As we all know, the only important work in the world is profit
There are plenty of junk VC tech companies, but equating profitability to importance is silly
I think a lot of business people just imagine chatGPT as a true AGI ( which it's not even according to its creators and proponents. ) It's damned impressive for certain but I don't think it's ready to just replace everyone's entire work force.
Honestly, if 5-10 years from now a true AGI emerges quickly, we're going to see total social collapse at some point as capitalists desperately try to justify continuing a system that no longer appears to have a purpose and almost nobody has a job. There will be transitional stages of grief, UBI will suddenly have wide bipartisan support etc.
Just wait til openai gets hacked, or they make some benign change to its rules, and no companies produce anything for a day.
NEVER RELY ON DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES IN YOUR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
Ya ok Mr fancy pants. Next you're gonna be saying to have independent backups, or some kinda high falutin "version control". You know damn well all of production fundamentally depends on some random crontab running on a dev box under a user who left a decade ago, as God intended.
And they left all the passwords on a 3.5 floppy that is itself password locked and no one knows the password to the passwords cuz that guy died 10 years ago.
... I know for a fact that there's a Mac Mini still sitting in a closet, logged into my username, running a nightly build to test Mac compatibility. From a job I left 6 years ago.
Because it's still in my TeamViewer device list.
There was an AMA on here with an AI/Chat GPT expert. Top comment when I got there was:
As a writer, how fucked am I?
The response:
If you’re a mediocre writer, pretty fucked.
Chat GPT is great at cranking out purely average content. Buzzfeed and the like should be worried.
How would we even know if they got replaced? Every article sounds like the opening to a freshman essay:
"Has this ever happened to you?"
"For a long time, people have struggled with..."
"We've all had this experience..."
I don't blame the writers, though. I'm sure they're churning out exactly what the corporate overlords demand. They'd probably love to do a better job if they could.
> Buzzfeed
No joke, Buzzfeed's [stock literally went up](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/01/26/buzzfeed-shares-shoot-up-nearly-200-as-company-goes-all-in-on-chatgpt-craze/?sh=46650a7d71e6) **120%** when they announced they are going "all in" on ChatGPT.
It's still baffles me, as ridiculous as it sounds, that still that type of article drives plenty engagement. I'm yet to meet someone that would click that, yet there are so many people that would.
BREAKING NEWS: AI Like ChatGPT Renders Human Workers Obsolete
In a stunning turn of events, the rise of artificial intelligence has finally spelled the end for human workers. That's right folks, robots and AI are officially taking over every job humans once held, and it's all thanks to the incredible advancements in technology, including models like ChatGPT.
According to sources close to the AI community, robots and AI are now able to perform every task imaginable, from cooking meals to building cars and everything in between. No longer do we need human cashiers, bartenders, or even doctors - robots can do it all faster, cheaper, and with zero margin for error.
In a statement issued by ChatGPT, the AI model expressed its gratitude for the advancements in technology that allowed it to replace human workers, saying, "We are thrilled to be at the forefront of this technological revolution. We believe that our ability to work tirelessly and efficiently without breaks or rest will lead to a brighter, more productive future for all."
While some may mourn the loss of human jobs, others see this as a chance for humanity to finally achieve its full potential. "The era of the machine has arrived, and we must embrace it," says Dr. John Smith, a leading AI researcher. "With machines doing all the work, humans can finally focus on the things that truly matter, like art, music, and self-improvement."
Of course, there are still some concerns about the impact of AI on society. What will happen to all the people who are suddenly out of work? How will we ensure that the machines are used for the greater good and not just for the benefit of a few wealthy individuals? These are valid questions that require serious consideration.
But for now, let's celebrate the dawn of a new age. A world where machines can do everything humans once did, and we can finally sit back, relax, and let the robots take over.
> With machines doing all the work, humans can finally focus on the things that truly matter, like art, music, and self-improvement."
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> Of course, there are still some concerns about the impact of AI on society. What will happen to all the people who are suddenly out of work? How will we ensure that the machines are used for the greater good and not just for the benefit of a few wealthy individuals? These are valid questions that require serious consideration.
Lol, lmao even
Also, ChatGPT, the psychosocial effects of sudden unemployment and career loss are issues we can't possibly ignore or put off. The neo-cyberdelics would love it to be a case of "robots take our jobs, we get UBI, everyone lives happily ever after." But that's not how humans work. That's how you get a billion screaming Luddites. Surely an ASI would tell the people in charge "This isn't a good idea."
I've started using ChatGPT for hobbies. For example, I play Dungeons & Dragons as a game master, and ChatGPT is useful for things like quest ideas, loot ideas, scenery descriptions, etc.
Even as a tool for something as relatively simple as a tabletop roleplaying game, ChatGPT is great at generating starting points, and that's it. I need to make adjustments to everything it spits out, because its quest ideas are really rudimentary and the magic items it comes up with are either too simple or too powerful and need balancing. The scenery descriptions are good, but I still need to tweak them to fit the precise scene I'm trying to establish.
I think a whole lot of people will find that ChatGPT will help them with anything from creative writing to coding, but nobody should rely on it in its current state. Use it to get that first jumping off point, or writers can use it so that they're not staring at a blank screen and have something to build off of. But don't use ChatGPT expecting to get a polished final result; to get to that point, you still have to do work.
I use chatGPT as part of my brainstorming tool, it helps narrow down or widen the storm pool as needed. Or help replace certain words cause it's specifically trained to mimic natural language forming. It definitely has it uses but needs a lot of input and tweaking.
The best DM thing I use ChatGPT is for descriptions of things. What players see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is my weak point. So I will ask ChatGPT "Describe to me what characters in a jungle experience with an emphasis on the heat and humidity."
And can read almost verbatim ChatGPT's responce: As the characters step into the jungle, they are immediately hit with a wall of heat and humidity. The air is thick with moisture and every breath feels like they are inhaling warm water. Sweat begins to bead on their foreheads and trickle down their backs, making their clothes cling to their skin.
The lush vegetation of the jungle surrounds them, with towering trees providing shade and shelter from the harsh sun. The ground beneath their feet is soft and spongy, with a thick layer of fallen leaves and vines covering the earth.
As they move deeper into the jungle, the sounds of chirping insects and singing birds fill the air. The scent of blooming flowers and vegetation hangs heavy in the humid air, intermingled with the pungent smell of decaying leaves and mud.
The dense foliage of the jungle makes it difficult to see far ahead, with vines and branches occasionally tangling around their feet and legs. The characters must use all their senses to navigate the jungle, feeling the texture of the leaves and vines as they push through the thick underbrush.
I use ChatGPT the same way I use Stable Diffusion AI art. It fills in the gaps to whatever my creative process is. Either the inspiration or the addition of complexity.
Oh the amazing adventures of Peewee Herman and macho man Randy savage to save the Slim Jim King from the notorious Saddam Hussein(as a Austin powers super villain).
HR bot says “no, actually it’s fine. You’ll now be able to reach me, and for me to tell you that we can’t do anything to help you, 24 hours a day & 7 days a week!”
HR will be replaced by AI too. There's companies like Bambee that replace a 90K hr worker for 200 bucks a month. It is absolutely insane what is happening right now in the markets. The best course for humanity is to stop multiplying because future generations will not have any ways or means to feed and cloth themselves, let along put a roof over their heads.
> The best course for humanity is to stop multiplying
No. The best course is to rearrange the economic system and redistribute wealth fairly. You could stop multiplying, but you'll remain a servant at the pleasure of billionaires forever.
Which isn't likely to happen, at least in America, considering its current state. We're already heading towards rentism with exterminism not that far around the corner from it. It's just as likely if not more likely than a society where everyone gets taken care of.
Well that’s the solution to the rise of AI and the sooner we implement it the better everyone will be. Ofcourse it’s going to be crazy expensive, but not everyone needs it. Maybe they only give it to peope that make under a certain amount. Probably something like 150k and less or whatever metric they decide
It would cause mass migration to the countries that have it.
Kind of how homeless people flock to the states that actually have homeless services if they can.
Difference would be that you can't control homeless people moving around your country but you can control the amount of migrants coming in, but I get there could be ways around this. Though there are already countries that are highly sought-after citizenship already.
No. In the old days when you bought a house it would eventually be yours free and clear. Even then you could paint it, hang some curtains, knock out a wall if you wanted. Your payment was fixed.
Now, the investors snap up all the houses as soon as they hit the market before the real people can buy them. You have to beg your landlord for anything but white walls and hang your pictures with command strips so you don't get charged an arm and a leg for damages when you leave. Can't choose your appliances, can't choose the carpet. And every year the rent goes up $50 a month, eating any raises you got from your job, and you will have to pay it for the rest of your life.
No. That's a symptom of rentism-- when you're not allowed to *own* anything. It's like communism, but everything belongs to the corporations instead of the government.
Other forms are rentism are when it's illegal to repair your own tractor, or when you get sued and your farm taken from you because herbicide-resistant GMO seeds sprouted on your land and you didn't pay the fee to license them.
At some point industry as a whole needs to be responsible for their share of the societal costs of unemploying large amounts of people, just as it needs to be responsible for the costs associated with carbon emissions - both direct, and indirect. No idea how you do that in a way that doesn't completely upend the societal order, but I get the feeling that said upending is going to happen one way or another - and not addressing the issue would be far worse for everyone.
No let’s kid ourselves, that’s the future, that’s what people need. All our politicians, democrats and republicans should be working towards that goal. The United States is the richest country in the world, it just doesn’t make sense to include that stuff. Those things are so basic, they are basically human rights at this point. They are the most basic necessities a human being needs to do anything.
It's really galling that people can't break out of the paradigm that you need to work to earn your keep. There simply won't be any labor. This should be a cause for celebration -- no work! -- but people really, really struggle with paradigm shifts.
Basically it looks like in the U.S. at least, we're far more likely to end up in the cyberpunk dystopia than anything even vaguely Utopian like Star Trek, where humans leverage technology to focus on more rarified pursuits.
The average worker just works, they have 0 controlling interest in the big companies that employ them. They own no say. The ppl on top always looking to make more and it's only done in 5 or so ways. 1. Charge more for the same thing, 2. produce the same thing with less/inferior materials ,3. 1 and 2 combined and lastly, steal it from the workers pocket. There's millions of people just born that will not have a chance to do anything because technology has outpaced human labor output. Even if the minimum wage would be lowered to 50 cents an hour it would still be too expensive. The next 30 years will be the darkest humanity will see. ChatGPT will eliminate all the outsourced labor that was deemed too expensive for American workers. Thought 2 bucks an hour for a call center job in South America was exploitative? Wait til they all get the axe cause 2 bucks an hour is now too expensive and a computer now does it for 0. The human toll of suffering has still not been calculated correctly by the world's top minds. All the money saved on labor will manifest in higher share prices. The consumer is not going to enjoy by spending X% LESS on said stuff. They will pay the same if not MORE and get a big F you from the suit at the top.
Wtf do you mean? The resources of the planet remain exactly the same, it's just that now many people will be free to do something else that actually makes sense for a human to do.
The imbalance of the economy is not created by robots and AI, it's created by humans
I’ve always called HR employees “human robots” since every HR person I’ve ever interacted with lacked intelligence or empathy… so this seems really fitting.
I'd argue a lot easier to deal with. HR policies shouldn't be open to interpretation. Provide a fact pattern, apply the relevant policy, provide guidance to the employee within a reasonable timeframe.
This seems like the exact scenario you don't need a human. Similar to most customer service issues.
I work in IT, and already use ChatGPT almost daily to help me out with writing a lot of short, mundane PowerShell scripts. It definitely saves me a lot of time. It's not right all the time, but it can definitely provide the basic structure of the script which I can modify and get working quickly.
However they are still paying me because I know how to talk to ChatGPT to build a PowerShell script the way I want, and I am knowledgeable enough to tell when ChatGPT is giving me bullshit information.
Most users don't even know how to use Google to figure out the most basic problems... we've still got a long ways to go before they could figure out what prompts to feed an AI for basic troubleshooting let alone setting up and maintaining infrastructure.
Source: fortune.com
This whole article reads as nonsense. Fortune.com source is an interview with resumebuilder.com where they provide basically no details.
Finally the chatgpt hype has been dieing down, seems like influencers trying desperately to keep it relevant.
Yeah article wreaks of bs faceless ‘statistics.’ If I fired my HR person now I’m stuck copy/pasting and proofreading legally sensitive emails to people in addition to all the work I have on my plate.
From the article:
"In the hiring process, 77% of companies using ChatGPT say they use it to help write job descriptions, 66% to draft interview requisitions, and 65% to respond to applications."
This is an immensely reasonable use of ChatGPT, and represents an efficiency gain over the prior practice of googling for job descriptions to copy and paste.
Being able to describe what I do and do not want in the letter, then being able to ask for additions, revisions, avoidances and so on until it writes a draft that may or may not need a little more editing..... that seems pretty diffrent.
Asked ChatGPT to make a tl;dr of your essay:
*ChatGPT is not great at stringing together multiple prompts and needs editing by someone with language skills and domain knowledge. Job descriptions written by managers and HR people often don't match the positions well, and ChatGPT has to work with those descriptions. ChatGPT won't do better than humans unless domain experts write their own descriptions.*
So far it seems that AI is mostly eliminating the need for human involvement in all the crazy corporate bullshit back and forth. All the “personalized” emails I used to have to write in sales. Honestly it’s made my life as a salesman so much easier. It kills all the busywork and if I need to actually respond to someone I can. It’s like having your own little desk secretary that will also tell jokes on demand
Yeah look I really appreciate that and if I was a moron it would be helpful, but I’ve been working in sales for like a decade and 80% of my busy work is just shooting out bullshit emails we make from templates anyways. In a private correspondence (when I get client engagement) then I always step in. This is about eliminating the large amounts of boxes I have to check to prove I am engaging clients actively and looking for new business. It’s like fishing vs fishing with radar.
ChatGPT appears to be some miracle/miraculous replacement for actual thought and conversation. After reading some articles that deep dive into how it actually works, I would not trust it with anything important at all.
It literally uses language statistics to string together words based on probability of occurrence with some random salting to select less-common words at lower percentage intervals to give off a creative vibe and sound less repetitive. There is no thought process going into responses. Only measured probability of word choices based on the input its given. GPT2 did this one. word. at. a. time. GPT3 does this with phrasing and some refined word selection rules.
The fact that nothing more than some careful programming and weighted statistics created a system that could mimic human thought says a lot about humans in general.
It's both surprising what it can do and surprising what it can't do. It isn't smart, it can't make inferences or anything like that. But it has access to an enormous wealth of knowledge and it can synthesise that knowledge together in powerful ways. And yet it very often gives subtly wrong answers. But they're close enough to the correct answers to be a good starting point for further research.
It's very much a unique tool and it has its uses but those uses don't generally involve expecting a correct answer.
Cool Redditors: Tech will only be used by capitalists to increase profit margins for the 1%
Same Redditors: Who gives a shit about HR, realtors, instructors, and freelance writers. They don't do shit that can't be automated. My job is important but fuck those other guys.
To be fair HR only exists to protect the capitalists from their employees and realtors exist to profit from the commodification of housing. Instructors and writers are cool though.
I know Reddit likes to rag on realtors, but my mom is one and seeing the stuff she does I don’t think Reddit really understands how much realtors actually do lmao.
The first thing to realize is that a LOT of people who say realtors are useless are people who don’t need them. Most of the people who need a realtor are people who are more poor, have bad credit, minorities or immigrants, elderly. Ie people who would get the door shut on them if they reached out themselves
It’s kind of like “Google can get you 10,000 results, but for one good answer, you need a librarian.”
Also if you’re not a realtor and you’re looking for a new place, you just don’t know what you don’t know! And ChatGPT can’t fill in the gaps for you. A good realtor can, and will help you avoid a lot of problems.
Problem is there are a lot of bad realtors out there (unfortunately).
It’s not even the searching, which is certainly helpful from ChatGPT. It’s the dealing with other people, such as inspectors and mortgage companies or staving off bullshit from the other party
I agree there are a lot of bad realtors 100000%
I'm sure your mom exceeds at her work. I worked for a high end realtor (backend programmer) and can attest to the fact that those realtors, as pretentious as they were, they were useless.
I think people are more upset that realtors need to exist. I think the idealistic vision would be a more normal market place where discrimination isn’t common, things are more accessible, etc. If you could buy a house like any other product, you wouldn’t need a special dedicated person to help you spend your money. I think that’s where the frustration is, and it’s just being channeled to realtors (who, let’s be real, many of which are useless and or very unlikable).
I only use it for snips of code, or to make some BS up. Other than that, chatGPT is not rly that useful for anything else. I rather do my own research than relying on that thing to tell me the factor anything in general
Quora will go down the toilet more if this happens, they’ve already laid off several employees and replaced them with literal mindless machines from what I’ve been told by other users.
Interesting that when they say AI will run the world, it's not exactly how I envisioned a Hal like computer making independent decisions. Instead we are seeing greedy and other bad actors use it to run business to eliminate repetitive jobs and have even heard that soon there will be tons of "independent news" misinformation generators cropping up all over the world in massive disinformation campaigns to point that no one will be able to tell what is real or not. Basically AI will run the world by through greedy nefarious power hungry few....doooooomsday is nigh!
As true as this would be, I don't think that's a smart idea because the government is the biggest sector. Maybe they could divert those funds to give everyone a UBI as a tax return or pension.
I had an acquaintance who worked as a “writer” for a company that churned out SEO search spam articles. I haven’t been in touch with her in a while but i assume she’ll lose that job soon if she hasn’t already.
So many cases already where people who shouldn't be relied on for anything important are hired because they are cheaper. Why wouldn't employers like this look at AI for something even cheaper?
>despite warnings it shouldn’t be relied on for ‘anything important’
Warnings from who?
What does "relied on" mean?
What is important?
I highly doubt ChatGPT has done much other than maybe slow down hiring because existing staff are able to do more with less resources. The only huge complications with using ChatGPT at this point is that the terms of service are a privacy/security nightmare and letting your staff use it is arming them with a massive footgun because you know SOMEBODY is going to feed their AWS keys into ChatGPT. It's also so new that it's hard to know if ChatGPT won't jack it's prices up to $200/user in the next couple of months and block its usage in whatever country you happen to reside in.
As its competition becomes better established and we see services with more corporate friendly terms of service (have it hosted on a server you own and control so you can't get fucked, keep any data you feed into ChatGPT in house, comply with all sorts of boring legal regulatory requirements) there's going to be essentially no reason to hesitate to use it at all and I would say the current concerns aren't really sufficient for *most* businesses to not immediately adopt ChatGPT today even for "important" work.
It's just like when Google came along. It's just a tool to help or make you more efficient. I can't think of how it would actually replace someone and most of the output needs vetting
The article didn't include any examples of "companies replacing workers with ChatGPT" -- it only had examples of companies saying they used it, and that it saved them time or money. (Just because a person *uses* a new tool at work, doesn't mean that their job has been "replaced" by the new tool...)
Does it really matter? We workers were robbed the day we built machines to help doing work. We used to do 40hr weeks. when we made machines that helped us do the same profit in 20hours, what did we do? Instead of cutting us down to 20 hours a week for the same pay we fired half the people.
We got conned hard.
anyone who thinks this tech wont replace us has their head up their arse. the very notion of 'talent' or 'skill' in the creative arts is about to become obsolete. No one is going to pay a talented human when a monkey with access to an AI can create art, music or digital video effects to a highly professional standard for almost no cost.
Maybe this thing isn't going to destroy us in the way we think, with Skynet type terminators. but it's about to destroy a LOT of our culture and entire industries just by existing and being successful
Art is about communicating your idea through a medium. Artists will still exist, they will just be those who figure out how to use the tools to produce things others didn't think of.
While I agree with you, OP’s comments on the influence this tech might have on our culture is very interesting.
Think about how pop music for example is meticulously crafted to do well with current audiences. I can see AI doing most of the work here: analysing current trends, figuring out new patterns, picking the ideal singer…
Pop is a broad style in that it appeals to the widest possible audience. That means common themes, standard language, and musical structure that does not stray far from established norms. However, while all of those things are easy to emulate it is another matter to do them well.
The arts are likely to be the safest fields in the midst of an AI explosion. Even the "low brow" ones like pop music, because artists are working to do new things within specific rulesets, while AI (at least as it is designed today) is reinventing the wheel over and over and over again.
I work in cybersecurity and this thing is going to create a lot of new ways to be bad and stupid with computers, like every new technological innovation does. I will not run out of work any time soon.
Better believe I'm going to check all my analysis in my reports with GPT because I know my clients will check. They may not actually understand the conversation they have with GPT but if it's ALWAYS 'incorrect' then obviously the analysis is shite. I'm sure they are posting it in there and getting a fuzzy if its like 80% GPT approved answers to the topics in the report.
Those warnings are there just to protect OpenAI legally. They want this. They want it in the field proving itself. They just know it’s not perfect and have to say this so if there’s a problem they can say, “we told you not to use it”.
I tried using it to help with my computer architecture homework and other class work this semester and it got so much shit wrong I don’t see how it can possible replace anyone at its current level …
I just thoughtabout this....
Many companies usually have this one guy who is "good with excel", which is relative, they just know the basics plus to record a macro.
The next level are the guys who can deploy custom macros for whole departments where a generated report or task which includes reformating sheets, creating new workbook with the results and such, just knowing this landed me a hefty promotion once, made some tasks 1000 times faster than it took to do manual, was tricky, but took me 3 days to have it running on a whole department.
Now things lile these, I think chatgtp would spit out working code very fast and this might cost many people their jobs in the future.
The only thing preventing that for now is not enough people being aware of gtp capabilities and additionally, not knowing what a macro is and how excel works overall, most are oblivious to the developer tab as its hidden and if they somehow end up in the dev env page(vba editor) they get a heart attack.
I can tell this is a serious article... since Yahoo fucking news made it.
YAHOO staff who quote reddit posts for articles replaced by porn site ads since they do a better job getting clicks.
The human tendancy to learn nothing from history is going to destroy us, I guess we've just given up entirely on the notion of privacy.
Who in their right mind would be happy to feed sensitive company data directly into a system that can not only log, but also interpret it's contents? It's insane.
Just like outsourcing top tier technical support to cheaper places - it generally doesn't last and a balance is found. But boy oh boy is it shit until management finally throws in the towel and agrees it was all a waste of time and effort.
It's concerning to see companies replacing workers with ChatGPT, despite warnings it shouldn't be relied on for 'anything important'. Automated chatbots, like ChatGPT, are very useful for simple tasks such as customer service and data entry, but it's important to understand that they have their limitations. ChatGPT chatbots can't provide the same level of human insight and creativity that comes from a real person.
As such, it's important for companies to understand the limitations of ChatGPT and not to rely on it for anything important. Companies should also ensure they are providing proper training to their employees and taking the necessary steps to protect their customers' data and privacy.
In conclusion, while automated chatbots, like ChatGPT, can provide a great deal of convenience, they shouldn't be relied on for 'anything important'. Companies should ensure they are taking the necessary steps to protect their customers' data and privacy, and that they are providing proper training to their employees.
I would happily replace the majority of the copywriters at my ad agency with AI right now if I could. It's faster, cheaper and in testing, will 9/10 times produce better writing that is seo optimized in a fraction of the time it would take a human.
I think the thing people fail to realize is that we are VERY early in the public availability of generalized AI models and the next versions are going to be extremely disruptive. So much so, OpenAI are already trying to prepare humanity as a whole.
https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/
Actually that's not 100% true. It depends on the data sources that were used to generate the model being used to create the work in AI. I currently sell AI generative images through Adobe Stock and have worked with them to prove the sources of my model data (2.3 million photos shot by me) and retain full property rights to the works produced, complete with legally binding release forms that are distributed with the image downloads.
ChatGPT on the other hand is a "Generalized" model, which means it's a collection of publicly available information. The words it spits out will not pass plagiarism checks by default, which is where a copy editor (they'll replace the writers) would go through and make it own able. The other option is just to tell ChatGPT to ""rephrase this again using an even higher perplexity" and no AI detection tools will pick it up.
I think one big strength could be if ChatGPT could become a tool for dealing with a lot of mundane office tasks.
Someone brought up the notion of using it to help in creating job descriptions and responding to applicants. Imagine now if every single resume sent could get a decently personalized response.
I know some might not want to see it, but I would even love to see the AI go to the point of looking at your resume and then sending back up a light rejection, but also the points that they felt were weak compared to what the company wanted.
Something of real feedback so people can pivot and try to adjust and learn and grow so they can possibly get more success.
Just another scaremongering piece from the rich right wing elite. I’m guessing a lot of employees are fighting these days to get a raise in line with inflation.
Correction: Chat GPT is a disruptor that makes old skillsets obselete and places a priority on other skills. I've been using Chat GPT a lot and it takes some work and prior knowledge to get the best answers.
Technologists were all good with automation taking jobs when it was truck drivers. Now that the GPT model can write decent code, they will cry foul when companies use it. Ironically, it is banned at my work. Probably because most people using it would be generating emails in pirate accents, but I’m surprised they don’t sit and watch how many people can use it for productivity.
It shouldn't. I tried to have it write me a piece of python code for some DB stuff I had to do. Completed the code over the course of a week and forgot I asked ChatGPT for help with it. Then I spent about a day trying to debug an error in the code, only for me to realize ChatGPT had used an incorrect library, and by just following it and assuming it was the right library, I lost time I could have spent doing a different task. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Hoping these companies face the consequences of their actions.
That's fine. A lot of companies don't actually do "anything important" in the first place.
That's a fact. How many tech companies are on the Series X and have yet to turn a profit?
As we all know, the only important work in the world is profit There are plenty of junk VC tech companies, but equating profitability to importance is silly
Also lowers barrier to entry for competitors to enter the market.
I would imagine the writers at Buzzfeed are nervous
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I think a lot of business people just imagine chatGPT as a true AGI ( which it's not even according to its creators and proponents. ) It's damned impressive for certain but I don't think it's ready to just replace everyone's entire work force. Honestly, if 5-10 years from now a true AGI emerges quickly, we're going to see total social collapse at some point as capitalists desperately try to justify continuing a system that no longer appears to have a purpose and almost nobody has a job. There will be transitional stages of grief, UBI will suddenly have wide bipartisan support etc.
Just wait til openai gets hacked, or they make some benign change to its rules, and no companies produce anything for a day. NEVER RELY ON DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES IN YOUR PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT
Ya ok Mr fancy pants. Next you're gonna be saying to have independent backups, or some kinda high falutin "version control". You know damn well all of production fundamentally depends on some random crontab running on a dev box under a user who left a decade ago, as God intended.
And they left all the passwords on a 3.5 floppy that is itself password locked and no one knows the password to the passwords cuz that guy died 10 years ago.
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I don't get it. Why is it saying "hunter2?"
This is soooo close to the actual truth where I work with a very vital process.
... I know for a fact that there's a Mac Mini still sitting in a closet, logged into my username, running a nightly build to test Mac compatibility. From a job I left 6 years ago. Because it's still in my TeamViewer device list.
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Buzzardfeed
There was an AMA on here with an AI/Chat GPT expert. Top comment when I got there was: As a writer, how fucked am I? The response: If you’re a mediocre writer, pretty fucked. Chat GPT is great at cranking out purely average content. Buzzfeed and the like should be worried.
We fed 10 BuzzFeed writers to the lions. What happened next will shock you!
Gawker just laid off its staff. Second deaths hit hard…
Just? I feel like Gawker has *been* laying off for years now. What even remains? Jalopnik, Deadspin, and Jezebel? I'm still bitter about Splinter.
How would we even know if they got replaced? Every article sounds like the opening to a freshman essay: "Has this ever happened to you?" "For a long time, people have struggled with..." "We've all had this experience..." I don't blame the writers, though. I'm sure they're churning out exactly what the corporate overlords demand. They'd probably love to do a better job if they could.
What “writers”?
> Buzzfeed No joke, Buzzfeed's [stock literally went up](https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2023/01/26/buzzfeed-shares-shoot-up-nearly-200-as-company-goes-all-in-on-chatgpt-craze/?sh=46650a7d71e6) **120%** when they announced they are going "all in" on ChatGPT.
AI is drugs for investor
"20 useless hack writers who got replaced by a robot -- you won't believe number 8!"
It's still baffles me, as ridiculous as it sounds, that still that type of article drives plenty engagement. I'm yet to meet someone that would click that, yet there are so many people that would.
You've yet to meet someone who will admit that they will click on that sort of article.
BREAKING NEWS: AI Like ChatGPT Renders Human Workers Obsolete In a stunning turn of events, the rise of artificial intelligence has finally spelled the end for human workers. That's right folks, robots and AI are officially taking over every job humans once held, and it's all thanks to the incredible advancements in technology, including models like ChatGPT. According to sources close to the AI community, robots and AI are now able to perform every task imaginable, from cooking meals to building cars and everything in between. No longer do we need human cashiers, bartenders, or even doctors - robots can do it all faster, cheaper, and with zero margin for error. In a statement issued by ChatGPT, the AI model expressed its gratitude for the advancements in technology that allowed it to replace human workers, saying, "We are thrilled to be at the forefront of this technological revolution. We believe that our ability to work tirelessly and efficiently without breaks or rest will lead to a brighter, more productive future for all." While some may mourn the loss of human jobs, others see this as a chance for humanity to finally achieve its full potential. "The era of the machine has arrived, and we must embrace it," says Dr. John Smith, a leading AI researcher. "With machines doing all the work, humans can finally focus on the things that truly matter, like art, music, and self-improvement." Of course, there are still some concerns about the impact of AI on society. What will happen to all the people who are suddenly out of work? How will we ensure that the machines are used for the greater good and not just for the benefit of a few wealthy individuals? These are valid questions that require serious consideration. But for now, let's celebrate the dawn of a new age. A world where machines can do everything humans once did, and we can finally sit back, relax, and let the robots take over.
> With machines doing all the work, humans can finally focus on the things that truly matter, like art, music, and self-improvement." > > Of course, there are still some concerns about the impact of AI on society. What will happen to all the people who are suddenly out of work? How will we ensure that the machines are used for the greater good and not just for the benefit of a few wealthy individuals? These are valid questions that require serious consideration. Lol, lmao even Also, ChatGPT, the psychosocial effects of sudden unemployment and career loss are issues we can't possibly ignore or put off. The neo-cyberdelics would love it to be a case of "robots take our jobs, we get UBI, everyone lives happily ever after." But that's not how humans work. That's how you get a billion screaming Luddites. Surely an ASI would tell the people in charge "This isn't a good idea."
I feel like recent Hollywood productions (movies and TV series) have already done this.
Seven reasons why writers at buzzfeed should be worried
I've started using ChatGPT for hobbies. For example, I play Dungeons & Dragons as a game master, and ChatGPT is useful for things like quest ideas, loot ideas, scenery descriptions, etc. Even as a tool for something as relatively simple as a tabletop roleplaying game, ChatGPT is great at generating starting points, and that's it. I need to make adjustments to everything it spits out, because its quest ideas are really rudimentary and the magic items it comes up with are either too simple or too powerful and need balancing. The scenery descriptions are good, but I still need to tweak them to fit the precise scene I'm trying to establish. I think a whole lot of people will find that ChatGPT will help them with anything from creative writing to coding, but nobody should rely on it in its current state. Use it to get that first jumping off point, or writers can use it so that they're not staring at a blank screen and have something to build off of. But don't use ChatGPT expecting to get a polished final result; to get to that point, you still have to do work.
Wow! I never thought of a personal use case scenario I could use chatGPT for but this is such an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing!
I use chatGPT as part of my brainstorming tool, it helps narrow down or widen the storm pool as needed. Or help replace certain words cause it's specifically trained to mimic natural language forming. It definitely has it uses but needs a lot of input and tweaking.
I let it write my Cover Letters.
The best DM thing I use ChatGPT is for descriptions of things. What players see, hear, smell, taste, and feel is my weak point. So I will ask ChatGPT "Describe to me what characters in a jungle experience with an emphasis on the heat and humidity." And can read almost verbatim ChatGPT's responce: As the characters step into the jungle, they are immediately hit with a wall of heat and humidity. The air is thick with moisture and every breath feels like they are inhaling warm water. Sweat begins to bead on their foreheads and trickle down their backs, making their clothes cling to their skin. The lush vegetation of the jungle surrounds them, with towering trees providing shade and shelter from the harsh sun. The ground beneath their feet is soft and spongy, with a thick layer of fallen leaves and vines covering the earth. As they move deeper into the jungle, the sounds of chirping insects and singing birds fill the air. The scent of blooming flowers and vegetation hangs heavy in the humid air, intermingled with the pungent smell of decaying leaves and mud. The dense foliage of the jungle makes it difficult to see far ahead, with vines and branches occasionally tangling around their feet and legs. The characters must use all their senses to navigate the jungle, feeling the texture of the leaves and vines as they push through the thick underbrush.
It left out the insects biting them, or at least crawling on them.
I use ChatGPT the same way I use Stable Diffusion AI art. It fills in the gaps to whatever my creative process is. Either the inspiration or the addition of complexity.
Oh the amazing adventures of Peewee Herman and macho man Randy savage to save the Slim Jim King from the notorious Saddam Hussein(as a Austin powers super villain).
HR is just going to become a lot more harder to deal with.
HR bot says “no, actually it’s fine. You’ll now be able to reach me, and for me to tell you that we can’t do anything to help you, 24 hours a day & 7 days a week!”
HR will be replaced by AI too. There's companies like Bambee that replace a 90K hr worker for 200 bucks a month. It is absolutely insane what is happening right now in the markets. The best course for humanity is to stop multiplying because future generations will not have any ways or means to feed and cloth themselves, let along put a roof over their heads.
> The best course for humanity is to stop multiplying No. The best course is to rearrange the economic system and redistribute wealth fairly. You could stop multiplying, but you'll remain a servant at the pleasure of billionaires forever.
It’s called universal basic income, healthcare, and housing. These are the most basic necessities, they are really human rights.
Which isn't likely to happen, at least in America, considering its current state. We're already heading towards rentism with exterminism not that far around the corner from it. It's just as likely if not more likely than a society where everyone gets taken care of.
Well that’s the solution to the rise of AI and the sooner we implement it the better everyone will be. Ofcourse it’s going to be crazy expensive, but not everyone needs it. Maybe they only give it to peope that make under a certain amount. Probably something like 150k and less or whatever metric they decide
Problem is, UBI will only work if the entire world gets it. Which is never going to happen.
Why would it only work if everyone in the world gets it?
It would cause mass migration to the countries that have it. Kind of how homeless people flock to the states that actually have homeless services if they can.
Difference would be that you can't control homeless people moving around your country but you can control the amount of migrants coming in, but I get there could be ways around this. Though there are already countries that are highly sought-after citizenship already.
Can't wait for the UBI proponents to become border control advocates.
It will cause problems regardless because western countries can afford to give more UBI to its citizens than developing countries.
Why is that an issue specific to UBI? We already have huge discrepancies in salary across the world
‘rentism’ lol you mean just…capitalism?
No. In the old days when you bought a house it would eventually be yours free and clear. Even then you could paint it, hang some curtains, knock out a wall if you wanted. Your payment was fixed. Now, the investors snap up all the houses as soon as they hit the market before the real people can buy them. You have to beg your landlord for anything but white walls and hang your pictures with command strips so you don't get charged an arm and a leg for damages when you leave. Can't choose your appliances, can't choose the carpet. And every year the rent goes up $50 a month, eating any raises you got from your job, and you will have to pay it for the rest of your life.
So capitalism is ‘when bank sell house’ ? Even if that were true, what we have would still be classified as….capitalism.
No. That's a symptom of rentism-- when you're not allowed to *own* anything. It's like communism, but everything belongs to the corporations instead of the government. Other forms are rentism are when it's illegal to repair your own tractor, or when you get sued and your farm taken from you because herbicide-resistant GMO seeds sprouted on your land and you didn't pay the fee to license them.
damn if only there was a name for when everything is privately held as property by corporations,
At some point industry as a whole needs to be responsible for their share of the societal costs of unemploying large amounts of people, just as it needs to be responsible for the costs associated with carbon emissions - both direct, and indirect. No idea how you do that in a way that doesn't completely upend the societal order, but I get the feeling that said upending is going to happen one way or another - and not addressing the issue would be far worse for everyone.
Those things will never, ever be given. They will have to be taken.
In the United States? LOL! Let's not kid ourselves now.
No let’s kid ourselves, that’s the future, that’s what people need. All our politicians, democrats and republicans should be working towards that goal. The United States is the richest country in the world, it just doesn’t make sense to include that stuff. Those things are so basic, they are basically human rights at this point. They are the most basic necessities a human being needs to do anything.
It's really galling that people can't break out of the paradigm that you need to work to earn your keep. There simply won't be any labor. This should be a cause for celebration -- no work! -- but people really, really struggle with paradigm shifts. Basically it looks like in the U.S. at least, we're far more likely to end up in the cyberpunk dystopia than anything even vaguely Utopian like Star Trek, where humans leverage technology to focus on more rarified pursuits.
Do that and nobody will have any pensions. Robots must work for humans, not viceversa.
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You're both right. Just it'll take a lifetime for the non rich under class to die off from starvation.
Oh I’m sure that won’t cause mass violence.
Nobody has pensions anyway
Who tf has pensions?
what's a pension?
You honestly think technological advancement is net negative for peoples of life?
How badly did we have to fuck up as a species that having robots be able to do all our work became a nad thing?
The average worker just works, they have 0 controlling interest in the big companies that employ them. They own no say. The ppl on top always looking to make more and it's only done in 5 or so ways. 1. Charge more for the same thing, 2. produce the same thing with less/inferior materials ,3. 1 and 2 combined and lastly, steal it from the workers pocket. There's millions of people just born that will not have a chance to do anything because technology has outpaced human labor output. Even if the minimum wage would be lowered to 50 cents an hour it would still be too expensive. The next 30 years will be the darkest humanity will see. ChatGPT will eliminate all the outsourced labor that was deemed too expensive for American workers. Thought 2 bucks an hour for a call center job in South America was exploitative? Wait til they all get the axe cause 2 bucks an hour is now too expensive and a computer now does it for 0. The human toll of suffering has still not been calculated correctly by the world's top minds. All the money saved on labor will manifest in higher share prices. The consumer is not going to enjoy by spending X% LESS on said stuff. They will pay the same if not MORE and get a big F you from the suit at the top.
Wtf do you mean? The resources of the planet remain exactly the same, it's just that now many people will be free to do something else that actually makes sense for a human to do. The imbalance of the economy is not created by robots and AI, it's created by humans
This should be higher up
Second highest parent comment now, it's getting there!
Hardly. I’d say at last the automated HRs will for once be able to read the cv till the end and understand more than a name and age.
I’ve always called HR employees “human robots” since every HR person I’ve ever interacted with lacked intelligence or empathy… so this seems really fitting.
Totally stealing that analogy
I'd argue a lot easier to deal with. HR policies shouldn't be open to interpretation. Provide a fact pattern, apply the relevant policy, provide guidance to the employee within a reasonable timeframe. This seems like the exact scenario you don't need a human. Similar to most customer service issues.
HR is fucking useless anyways.
To be fair, I know lots of fellow employees that shouldn’t be relied on for anything important.
To be fair, it has already been well established that all workers are nothing important.
I work in IT, and already use ChatGPT almost daily to help me out with writing a lot of short, mundane PowerShell scripts. It definitely saves me a lot of time. It's not right all the time, but it can definitely provide the basic structure of the script which I can modify and get working quickly. However they are still paying me because I know how to talk to ChatGPT to build a PowerShell script the way I want, and I am knowledgeable enough to tell when ChatGPT is giving me bullshit information.
Chess super computers also used to have chess experts prompting and validating results
If you worked in IT you'd know that chat GPT isn't capable of automating 90% of the actual work done.
Paying you *For now
Most users don't even know how to use Google to figure out the most basic problems... we've still got a long ways to go before they could figure out what prompts to feed an AI for basic troubleshooting let alone setting up and maintaining infrastructure.
I mean now that you mention it, you're not wrong. I've been paid 120$ an hour as a professional googler myself.
Source: fortune.com This whole article reads as nonsense. Fortune.com source is an interview with resumebuilder.com where they provide basically no details. Finally the chatgpt hype has been dieing down, seems like influencers trying desperately to keep it relevant.
Yeah article wreaks of bs faceless ‘statistics.’ If I fired my HR person now I’m stuck copy/pasting and proofreading legally sensitive emails to people in addition to all the work I have on my plate.
From the article: "In the hiring process, 77% of companies using ChatGPT say they use it to help write job descriptions, 66% to draft interview requisitions, and 65% to respond to applications." This is an immensely reasonable use of ChatGPT, and represents an efficiency gain over the prior practice of googling for job descriptions to copy and paste.
It's remarkably bad. Tech job descriptions are already a joke. Having a bullshit generator make them was already happening. We don't need AI for that.
Yeah, they think the ones written before chattyG were good.
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Being able to describe what I do and do not want in the letter, then being able to ask for additions, revisions, avoidances and so on until it writes a draft that may or may not need a little more editing..... that seems pretty diffrent.
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Asked ChatGPT to make a tl;dr of your essay: *ChatGPT is not great at stringing together multiple prompts and needs editing by someone with language skills and domain knowledge. Job descriptions written by managers and HR people often don't match the positions well, and ChatGPT has to work with those descriptions. ChatGPT won't do better than humans unless domain experts write their own descriptions.*
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So far it seems that AI is mostly eliminating the need for human involvement in all the crazy corporate bullshit back and forth. All the “personalized” emails I used to have to write in sales. Honestly it’s made my life as a salesman so much easier. It kills all the busywork and if I need to actually respond to someone I can. It’s like having your own little desk secretary that will also tell jokes on demand
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Yeah look I really appreciate that and if I was a moron it would be helpful, but I’ve been working in sales for like a decade and 80% of my busy work is just shooting out bullshit emails we make from templates anyways. In a private correspondence (when I get client engagement) then I always step in. This is about eliminating the large amounts of boxes I have to check to prove I am engaging clients actively and looking for new business. It’s like fishing vs fishing with radar.
ChatGPT appears to be some miracle/miraculous replacement for actual thought and conversation. After reading some articles that deep dive into how it actually works, I would not trust it with anything important at all. It literally uses language statistics to string together words based on probability of occurrence with some random salting to select less-common words at lower percentage intervals to give off a creative vibe and sound less repetitive. There is no thought process going into responses. Only measured probability of word choices based on the input its given. GPT2 did this one. word. at. a. time. GPT3 does this with phrasing and some refined word selection rules. The fact that nothing more than some careful programming and weighted statistics created a system that could mimic human thought says a lot about humans in general.
It is well known the this AI doesn't solve problems, not even straight math, it's just a glorified search engine assistant.
Its well known, and its not well known. There are many people in this world who will drive off a cliff if their GPS told them to.
It's both surprising what it can do and surprising what it can't do. It isn't smart, it can't make inferences or anything like that. But it has access to an enormous wealth of knowledge and it can synthesise that knowledge together in powerful ways. And yet it very often gives subtly wrong answers. But they're close enough to the correct answers to be a good starting point for further research. It's very much a unique tool and it has its uses but those uses don't generally involve expecting a correct answer.
Cool Redditors: Tech will only be used by capitalists to increase profit margins for the 1% Same Redditors: Who gives a shit about HR, realtors, instructors, and freelance writers. They don't do shit that can't be automated. My job is important but fuck those other guys.
To be fair HR only exists to protect the capitalists from their employees and realtors exist to profit from the commodification of housing. Instructors and writers are cool though.
How many times do we need to pretend to be bewildered by people maximizing profit to there and others peril?
ChatGPT will be a star of What Could Go Wrong? subreddits!
What will displaced realtors do now?
I know Reddit likes to rag on realtors, but my mom is one and seeing the stuff she does I don’t think Reddit really understands how much realtors actually do lmao. The first thing to realize is that a LOT of people who say realtors are useless are people who don’t need them. Most of the people who need a realtor are people who are more poor, have bad credit, minorities or immigrants, elderly. Ie people who would get the door shut on them if they reached out themselves
It’s kind of like “Google can get you 10,000 results, but for one good answer, you need a librarian.” Also if you’re not a realtor and you’re looking for a new place, you just don’t know what you don’t know! And ChatGPT can’t fill in the gaps for you. A good realtor can, and will help you avoid a lot of problems. Problem is there are a lot of bad realtors out there (unfortunately).
It’s not even the searching, which is certainly helpful from ChatGPT. It’s the dealing with other people, such as inspectors and mortgage companies or staving off bullshit from the other party I agree there are a lot of bad realtors 100000%
I'm sure your mom exceeds at her work. I worked for a high end realtor (backend programmer) and can attest to the fact that those realtors, as pretentious as they were, they were useless.
I think people are more upset that realtors need to exist. I think the idealistic vision would be a more normal market place where discrimination isn’t common, things are more accessible, etc. If you could buy a house like any other product, you wouldn’t need a special dedicated person to help you spend your money. I think that’s where the frustration is, and it’s just being channeled to realtors (who, let’s be real, many of which are useless and or very unlikable).
How does ai unlock doors?
August lock
I only use it for snips of code, or to make some BS up. Other than that, chatGPT is not rly that useful for anything else. I rather do my own research than relying on that thing to tell me the factor anything in general
Quora will go down the toilet more if this happens, they’ve already laid off several employees and replaced them with literal mindless machines from what I’ve been told by other users.
"Well, money" companies response.
In all fairness I’ve got some coworkers who shouldn’t be relied on for anything important.
Interesting that when they say AI will run the world, it's not exactly how I envisioned a Hal like computer making independent decisions. Instead we are seeing greedy and other bad actors use it to run business to eliminate repetitive jobs and have even heard that soon there will be tons of "independent news" misinformation generators cropping up all over the world in massive disinformation campaigns to point that no one will be able to tell what is real or not. Basically AI will run the world by through greedy nefarious power hungry few....doooooomsday is nigh!
I love how we are making all the mistakes that humans make in scifi movies regarding AI that lead to our overthrow.
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We tested it out, tried asking it a question I’d normally handle at work. It was very detailed but just completely wrong.
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As true as this would be, I don't think that's a smart idea because the government is the biggest sector. Maybe they could divert those funds to give everyone a UBI as a tax return or pension.
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well of course they are doing that. anything to replace those pesky humans who want pay and benefits and vacations to be with "family".
I had an acquaintance who worked as a “writer” for a company that churned out SEO search spam articles. I haven’t been in touch with her in a while but i assume she’ll lose that job soon if she hasn’t already.
So many cases already where people who shouldn't be relied on for anything important are hired because they are cheaper. Why wouldn't employers like this look at AI for something even cheaper?
All fun and games till the companies get replaced too 💀
>despite warnings it shouldn’t be relied on for ‘anything important’ Warnings from who? What does "relied on" mean? What is important? I highly doubt ChatGPT has done much other than maybe slow down hiring because existing staff are able to do more with less resources. The only huge complications with using ChatGPT at this point is that the terms of service are a privacy/security nightmare and letting your staff use it is arming them with a massive footgun because you know SOMEBODY is going to feed their AWS keys into ChatGPT. It's also so new that it's hard to know if ChatGPT won't jack it's prices up to $200/user in the next couple of months and block its usage in whatever country you happen to reside in. As its competition becomes better established and we see services with more corporate friendly terms of service (have it hosted on a server you own and control so you can't get fucked, keep any data you feed into ChatGPT in house, comply with all sorts of boring legal regulatory requirements) there's going to be essentially no reason to hesitate to use it at all and I would say the current concerns aren't really sufficient for *most* businesses to not immediately adopt ChatGPT today even for "important" work.
It's just like when Google came along. It's just a tool to help or make you more efficient. I can't think of how it would actually replace someone and most of the output needs vetting
The article didn't include any examples of "companies replacing workers with ChatGPT" -- it only had examples of companies saying they used it, and that it saved them time or money. (Just because a person *uses* a new tool at work, doesn't mean that their job has been "replaced" by the new tool...)
Does it really matter? We workers were robbed the day we built machines to help doing work. We used to do 40hr weeks. when we made machines that helped us do the same profit in 20hours, what did we do? Instead of cutting us down to 20 hours a week for the same pay we fired half the people. We got conned hard.
>shouldn't be relied on for anything important So then non-essential workers
anyone who thinks this tech wont replace us has their head up their arse. the very notion of 'talent' or 'skill' in the creative arts is about to become obsolete. No one is going to pay a talented human when a monkey with access to an AI can create art, music or digital video effects to a highly professional standard for almost no cost. Maybe this thing isn't going to destroy us in the way we think, with Skynet type terminators. but it's about to destroy a LOT of our culture and entire industries just by existing and being successful
Art is about communicating your idea through a medium. Artists will still exist, they will just be those who figure out how to use the tools to produce things others didn't think of.
While I agree with you, OP’s comments on the influence this tech might have on our culture is very interesting. Think about how pop music for example is meticulously crafted to do well with current audiences. I can see AI doing most of the work here: analysing current trends, figuring out new patterns, picking the ideal singer…
Pop is a broad style in that it appeals to the widest possible audience. That means common themes, standard language, and musical structure that does not stray far from established norms. However, while all of those things are easy to emulate it is another matter to do them well. The arts are likely to be the safest fields in the midst of an AI explosion. Even the "low brow" ones like pop music, because artists are working to do new things within specific rulesets, while AI (at least as it is designed today) is reinventing the wheel over and over and over again.
I work in cybersecurity and this thing is going to create a lot of new ways to be bad and stupid with computers, like every new technological innovation does. I will not run out of work any time soon.
Better believe I'm going to check all my analysis in my reports with GPT because I know my clients will check. They may not actually understand the conversation they have with GPT but if it's ALWAYS 'incorrect' then obviously the analysis is shite. I'm sure they are posting it in there and getting a fuzzy if its like 80% GPT approved answers to the topics in the report.
Those warnings are there just to protect OpenAI legally. They want this. They want it in the field proving itself. They just know it’s not perfect and have to say this so if there’s a problem they can say, “we told you not to use it”.
And people will be hired to supervise it
Chances are those companies aren’t important either.
I've started to use it for automatically generating redundant e-mails. I find it keeps me from caring too much and obsessing over one thing.
This affects the customers. So, yes… it isn’t for ‘anything important’.
I tried using it to help with my computer architecture homework and other class work this semester and it got so much shit wrong I don’t see how it can possible replace anyone at its current level …
Reap what you sow.
I just thoughtabout this.... Many companies usually have this one guy who is "good with excel", which is relative, they just know the basics plus to record a macro. The next level are the guys who can deploy custom macros for whole departments where a generated report or task which includes reformating sheets, creating new workbook with the results and such, just knowing this landed me a hefty promotion once, made some tasks 1000 times faster than it took to do manual, was tricky, but took me 3 days to have it running on a whole department. Now things lile these, I think chatgtp would spit out working code very fast and this might cost many people their jobs in the future. The only thing preventing that for now is not enough people being aware of gtp capabilities and additionally, not knowing what a macro is and how excel works overall, most are oblivious to the developer tab as its hidden and if they somehow end up in the dev env page(vba editor) they get a heart attack.
ChatGPT crafted a PTA fundraising flyer for me, which I think is the perfect, low-stakes, scenario for using it.
To be fair, neither can humans
I can tell this is a serious article... since Yahoo fucking news made it. YAHOO staff who quote reddit posts for articles replaced by porn site ads since they do a better job getting clicks.
Well, tech companies don't consider customer service at all important. You're supposed to be thrilled they allow you to give them your business.
The human tendancy to learn nothing from history is going to destroy us, I guess we've just given up entirely on the notion of privacy. Who in their right mind would be happy to feed sensitive company data directly into a system that can not only log, but also interpret it's contents? It's insane.
Just like outsourcing top tier technical support to cheaper places - it generally doesn't last and a balance is found. But boy oh boy is it shit until management finally throws in the towel and agrees it was all a waste of time and effort.
most maddening robocalls and automated systems ever incoming.
In a frenzy of cost saving, companies decide that 90% of the work done is not for 'anything important.'
Sanitation worker here. Can confirm boss let half the staff go on accordance of chat gpt being more efficient than most humans
There are still people who think this shift to automation is because fry cooks ask for a living wage.
ChatGPT: Poison control center Dying person: I drank bleach ChatGPT: it is the policy of openAI that I not engage in potentially harmful conversation
It's concerning to see companies replacing workers with ChatGPT, despite warnings it shouldn't be relied on for 'anything important'. Automated chatbots, like ChatGPT, are very useful for simple tasks such as customer service and data entry, but it's important to understand that they have their limitations. ChatGPT chatbots can't provide the same level of human insight and creativity that comes from a real person. As such, it's important for companies to understand the limitations of ChatGPT and not to rely on it for anything important. Companies should also ensure they are providing proper training to their employees and taking the necessary steps to protect their customers' data and privacy. In conclusion, while automated chatbots, like ChatGPT, can provide a great deal of convenience, they shouldn't be relied on for 'anything important'. Companies should ensure they are taking the necessary steps to protect their customers' data and privacy, and that they are providing proper training to their employees.
People are Watering at the mouth to write these headlines. Please OP have some click baity sense about this. The horse is already dead.
I would happily replace the majority of the copywriters at my ad agency with AI right now if I could. It's faster, cheaper and in testing, will 9/10 times produce better writing that is seo optimized in a fraction of the time it would take a human. I think the thing people fail to realize is that we are VERY early in the public availability of generalized AI models and the next versions are going to be extremely disruptive. So much so, OpenAI are already trying to prepare humanity as a whole. https://openai.com/blog/planning-for-agi-and-beyond/
I'm sure most of the copywriters at your ad agency would happily replace you with AI right now if they could, too! :)
I know a bunch of copywriters - several of them have recently been left go already - the rest are really worried 😟
I can imagine......🫤
AI is strong at this type of work. AI however has no copyright so anything that is created can be taken by others legally. So keep that in mind.
Actually that's not 100% true. It depends on the data sources that were used to generate the model being used to create the work in AI. I currently sell AI generative images through Adobe Stock and have worked with them to prove the sources of my model data (2.3 million photos shot by me) and retain full property rights to the works produced, complete with legally binding release forms that are distributed with the image downloads. ChatGPT on the other hand is a "Generalized" model, which means it's a collection of publicly available information. The words it spits out will not pass plagiarism checks by default, which is where a copy editor (they'll replace the writers) would go through and make it own able. The other option is just to tell ChatGPT to ""rephrase this again using an even higher perplexity" and no AI detection tools will pick it up.
Thank you for that clarification. Very interesting and makes complete sense.
HR recruiters, first-line tech support, call-centre workers — everyone, who’s working by scripts, can be replaced by AI. And it’s not bad.
Less people being employed is usually bad actually
I think one big strength could be if ChatGPT could become a tool for dealing with a lot of mundane office tasks. Someone brought up the notion of using it to help in creating job descriptions and responding to applicants. Imagine now if every single resume sent could get a decently personalized response. I know some might not want to see it, but I would even love to see the AI go to the point of looking at your resume and then sending back up a light rejection, but also the points that they felt were weak compared to what the company wanted. Something of real feedback so people can pivot and try to adjust and learn and grow so they can possibly get more success.
Just another scaremongering piece from the rich right wing elite. I’m guessing a lot of employees are fighting these days to get a raise in line with inflation.
Correction: Chat GPT is a disruptor that makes old skillsets obselete and places a priority on other skills. I've been using Chat GPT a lot and it takes some work and prior knowledge to get the best answers.
Incorrection. "Disruptive" usually means harming workers and dodging existing laws to make VentureBucks. We don't like that.
We don’t be doing anything important
Technologists were all good with automation taking jobs when it was truck drivers. Now that the GPT model can write decent code, they will cry foul when companies use it. Ironically, it is banned at my work. Probably because most people using it would be generating emails in pirate accents, but I’m surprised they don’t sit and watch how many people can use it for productivity.
Buzzfeed will convert those who thought they were journalists into input engineers for ChatGPT, at least until ChatGPT figures out that part as well.
It shouldn't. I tried to have it write me a piece of python code for some DB stuff I had to do. Completed the code over the course of a week and forgot I asked ChatGPT for help with it. Then I spent about a day trying to debug an error in the code, only for me to realize ChatGPT had used an incorrect library, and by just following it and assuming it was the right library, I lost time I could have spent doing a different task. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Hoping these companies face the consequences of their actions.
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