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blueSGL t1_j8et22l wrote

I'm not going to decry tech that generates stuff based on past context without, you know, seeing the past context. It would be down right idiotic to do so.

It'd be like showing a screenshot of a google image search results and it's all pictures of shit but cutting off the search bar from the screenshot and claiming it just did it on its own and that you never asked for shit.

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[deleted] t1_j8erm4h wrote

Yeah my sister hits me with that. I’ll be discussing like major social issues or economic collapse and she will say “but did you watch blah blah blah on Netflix”. Like dude what the fuck are you talking about. But we are all crazy for being concerned instead of just consuming.

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Borrowedshorts t1_j8erk8h wrote

It's as good as it sounds, and you can't really fake performance on a dataset such as this. Multimodal models will change the game. I don't think multimodal models by themselves are the end game, but they appear to be poised to takeover state of the art performance for the foreseeable future.

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Superduperbals t1_j8epn5m wrote

AI itself isn't really the point of issue, consider the printing press, or the internet, it's the social, cultural, economic transformation that it comes in its wake that really matters. In our case now, we're looking at the potential automation of knowledge work, and certainly this implies that many people are going to be made redundant or replaced by a superior AI.

But I think you're missing the fact that this power dynamic isn't a one-way street, you may have access to the same level of productive AI tech that your bosses leveraged against you in the first place. Already, look at how many people are incorporating ChatGPT into their workflows, soon enough, it'll probably be able to handle 95% of any knowledge tasks that you ask it to do.

If a calculator is like having a math whiz in your pocket then the future of AI will be like having a Fortune 500 company in your pocket; accountants, lawyers, engineers, designers, assistants, salespeople - it would cost you millions in wages to buy that kind of people power - AI will do for less than what you pay for home internet. One person would have the potential to be as productive as a whole startup, or a dozen, even a corp with one million employees.

If you haven't guessed by now this will only make income inequality far, far, far worse. As even more wealth and power is centralized into an even smaller number of hands. Opportunties to get rich quick will be everywhere yet at the same time so far away. No doubt it will accelerate capitalism to its inevitable terminal breaking point. The real issue here is the paradox of, why do we have a progressively shittier quality of life overall despite exponential improvements to productivity across the board? And the answer will be, grimly, that we are both incapable and unwilling to conquer our greed.

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TinyBurbz t1_j8enxuf wrote

>I guess I’m saying that Intelligence without Sentience isn’t really Intelligence at all. No non-sentient thing has intelligence.
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>GPT’s shortcomings are extremely evident in OP’s conversation because emotional intelligence is necessary in order to have anything we may call “intelligence” at all, and I blame the marketers of such tech for promoting such a shallow, laden, Sci-Fi term

YeAh BuT wItH tImE

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Borrowedshorts t1_j8emd66 wrote

One conversation where the user got to make it say weird stuff because he purposely manipulated it does not mean it needs to be taken away from all users. I use it a little bit like a research assistant and it helps tremendously. Do I trust all of its outputs? No, but it gives me a start to look at topics in more detail.

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