sharkinwolvesclothin

sharkinwolvesclothin t1_jdh1nec wrote

>I hope this can be addressed, as it will be able to run on smaller computers.

These issues are not specific to this chatbot/application. It's just that Stanford people have different incentives to for-profit companies. But yeah, hopefully they can be addressed, as most use cases people have would require the generating models not to have these behaviors.

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sharkinwolvesclothin t1_j5upsu2 wrote

I need to fix the breaks on my bike. What assumptions I'm searching for?

> The greatest cognitive skill in a post-ChatGPT world is going to be: Asking the right questions. And then, Knowing where to ask them.

Yeah it smart to know you chatgpt and this crop of generative models are not good for searching information - they might make shit up about the breaks that will kill me in traffic. I wouldn't knowing to Google the greatest cognitive skill though.

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sharkinwolvesclothin t1_iss4h4v wrote

Agree on both points, I wasn't quite clear. I was trying to argue that if we do get singularity-type AGI, a machine capable of replicating human thought and communication, we will build an endless amount of them, and everything about society will change. You are right, it's not necessarily dystopic or utopic, but it will be different enough that trying to choose a future-proof job is close to useless.

And if we don't get that, and we "just" get amazing tools, I would assume jobs will adapt. Actually, if some fields get more AI tools than others, those fields might grow in the number of people working in them, just in new AI-adjacent jobs we don't recognize yet.

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sharkinwolvesclothin t1_isptt3c wrote

You're not crazy, but you do both overestimate and underestimate the speed of change and type of change at the same time.

Sure, if there's a true singularity / general intelligence machine appears that can do anything, we'll pretty much have manna from heaven, society will be rethought, who knows how. You can argue for both dystopian and utopian scenarios. But thinking about which jobs are safe is kinda irrelevant, it'll change everything.

If it's just simple advances, it'll be more like job markets have dealt with technological advances before. For programmers, they will be checking regulatory compliance or fine-tuning something or whatever, or just dealing with legacy stuff (maybe the chatbot eventually can refactor the Fortran code base from the 70s). I'm not sure if artists are exactly thriving money-wise now either, but there would probably be demand for social/performative in person stuff, not all mediums are happening at the same speed (sure you can make a great dall-e photo that looks like a photo of an oil painting, but an actual oil painting will not follow quite immediately, and some people like physical art), they are well positioned to become prompt artists for digital art.. Or a million other options, it's not like I know exactly what will happen in different industries, just like people did not know how things were going to evolve in previous technical revolutions.

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