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Does ChatGPT fill you with dread? Existential? Economical? War-level disaster?
It fills me with a sort of giddy anticipation, which I would say is potentially Existential? It certainly makes me think the world will be drastically transformed in my lifetime. I believed in AGI theoretically but ChatGPT makes me feel it.
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No. I've always been a materialist/determinist and always believed that "consciousness" or even derivatives/markers of it, like coherent language or art, could be modeled.
Meh. ChatGPT doesn't automate away the type of code I write (Ironically, I write ML models). Which is relatively trivial but all the added value is in knowing what to write.
In a future where ChatGPT can automate me away. Just about every other profession but prostitutes are automated away as well.
But I don't believe that will happen. Keynes's 15-hour work week never happened. The outcome is probably more bullshit jobs, not less. It's not like the capital owners who will greatly benefit from their newfound AI-generated wealth will just want things as they are now; many things still suck! And more manpower could be directed towards making things suck less.
The failure mode could be that economic inequality becomes so top-heavy that the system topples.
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Of course I was being melodramatic. Thank you for your perspective. Agree on the materialist point, even though it was really strange to have it hit my face so... mundanely?
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