Re:Raising Children on the Eve of AI
by Aurornis on Saturday February 17, 2024 @08:40AM
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> Listening to the interviewee, I began to feel sick to my stomach at the glib description of what amounts to ripping away peoples' livelihoods with plasticized fingers.
I don’t think people realize just how far we have to go before a literal robot can replace a human for even common trade tasks.
ChatGPT can generate convincing text and images, but that doesn’t mean the next step is robots doing your construction jobs or plumbing.
> How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.
The melodramatic Sam Altman takes are getting out of control. What does “How pretty his offices” even mean?
Re:Raising Children on the Eve of AI
by antod on Saturday February 17, 2024 @02:05PM
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I'm not worried about robots taking away trades (yet). There's a whole phase before that where the service industries shrink so much that the trades are both scrambling for customers and competing with a flood of people retraining into the trades.
I don’t think people realize just how far we have to go before a literal robot can replace a human for even common trade tasks.
ChatGPT can generate convincing text and images, but that doesn’t mean the next step is robots doing your construction jobs or plumbing.
> How easy it must be for Sam Altman to drag the world kicking and screaming into the future. How pretty his offices.
The melodramatic Sam Altman takes are getting out of control. What does “How pretty his offices” even mean?