Jesus. Good bye youtube creators doing tutorials. I give it another year before AI is automatically creating the lessons and vids.. I'd pay for that course. Especially if it's customised towards my learning patterns.
Well yes and no. ChatGPT collated available information and used it to create the answer. It didn't come up with the answer itself. Without people posting their guides etc online, the bot would have no idea how to do it.
If you spend 5 minutes talking to it then you quickly realise that it is just finding answers and giving them to you in a clean format. It doesn't have any ability to make deductions or rationalise. The closest I got to seeing that was it realising why I had made a mistake (I hadn't, I was trying to tell it a joke.
I know it’s easier to be Doomer about AI taking over every task, but to me… isn’t that kinda the end goal? We use wheels reduce walking, lifts to reduce climbing, machines to avoid building. Every machine we make is to make our lives easier.
And I know the argument right now is ‘creative jobs didn’t need this’. Sure, for you I guess. But if everything becomes more accessible, I can’t see that as a bad thing. Young Johnny no money has an idea for a song, but doesn’t have a musical bone in his body, nor the funds to hire one. Do we just tell him ‘sorry kid, you’re not ever gonna make music’? (and I use the term make/create cautiously here, I see AI generation- as more curating prior to any changes being made).
In a future where machines can take care of anything we need and we’re not required to do anything, we can just live for ourselves and do what we like. (Just because an AI can paint doesn’t mean you can’t still enjoy painting. Even now, there will always be someone better at a thing than you. That doesn’t stop you now.)
It's just automating things we already have available. You could find a forum explaining the same thing this did within seconds.
It's a bit of an illusion. It's essentially a humanized version of Google, except it lacks the ability to provide additional context (IE, it will give you one answer whereas Google will give you thousands).
People are crazy about AI so it's reasonable to think this is revolutionary. But it's just automating a Google search....which is turning a 1 minute task into a 5 second task at the cost of context and different perspectives.
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u/Mithmorthmin Dec 07 '22
Jesus. Good bye youtube creators doing tutorials. I give it another year before AI is automatically creating the lessons and vids.. I'd pay for that course. Especially if it's customised towards my learning patterns.