Funny how people blame AI. "I use AI to write all my stuff," is just a fancy way of saying, "I'm willingly forcing myself to become obsolete."
"Look how easy my life is now!" A few moments (months, years) later... "Life sure is hard without a job."
Can't blame AI. Blame the people.
Yeah, even if it doesn't go full skynet, it seems like people are gonna go full retard thanks to it. I know I would if this was available 30 years ago.
Every portrait painter wanted to kick the living shit out of every photographer they saw then shove their cameras up their asses.
All those people riding along yelling, "Get a horse, asshole!" To the people driving cars.
So many examples of sudden disruptive change in history. Countless. What they had in common was once the dust settled, more, different, new jobs were created. It's very difficult to predict what will come from this.
Certainly entertainment industry can adapt and still make money. Probably space industries. Robotics. Writing fluff to cram between advertisements on a website, stuff like that is out the door. Menials tasks in the office, gone. And just because it made money, that doesn't mean humanity actually needed it in the first place.
Just gotta go with the flow I guess. Much of what people fear about AI is still science fiction as well, so there's that.
I think the main difference between AI and the older examples is the sheer rate of exponential change. We're only at the beginning right now and already seeing every company pour literally everything they had out of 10 baskets and into a single AI basket. Jobs are already completely dominated by AI in the areas my friends work in.
It's hard to even imagine how much it could be dominating even 6 months from now. That's far too rapid for a society to adjust, compared to the manufacturing of cars and cameras.
I'm certain this is why people like Musk and many other influential heads in the space recommend things so slow down.
As I already stated here, the AI is not to blame, it is the people; the people are in full control of this.
The timing is off. Way off. AI should have come before Covid.
People like Musk and Wozniak are writing for it to slow down (be paused) entirely so they can catch up with their own proprietary models.
They know full well that the likes of ChatGPT being ahead means it will grow exponentially beyond second place as more people use it and level it up faster.
If the billionaires want in on it, the only way they can get ahead is by forcing their competitors to stop through legislation, giving them time to work on the tech behind the scenes
At the end of the day, they're just people trying to catch up, like the rest of us, in a sense, and I'm sure we all have our reasons, while others decide what those reasons are for us from a distance. Ain't life a beautiful thing.
What people are doing wrong is jumping onboard, shifting their focus, while the future they're setting up for themselves becomes dependent on a tool that may or may not prove it itself, could change in an instant, vanish completely, and so on.
"Look at my car! Life's so easy!" said nobody, while stuck in traffic, to sit in line at a pump that may or may not have fuel that is far too expensive.
My searching has become more efficient and enjoyable since Edge released Bing Chat. I'm not visiting sites. They don't get money. Can't stay afloat. Search loses its mind, in a sense. Follow that rope all the way down the line and you'll find someone hanging.
It's a very delicate balancing act seemingly on the surface tipping way too far to one side. People do need time to adjust. Some can only see what's directly in front of them and still be blind to what's ahead.
I wonder if it is the Great Filter playing out