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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by p-e-w on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:08AM (#35299641)
The simple, brutal truth is this: The age of human accomplishment is almost over. It could be as early as 10 years from now, or it could take another 10 years after that, but sooner or later, "people doing things" is going to end. There will be no field of expertise where even the best humans can compete with AIs.

Instead of worrying how you can avoid the inevitable and win tomorrow's rat race one more time, I recommend you prepare yourself mentally for this. The vast majority of people will no doubt be in denial long after they have already been made obsolete. Defying mass sentiment and recognizing the truth is perhaps the last great truly human act left for anyone to do.

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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by blacksmith_tb on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:22AM (#35299721)
Hmm, AI may be poised to make software devs, copywriters, and accountants redundant, but it's not likely to make a good salad, play a killer live concert, or set a broken arm. At a certain level I think I'm fine with being made redundant (I don't hate my job, but I wouldn't mind retiring early - unless that was to sleep in a cardboard box). So for me the question is can our society survive AI replacing a lot of lucrative white-collar gigs - maybe?
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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by p-e-w on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:39AM (#35299811)
> but it's not likely to make a good salad, play a killer live concert, or set a broken arm

Why not? I see no reason to assume that AI can't do those things better than any human.

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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by cryptoz on Saturday March 25, 2023 @01:56AM (#35299901)
Pretty sure those 3 examples will be completed by robots this year if they haven’t already.
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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by Unitron on Saturday March 25, 2023 @02:25AM (#35300040)
You don't even need AI to make a good salad, someone can program a robot with pre-made recipes.

And the other examples are also poor. AI today can already compose unique music.

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Re:ChatGPT Will Replace Programmers Within 10 Years by antifa on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:35AM (#35314288)
I don't think it'll be 10 or 20 years. I think it'll be more like 2% of good jobs (or 10%+ in random sectors) will disappear on a yearly basis for the next 50 years.
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