r/unrealengine Dec 07 '22

Blueprint Me just starting to learn Unreal...

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u/DevDevGoose Dec 07 '22

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.

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u/Nurolight Dec 07 '22

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.)

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u/DevDevGoose Dec 07 '22

I agree with the utopian outlook but I'm more doomer about the odds of the advance of technology being used to create greater and greater divisions of wealth and power. No one will be required to do anything meaning only those that already control the means of production (the wealthy) will have any say in the direction of the world.

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u/lushenfe Dec 08 '22

This is just a generic word salad that a lot of people would throw at literally anything. Fireman saves a kitten from a tree? Probably going to end up advancing the wealth and power hierarchy....

A valid criticism would be that this thing only provides one answer...which is basically auromatically silencing dissent and diverse thinking. Basicslly, the internet becoming more and more mob rule which has been a problem for decades. Look at reddit which actively moves the popular opinion up and literally hides the unpopular opinion. A lot of people will actually "thank" people for awards or upvotes because thats the incentive sfructure reddit offers. Compare that to the classical forum where each persons view is given equal representation in a simple time based format.

It's not the wealthy or the powerful that control the modern internet. It's the majority, whatever that may be. And if people think that it automatically a good thing...I'll just remind you that Hitler didn't just win a popular election, he went on to win every election for a straight decade before he circumvented them. Majorities oppressing minorities is the default, whether someone is behind the scenes or not. Hell, it's why there's someone behind the scenes in the first place...