90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0

Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by quonn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:55AM (#35628904)

I find these stories strange. If it would be like that, wouldn‘t you learn from an expert friend just as fast? My experience is that for anything worth learning it takes a long time of thinking about it from various angles.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by mdrzn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:01AM (#35628992)

Is there an endless amount of "expert friend" available somewhere that I don't know about? How can I learn something none of my friends know about?

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by ThalesX on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:03PM (#35631292)

A book?

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by layer8 on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:14PM (#35631414)

You can’t ask a book for clarification, or to fill the gaps it leaves.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by ThalesX on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:21PM (#35631503)

I agree, but it does give you access to field experts. Presumably a good book covers the learning approach in whichever way they consider it best, from the position of a field expert. It's also vetted information by other field experts. At the moment, ChatGPT's answers are between ChatGPT and the asker. It can be a total hallucination or useful information. By the way, my point is just that access to experts is not that hard if you consider their books as access.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by ericmcer on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:32AM (#35629455)

You have expert friends who will spend an hour tutoring you on demand? Are you a celebrity or something?

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by dougmwne on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:20AM (#35629270)

While you are seeking out your expert friends and taking a long time, I’ll be on to the next 10 things I can learn from the AI.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by quonn on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:36AM (#35629514)

I‘m talking to them while I‘m having a drink on the beach. How about that?

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by renewiltord on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @12:19PM (#35630043)

I mean, if you have an expert friend on any arbitrary topic that you meet at the beach with a drink in the moment, then more power to you!

Perhaps try using ChatGPT to identify whether others can do this and for some ideas for why they may not be able to.

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Re:90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 by jimbokun on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @11:14AM (#35629175)

Now ChatGPT is everyone's "expert friend".

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