Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?

Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tec... by ChuckNorris89 on Thursday March 16, 2023 @04:47PM (#35188315)

Personal computing didn't automate too many things that only humans could previously do. Personal computer enabled you to move the data haystack from paper medium to digital but you still had to know the right SW incantations and meticulously dig through it to find the needle.

ChatGPT and other ML apps can find you the needle in the data haystack. To look up stuff on the PC you still needed to know the location of your stuff, filesystem info and how to formulate queries. You no longer need to learn to "speak machine language" but finally the machines can now understand human language to do what you tell them to do.

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Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tec... by avmich on Thursday March 16, 2023 @08:09PM (#35190806)

The question was about the case "when these sorts of things happen". This is a generalization which assumes something analogous happened in the past. We're not talking narrowly about something which could "automate too many things that only humans could previously do", which we didn't have before ChatGPT, at least in such a short time. We're talking about similar, but not the same, things and PC revolution seems like a good example.

So it would be good to see the parallels with 1980-s here, if this generalization holds.

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Re:Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tec... by danaris on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:29PM (#35200147)

I was talking specifically about "when this happens in such a way as to 'take down' people", not saying "any time automation happens, workers suffer".

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