5 sats \ 1 reply \ @l0k18 1 May 2023 \ parent \ on: DarthCoin position regarding AI/chatGPT bitcoin
I don't think people will use their brain less because of AI, they just will not use their brain so often to do the exact same thing as someone else did already and encoded into a model.
The lower cost of producing what you will agree is inherently derivative, low information content variations on a theme will get even lower, and the increased supply will lead to a craving for novelty that will put the lions share of market payments for creative and technical work into the hands of the most creative, and the uncreative ones will go back to mowing lawns and laying bricks.
AI's primary impact on society will be the acceleration of the accretion of new knowledge, as researches will be able to move faster from a hunch to a new theory. It will have impact on software too. Where before it took 20 javascript ninjas to build an Amazon, it will now take like 2 especially creative javascript ninjas to build an Amazon.
AI is a compression algorithm. It is a means by which we can evaluate text more rapidly and confidently make judgements based on this as it relates to consensus knowledge.
We will see it used to rebel just as much as to oppress.
Many people are lazy, lack curiosity, and even are afraid of novelty because of luddist thinking, which you are demonstrating here by trying to say that AI is going to be net worse.
Unfortunately, like guns and nuclear weapons, pandora's box opening is a one way, trapdoor function. To dwell on the negative impacts of a technology without recognising that there's no making it disappear back into history again until it's proven useless, is a pointless exercise.
I tend to agree. I'd also like to add that using GPT takes skill. It often gives you inaccurate responses, but you can verify them for yourself, and the added value here comes from the possible solutions to verify (kind of like the P vs NP problem: it's easier to verify a solution than to find one).
People too often assume it's the same as asking a human expert; they expect answers to be server to them on a silver platter. But that's not how it works. Those who understand how those models work will gain a competitive edge; a new profession will emerge. It's already happening.
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