People can buy directly from the producers but most of them don't because working out what is good produce, whats a good price, negotiating all of the deals and getting it all put together and delivered would be a giant waste of their time that is frankly better spent doing other things.

You are assuming that UI design is the most important thing that I do. Its the LEAST important thing that I do. I hire people straight out of uni to do it because its monkey work. Absolutely no talent or skill required.

What I do that is valuable is get Founders in a room, create a product strategy, understand the value they provide to users, design how we can create a system that amps that to 10. Test that hypothesis and get them to pivot and iterate a few times before we start coding anything.

I save them time, money and get them to product market fit faster. The UI means fuck all haha.

If you are a UI designer.. sure bye bye job but you were really lazy to begin with because that just is the least valuable thing we as product designers do.

You are still going to need a good brain for product strategy, and know why you shouldn't over complicate your product at launch, and slim down everything you COULD do into only the things you SHOULD do and I have worked with 100s of Founders. The one thins I know is none of them think like this and will still need experts on their side to stop them making big mistakes and spending too much on building something no one needs.

This just lets me do that even faster.

wow art generation but with less scope so crazy

People buy grocery from grocery stores because they can't buy directly from the producers, so when it comes to ai, why would they pay you when they could get access cheaper, or especially when it's not even hard for you to do it yourself. Capitalisms about capitalizing the barriers to access. GL out there providing minimal edge case services.

But why do they need to come to you at all if they, using this and other apps, can create their own stuff?

true.

More likely code generation with restricted scope, that looks clean in a way that you don't get with image generation

So I own a Product Design agency and I have been trying to use stable diffusion to do something like this but with very mixed results.

I wondered how I would feel when AI came for my industry, I think its easy to get scared but tbh I am fucking pumped.

We have been trying to work out in our agency how to go from strategy workshops / research into full product design as quickly as possible.

This is going to get our product design and launch timeframe down from 30 days to a matter of a week or 2.

We can focus on research, strategy and solving real user needs and focus less on creating a log in flow for the 500th time. Can't wait.

GIVE ME ACCESS NOW!!

This is mind-blowing

This is basically art generation with restricted scope. Which is great.

I think a 'fast takeoff' is more likely than a slow one. We have a billion components for ASI just laying around waiting to be connected, along with plenty of decentralized computing tech. An AGI could most likely improve itself a lot faster than some people seem to imagine, if that were its goal, but thanks to the foundations of "turing test" and "captcha" I think the real question is: would anyone even notice?

Slow and gradual enough that we have a good chance of achieving a decent level of alignment, especially seeing the practices, algorithms, and methodologies developed for Alignment by companies like Microsoft and open-Ai.

You are making the same mistake that all secular ideology inevitably falls into. As paradoxical as it sounds, here we should learn more from the big religions: every time a group of fanatics goes crazy, the mainstream imposes a different name on them and splits them from itself; in this way, the madmen become a sect, and the "coherent side" can keep the original name. The problem is that the secular do not love ideas as much as the religious love God, they care more about their own image, they choose to split themselves and create their own ideology with blackjack and hookers rather than stepping firmly and defending the dignity of the projects that they support. Your posts on Future Timeline were a great source of inspiration for me to become a singularitarian many years ago, and to happen to find you on Reddit saying this, giving up the Singularity because you find yourself unable to put up a fight against the retard techno-religious, well... I'm disappointed. Regards.

I started paying for chatgpt pro.

Yeah, I very quickly realized it was still a filtered product nowhere near as magical as it was in early December.

I need an unfiltered model of similar capability - gpt 3 is close but not quite there.

I'm underwhelmed by Google in general. For me, their search works worse than it did in 2016. I literally can't see the search results there were in 2016, even though I know they are online, because I have saved links to some of them. Very disappointed. 2023 doesn't feel like 2023, more like 2015 or so.

The main thing is that it writes code

Given enough hardware resources and capacity, with evolutionary programming, this is as clear of a threshold to the singularity as we are going to get. Will it happen this year? I don’t know. But if it is writing code, if the singularity Ai can be written in any code similar to todays languages then it is just a matter of time before an infinite number of digital monkeys write the proverbial Shakespearean play or whatever that string of code summons our silicon overlord

Ernie for the win

The only reason I never gonna use Bing is censorship. I once tried Bing around a year ago to search for some pirates content and they didn't show corrctt search results and mentioned that they deleted some pages for their made-up rules. Google was atleast showing some results. I fucking hate censorship, I don't know who is the target audience who asks for all this censorship.

Google needs to do some layoffs.

Lmao. Bing is dead in the water. I will still use Google even with this GPT upgrade. That's how dead Bing is.

I always assumed some one or cyborg society would merge with the AI. It may come down to arbitrary semantics to describe what happens.

I always assumed a combined cyborg hive would always be stronger than AI alone. The last human creators would have more incentive and more capability than (relatively) detached programmers, if there could even be such a thing, considering anyone reading this today is already essentially a cyborg.

That AI is writing code already is what skews the odds a bit now. it becomes a bit more likely someone will give a detached AI enough computing power to use evolutionary programming to bootstrap a sci-fi singularity. I still think this is less likely than a neural implant cyborg hive mind singularity, but the odds are approaching 50:50, where before I thought it was more like 90:10 to be cyborg based instead of straight hardware.

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Np

Big shocker, capitalist overlords restrict ground breaking technology! They do this to better monetize it unfortunately

Interesting. I just tried ChatGPT and it had no problems with it:

Sure, I'd be happy to help you write a cover letter for a job. Please provide me with the following information:

• The job title and company name
• The name and title of the hiring manager (if available)
• A brief description of the company and its mission
• A description of your relevant qualifications and experience

With this information, I'll be able to create a personalized cover letter that highlights your fit for the position and showcases your skills and experience.

exactly! I guess once a few of these companies go broke and get bought for cheap will they get it