brosirmandude t1_it7am4u wrote on October 21, 2022 at 1:31 PM

Reply to comment by Down_The_Rabbithole in If you believe you can think exponentially, you might be wrong. Transformative AI is here, and it is going to radically change the world before the Singularity, and before AGI. by AdditionalPizza

As one of those digital knowledge workers who's likely going to be automated away in the first wave, I honestly have no idea how to prepare myself or my family for any of this.

I think I might switch to focusing on building my skills in games and entertainment. When the amount of humans needed for digital work drops, the need for them to find joy in other things probably rises.and hobbies like games or TCGs seem likely to stick a bit longer due to social aspects.

But even that is longer term. Short term I really still don't know how to deal if there's mass layoffs and the government takes literal years to rekon with that.

blueSGL t1_it7tzvt wrote on October 21, 2022 at 3:46 PM

I've already seen people generate images for their RPG campaigns using Stable Diffusion, how many rule/campaign books will a LLM need to crunch through before it can spit out endless variations on a theme for your favorite system (or act as a major accelerator for those creating them already)

Edit: actually lets expand on this.

What happens when a sufficiently advanced model gets licensed for fine tune to paying companies and Wizards of the Coast feeds in the entire corpus of data they control and starts using that to create or help create expansions and systems and the former creators shift to editors.

Now do that for every industry that has a text backbone somewhere in it. e.g. movie/tv scripts, books, comics, radio dramas, music video concepts, and so on.

AdditionalPizza OP t1_it7z0r3 wrote on October 21, 2022 at 4:19 PM

I would suggest trying something that is self sufficient, more so than an "employable" skill.

Take it up as a hobby now, and if you truly are in the first wave, you'll maybe have some totally unrelated skill you can use for passive income in a market that isn't entirely dictated by IT.