I've had several non-tech people ask me how ChatGPT has changed my job. To which I answer "it hasn't".
Ask HN: Are people in tech inside an AI echo chamber?
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How is crypto a passing fad? ETH is $2k and BTC $30k. Shouldn’t this be 0 by now?
Btc is a genuine intranational and international currency in the developing world. It is more trustworthy than many sovereign currencies. The fx applications of btc alone are enough to grant it legitimacy and fx is a the biggest of all the markets. In a de-dollarizing world btc is a genuine factor. The stable coins are an issue but stable coins aren't a necessity for btc transactions, they're a utility for traders. B…
If your nation's currency is so mismanaged that Btc looks like an appealing alternative that says more about your nation's monetary policy than it says about Btc.
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Everywhere?? That’s exactly the hype talk that’s going to burst this bubble. Here’s tech’s dirty little secret. Despite all the screams about automation and universal basic income… the exact numbers where job replacement would show are in the labor productivity numbers. If GDP stays flat or grows while the number of jobs is reduced… bingo… you’d see that number climb. Productivity has actually stayed flat or gone dow…
Maybe you live in a monolinguistic bubble, or speak every language fluently, but when is the last time you hired a human being to translate a language you don't understand instead of using AI like Google Translate? AI is already so ubiquitous and useful that you blindly take it for granted without even thinking.
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#404FWIW I have the exact opposite experience: people around me, who are _NOT_ in tech, keep talking about AI and lately especially ChatGPT, whereas serious (not only senior) IT professionals don't really. Besides the science behind it, currently it feels like the same hype as crypto a couple years before.
Same. My friends in other white-collar-ish jobs, which require lots of writing, are smitten with ChatGPT and think it's amazing. Friends in tech are largely dismissive/critical of it's abilities while being skeptical/fearful of its impact. My take is that, for most non-tech people, this is their first experience directing a computer to perform a precise task - ie programming. They're accustomed to using applications,…
I did not see a way where you can tell AI “make me a crud app for storing database of my post stamp collection” and it executes that.
It is quite a stretch to say that lay people can effortlessly write application only with AI whatever it is copilot or chatgpt.
You still have to know a lot of things to build simple crud to store data about stamp collection.
LLMs are not changing that.
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#406We certainly are, but so is everyone else. To varying degrees.
My own personal opinion is that depending on your particular area of expertise, you will have various levels of resolution of knowledge. We might be in an echo chamber on AI here, but many of us aren’t even real specialists on the subject. So, we fall prey to various cognitive biases [1]
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge
Regarding your friend - a few technological revolutions occurred without the general population really knowing anything about how they work. New tools show up, people use them.
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Crypto pushers pushed two contradictory messages: 1. hodl, don't sell, don't spend! 2. Try to replace fiat with crypto in your life! No wonder that its adoption for legal purposes didn't go anywhere.
Saving more than spending has also been popular advice for fiat, at times. More for medium/long-term personal purposes at the expense of immediate macro purposes, but I think that applies to both systems.
Central banks inflate their currencies on purpose to discourage hodling. Short term savings for emergencies are good. But by hodling fiat long term - you are just losing money.
Cryptobros thought that they are smarter than central banks and didn't bother to implement proper monetary policy in the Bitcoin protocol to prevent its volatility.
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#408I have talked about it with non it people and they knew about it.
Plenty of them.
And I showed it to a few and they were immediately impressed by it.
I also overheard people talking about it on the street.
So in my opinion: no.
And chatgpt has over 100 million users. People can use it in bing every day.
Adobe added it to their products too.
People already benefit from ai.
My company is also working on introducing more features it's just the time required to do it.
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#409All you can get in a survey like this is anecdotes and opinions. This may be sufficient for your purposes - here's my story:-) My sister is not technically minded. She has used chatgpt to create a request for permit for a backyard deck to city Hall, a letter to her boss requesting attendance to a conference, and her performance reviews. Another non techie and I use chatgpt to help us learn French and music theory. My…
How do you know that the French and music theory it’s teaching you is correct?
Would your question change if the tutor was a person? How do you know if anything anyone teaches you is correct?
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#410When it comes to content generation I think chatGpt is a gamechanger, more and more publications will convert most of their stuff into LLMs. It’s quite terrible for the consumer in the long term. For example I was reading news a few days about National Geographic gutting their writer staff. Get ready for a lot of mindless content sometimes vetted by humans, sometimes not.. This will affect us all, in tech or outside…
I feel like most content generation has been going toward lowest common denominator for a while.