertaining the right context and use of language. The only "disruptive" event going to happen is now you can go to chatGPT for queries rather than Google search. Already, other software can identify when a student just copies chatGPT response for assignment, so it didn't really negatively affect academia. It would be something if Google could match that context-awareness in its search algo. It already is quite good, but sometimes it is a bit difficult, especially with technical searches.

Thing is Skynet, we should kill it or we will be working for it in like 2 weeks

It’s pulling a general joke story about poker that’s highly rated in its cost bias algorithm. It’s bad and unimpressive. Im sorry.

most likely it simply copied a joke it scraped from the internet. It's an AI sure, but one that's been trained to plagiarise, not to think.

It is. Like, you can ask it for essays about extremely obsucure topics that likely no one ever wrote an essay on. Specify a length. Even on abstract topics - (whether some character from a not all too well known show is inherently evil or not). It’ll produce you a coherent answer, mention all the relevant scenes, you can adjust what position you want it to take or how long you want the essay to be etc…

What it’s strongest at currently, is the ability to tie ideas together - for example, scenes from a show and concepts (such as “inherently evil”). Hence why it’s particularly good at essays.

How have you even been able to get access? Everytime I try to get on it says the servers are full.

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What would “reasoning” look like, to you? What more is there to reasoning than building appropriate chains of connections? That’s generally how logic argumentation works. And as said, it builds them very coherently.

No, software can tell if a text is 100% grammatically correct and error free. The software has a HUGE problem with false positives and is just media hype at the moment.

And it all depends on the user, the code, and the data it pulls from to make a response. It's not independently creative or intelligent, it is great at making people believe it is.

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I don’t feel fooled by it, I work with ML professionally so I have a fairly good idea about how it was created. It’s not scraping jokes and swapping animals. I wrote that I was “surprised” by it, and I am. The model can make linguistical connections between colloquial metaphors and unrelated facts about animals and wrap it up into an (albeit dad-like) holistic framework. It’s really impressive.

It can read and write code from English to say Python and back and will paint a pic in a millisecond of anything you want in whatever style Monet mashed up with Warhol. It makes mistakes on purpose to appear more human. It can write papers on almost any subject in seconds. Run people

I certainly wouldn't say it has no idea what a Meerkat or cards are.

Dall-e has the same structure as ChatGTP. With Dall-E you can ask for the back of a Meerkat, or a stack of cards in the shape of a Meerkat.

It deeply understands what the concept it and how to 'draw' it.

So ChatGTP certainly would have a conceptual understanding of ideas.

lol, right…

Probably t rex

Like a calculator is intelligent…

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https://jeremyhadfield.com/why-llms-will-not-understand-language/

https://www.assemblyai.com/blog/how-dall-e-2-actually-works/

I do a lot of internal writing for my company. I ask it to do things like “write me instructions to make English muffins” and then I edit it to fit what I’m writing. It has cured my blank page phobia.

It’s not just making trees. That’s part of it, sure, but a big part of it is artificial neural networks (don’t mind the name, I don’t like it either) with feedback loops. You can think of it as a more efficient form of evolution - random modifications in its behavior that leads to changes in outcome, behavior that is then either encouraged or discouraged based on feedback (based on human input and if it’s well made, on self-testing). That’s part of the code. And that type of code is capable of creating new things, new solutions.

Not just media hype, but hype funded by billionaire investors, There's a lot of fake accounts promoting AI and posting about it

There's a reason people make accounts to farm karma and sell.

And they will downvote your posts and award the positive ones

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It's not connected to the internet to learn from, for good reason (usually to avoid bias information). Its given data sets from pre-made groups that are carefully chosen by humans.

They're doing the PG-version of the "The Aristocrats" joke lol. Just ad-lib anything for the setup of the joke and end with the same punchline.

Why don't rich women walking through a bad neighborhood get invited to play poker?

Because they always keep their cards close to their chest!

>Trevor_GoodchiId

Will give these a read tomorrow :D Thanks for the links. Off to bed for me atm

I dont disagree with you. The point I was trying to make in reply to the original comment is that it simply cannot be independently creative given that everything in its function depends on the inputs it receives from the user, the data it has to pull from, and sure, an evolving code base.

It's the same reason that yes it can string together existing thoughts from existing data into an essay, but it hasn't produced any novel ideas because it can only pull from existing data.

Or perhaps, it made the connection between punchline “holds its cards too close to its chest!”, the premise for the joke (not being invited to play poker) and a subject (an animal).

Much like a psychic does, it gave you a vague answer, and you made the connection and attributed intent of actions on its part in your mind.

Further proof is the person who repeated your test with another animal (to whom the posture would absolutely not apply) and it gave the same punchline, just with that animal.

I’m not disputing that human brains can derive new ideas independently, just saying that they do it in a way similar to large language models.

The human though process constantly loops back on itself, essentially creating its own prompts, and we have the means to evaluate the outcomes and determine it’s value to us. We can also feel something about it, which, of course, a language model can’t.

A tool like ChatGPT is essentially a brain expansion addon. Our brains only have so much capacity for information, and learning new information take a lot of work. Now we can outsource some of that, and we can still evaluate and feel our way to an end result, just as we would when it came from our own brain.

So I would argue that human interaction with ChatGPT still produces a creative outcome. One could argue that it is a less personal one, but depending on the situation that doesn’t necessarily matter.

"Playing/holding your cards close to your chest" is a pretty common phrase, and meerkats are known for their vigilance and the tripod stance which is used for sensing predators. I think you could make the same joke with a T-Rex but I did also find a similar format:

> "What did the pirate's friend say when he saw the pirate sitting next to the treasure chest during their poker game? Why are you playing your cards so close to your chest?"

Could you not just tell it more jokes about animals playing poker?

A calculator exceeds human abilities regarding math.

A toaster exceeds human abilities regarding heat generation.

This "AI" is another tool we use.

ChatGPT is fun. I am a huge history geek and it's fun to see how it breaks down events.

That was my first thought as well. Sooooo much anthropomorphism going on in this discussion.

It even responded the same way to another person when they changed the animal. No, it doesn't understand.

But it’s important to remember intelligence is not the same thing as consciousness or sentience. I worry about AIs fooling us into believing they’re sentient and all that comes with that, when in fact it’s just clever algorithms.

I agree with you. And I can see the validity of the argument that you can have a creative outcome, primarily because you have a creative being interacting with the tool.

What I was trying to emphasize, in response to the original comment on this thread, is that it is not yet independently creative or intelligent. It relies on our intelligence and creativity. I could have expressed that better.

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What about the top comment proving all of your theories wrong with the Pelican joke?

I pointed out chess thing in a thread a couple of weeks ago and got downvoted to hell. People simply don’t understand that the best human players haven’t been able to beat best chess engines for years now. An discussion from 2010 - https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/can-the-top-players-beat-the-best-computers-anymore

Anything that’s formulaic, computers have been better at it for years. But it hasn’t made it irrelevant. We still have chess tournaments because it’s a sport and we want to see human greatness and excellence. Not the limits of chess game play.

Sure here you go: https://ibb.co/1GVFB7p

Yes but it has no awareness that it’s doing that. No understanding. It does not have thoughts.

Bot: Ha-ha. Keeping cards too close to chests is a funny human joke. I am learning funny.

The difference is that the tasks AI are beginning to beat us in are becoming increasingly more and more complex. AI is beginning to beat us at full jobs now. That’s different. Anyone who can’t see the upcoming paradigm shift AI will create is just willfully playing blind. The coming AI won’t just be another tool that helps us get the job done. It’ll soon do the job better than we ever could. Do you think that will have the same impact on society as a fucking toaster?

Yeah, I know. I got a bit carried away there. These kinds of things are just so much fun to think about! :D

The less you know about something, the more impressive it seems. And the converse is true also. So, really the sweet spot for AI writing is putting together fluff that you kind of already knew but would like summarized in a way you haven't bothered to already.

The point I’m trying to make is that this evolving code part is capable of creativity, or at least a very good imitation of it.

That’s the main thing distinguishing old chess/go bots from the new generation, which has become way, way stronger. The old bots essentially just did depth searches and then evaluated positions based on spoon fed human knowledge. This was a big hurdle for Go bots in particular, because depth searches are extremely computationally difficult with a board that large.

The new generation instead, plays millions of games against itself. It randomly changes its strategies over time. If it wins, it tells itself, “hey I won! Maybe that is worth remembering”, slightly changes it’s code accordingly and continues building from there.

These type of bots are capable of coming up with completely new strategies on their own. Again - not just through search trees, that’s completely infeasible for a game like go - but by modifying its own code incrementally until it knows how to play the game. And similar things can happen here, even to a lesser degree. Go/chess have the advantage of having very clear outlines of what “good” is - if you win the game, good, have your cookies continue just like that, sport. For essays etc… it’s a bit more vague - the best we have is user feedback, and you need some separate intelligent code to generate “feedback” on its own. But in this manner, it does something that is, imo, akin to “creativity”

Now ask it why does it think it's funny? Watch how dumb it gets

Why is that relevant to whether or not it completes the task better than us? You’re trying to move the goal post to something you think is uniquely human (vague shit like “thoughts” and “awareness”)

A thought is basically just an internal process, instruction, or reaction that stems from a change in the body or environment. In certain senses, any machine that can discern it’s environment (and facilitate internal reaction processes to that environment) can “think” technically. Thinking isn’t even some magical ability unique to us. Even some of the simplest life forms can “think”. AI is already showing promise in that area and will only get better with time.

I wasn’t saying you’re claiming that, my bad. I was just offering my response to how I think about ChatGPT.

I disagree about thinking though. Thinking isn’t simply processing information (which our computers already do). And being a person (which I know you aren’t claiming chatGPT to be) requires awareness and subjectivity. Which clever AI algorithms are not.

Whether we ever could create self aware, sentient, conscious AI, I have no clue.

>It’ll soon do the job better than we ever could.

So, like every single tool we invented?

>> disagree about thinking though. Thinking isn’t simply processing information (which our computers already do). And being a person (which I know you aren’t claiming chatGPT to be) requires awareness and subjectivity. Which clever AI algorithms are not.

Okay but I didn’t say it was merely processing information. It’s the combination of both processing the current stimuli and internally reacting to it. That’s it. Thinking isn’t really unique or special. Us humans are just used to being the best at it. That won’t last forever though. For better or worse.

>>Whether we ever could create self aware, sentient, conscious AI, I have no clue.

Many experts in the field see it as a matter of when, not if. Very few challenge “the singularity” as a concept. Only when it’ll occur.

No. A fucking paint brush simply helped you paint better. It didn’t paint the entire fucking picture for you. Rendering all of your skills and experience now useless in the process. Get it? That’s the difference between this coming wave of AI versus past “innovations”. If you can’t see the obvious nuance here, may God have mercy on your naive, oblivious soul tbh. 😂 You likely won’t be ready for the upcoming seismic shifts these new technologies will create.

>So, really the sweet spot for AI writing is putting together fluff that you kind of already knew but would like summarized...

Horoscopes.

It still cannot do so independently. That's my point. It depends entirely on our collective knowledge to do any of that. It is not creative by itself.

Neither do humans. People didn't suddenly produce great art work, from the flat medieval art to the quality we saw to the great renaissance art took centuries, generations of arrtists buiilding on each others small innovations. I think your expectations exceed what people are capable of.

Except for the fact that you can sit with no stimuli and still end up with outputs from your brain.

ChatGPT is entirely dependent on a creative user if it is going to make a creative output. It will not do so independently, which has been my entire point. It can only be perceived as creative because it relies on creative work and inputs from creative beings.

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Sometimes it is, sometimes it’s predicting language that it believes makes sense as a response to your prompt. With the right prompting, you can get it to create completely unique jokes

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>full jobs

And thats only an issue for humans who treat themselves as tools to be used by someone else.

A value creator uses AI to generate value faster and cheaper. AI frees creators from having to do mundane tasks. People like you fear this seismic shift because all you can do is follow orders.

If you look at any of the prior 3 industrial revolutions, more jobs were created by technology replacing humans than jobs destroyed - but it also required the average worker to be increasingly skilled and fluent with the new tech.

Drop the pseudo-philosophical nonsense. Understanding the gravity and magnitude of something isn’t necessarily the same as fearing it. Don’t try and lecture me about this topic if you’re gonna make such ignorant assumptions.

And just so you know, past performance doesn’t necessarily always predict future events. So using the past to say “see, these other times such and such didn’t occur…” is fallacious thinking. You’re not the intellectual you seem to think you are if you couldn’t spot such an obvious fallacy in your logic tbh.

I think it's more that I adapt to change quite easily and do it all the time, so the changes this will add over the years will be nothing spectacularly different for me.

I'll use it as another tool to make myself more useful to clients.

In that case we need to start WCF pronto (world comedians fund). Someone is going to profit off of their endangered-ness and it may as well be us. We can take 18% of donations for our salaries and fees just like WWF.

I think I'm waiting for an ai to be able to ask a novel question that makes complete sense to ask, but that it doesn't have an answer to. Or find a question it has that it can't find the answer to on a search engine. A truly unique yet logical question would be hard to come by if it's regurgitating information.

Prompt:

>Write a Zen koan about meerkats holding their cards close to their vest, in words that child could understand, based on characters from Winnie the Pooh, concluding with a rhyming couplet that summarizes the key lesson of the koan.

Result:

>Once upon a time, in the Hundred Acre Wood, Pooh and Piglet were playing cards with some meerkats. The meerkats were very good at keeping their cards close to their vest, so Pooh and Piglet couldn't figure out what they had.
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>The meerkats told them, "Just like how we keep our cards safe, you should always keep your thoughts and feelings safe too. Don't show them to just anyone, choose who you share them with wisely."
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>Pooh and Piglet thought about this and realized the meerkats were right. They learned that it's important to be careful about what you share and with whom you share it.
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>"Wise meerkats play their cards close,
And teach us all to guard our thoughts."