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Re:Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded... by shortrounddev on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @02:51PM (#35444277)
If I was faced with the prospect of losing my job as a software engineer and instead becoming a prompt "engineer", I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech. At that point, there are no more interesting problems worth spending your time on. Just become a yak farmer or something and leave
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Re:Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded... by kranke155 on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:34PM (#35446139)
This is what I was told as an artist here when Stable Diffusion showed up.

Same reaction, to the incredulity of the HN crowd. “Why would you quit” etc

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Re:Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded... by yunwal on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:13PM (#35446530)
As an artist, are you not interested in other types of art besides photography and digital art?
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Re:Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded... by kranke155 on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:33AM (#35453879)
Writing. I hope that it will be the last thing we automate. As smart as we can make an LLM, can we get it to write original material as good as Ted Chiang? Feels like this would be an AGI-level problem.

What I'm definitely not interested in is telling a computer to make images for me.

Like I said at the time I trained to be a monk transcribing books. I'm not interested in becoming a printing press operator.

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Re:Goldman Sachs Predicts 300M Jobs Will Be Lost or Degraded... by nyokodo on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:03PM (#35446433)
> I would simply opt to drop out of the labor market entirely, or at least out of tech.

This is the problem for automation at the limit. Unless we generate an immensely powerful AI that sustains itself entirely then AI will destroy the economy and therefore itself.

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