So this article doesn't go into 'Unexpected ways generative AI will change how you work forever' instead is just an advert.
Generative AI and The Future of Work
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I write educational technical articles for a living. Dev tools, frameworks, security, APIs, infrastructure, web3, etc. I talk to the AI as if I would interview an expert on a subject matter. This usually gives a good starting point for an article, if the subject is general enough, and not too new. It's also good at structuring and rewriting texts. If you already have all the correct data, you can use it to write an o…
No offense but this approach worries me - it seems like a novel mechanism to (perhaps inadvertently) generate and spread false information. It takes a lot of fact checking to make sure everything is right, and if you do the research yourself that's a natural part of the process. It seems way too easy to minimize that effort in a process like this. I was already worried about ChatGPT-like systems generating mass-produ…
It's not as bad as it sounds.
And to be honest, I'm happy that this thing can't yet replace my job.
But yeah, it helps for more mainstream stuff to get started.
Re: Generative AI and The Future of Work
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I write educational technical articles for a living. Dev tools, frameworks, security, APIs, infrastructure, web3, etc. I talk to the AI as if I would interview an expert on a subject matter. This usually gives a good starting point for an article, if the subject is general enough, and not too new. It's also good at structuring and rewriting texts. If you already have all the correct data, you can use it to write an o…
Do you have examples you can provide of these technical articles? Because those topics your offered are really broad and very few people are knowledgeable about all of them, so it sounds like you're filling in your knowledge by querying ChatGPT. Using ChatGPT to fill in knowledge for a technical articles sounds bad. If I'm reading an article about security, I want it written by a security expert not a semi-layman plu…
Like I said, I fact check when I want to be sure.
Some things are more critical than others and many of the articles I write are pretty mainstream. After all, clients pay for articles that get them customers, and niche stuff often doesn't help here.
Also, security is a broad topic. I wouldn't write an article that explains how to implement your own secure hash algorithm. Often I just tell people how they could lose their keys or such things.
But yeah, thanks for your input. Learning what readers care about is crucial for my job and I'm always trying to get better at it.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
From Star Trek: First Contact: "When you build a machine to do a man's job, you take something away from the man." You surrendered the need to think to the machine. You are lesser for it. I don't think these AIs are just removing drudgery, like, say, a calculator. They actually do the work. Or more correctly, they produce something that will pass for the work. Wholesale embracing of this sort of technology is bad for…
Does this mean pair programming makes you a worse engineer? Or even just "asking for a second opinion"?
I don't think other people count as "machines."
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#65GPT3 has shown how ML can be trained on multiple unstructured data sources to produce structured information on demand. Iterate a few more versions from here, so that the models are stronger at producing the correct structured data, and the impact on every office job will be profound. I.e. instead of training a generative model on text from the internet, train it on every single excel file, sql database, word documen…
>I.e. instead of training a generative model on text from the internet, train it on every single excel file, sql database, word document and email your company stores. Then query this model asking it to generate Report X showing Y and Z.
This has already been possible for decades using old-fashioned automation (Python scripts etc.), assuming the data entry is designed for this.
Honestly, I think the reason managers have teams of people reporting to them is not just to give them unbiased information.
Part of it is probably ego stroking, but I suspect the humans in the loop are doing some sort of analysis too, and reporting qualitative patterns that an AI might not pick up on.
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#66ChatGPT help me solve a refactoring bug today. I had spent hours messing around trying to figure out what the issue was until I realized, via asking ChatGPT, that I had misunderstood a piece of the code and the docs. It was able to answer and provide examples (until it had error and crashed) in a way a senior engineer might have been able to. The funny thing is I had tried just pasting in code and saying "find the bu…
From Star Trek: First Contact: "When you build a machine to do a man's job, you take something away from the man." You surrendered the need to think to the machine. You are lesser for it. I don't think these AIs are just removing drudgery, like, say, a calculator. They actually do the work. Or more correctly, they produce something that will pass for the work. Wholesale embracing of this sort of technology is bad for…
I disagree with this being an example of your point. OP tried to be lazy “find the bug”, but that failed because the machine could not think for them. Then OP used a tool that helped them better understand the code, and found the bug. That’s not lazy, that’s smart.
Re: Generative AI and The Future of Work
#67GPT3 has shown how ML can be trained on multiple unstructured data sources to produce structured information on demand. Iterate a few more versions from here, so that the models are stronger at producing the correct structured data, and the impact on every office job will be profound. I.e. instead of training a generative model on text from the internet, train it on every single excel file, sql database, word documen…
Deep thinking work will not go away. From trades to tech. It'll change work for sure, but it's not going to obliterate workers jobs.
I'm no luddite, but I've seen enough rocky digital transformations to know that human beings don't operate like manufacturing pipelines. Automation and AI assisted automation will be harder to generally implement.
But what I do feel confident about is that there will be a large mass of consultants who'll sell and expensive dream to a lot of mid tier businesses. The next big flex for business IT will be to have a notch on your belt for a failed AI automation project.
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#68Does anyone else feel like the crypto crowd just migrated to AI?
what a weird moment to take a stab at AI, right now when all the projects are starting to bear fruit and we can see advances that remind me of moore's law in the 90s.
these projects have direct commercial applications right now.
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Re: Generative AI and The Future of Work
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or worse, subtly inaccurate. The problem I have with generative AI right now, its product looks like it makes sense and sometimes it does, but there is always the risk of total nonsense hidden somewhere in the middle. So you still need someone capable to check and correct for most professional work, and sometimes that is harder or more time consuming than making the product itself. The same sort of problem with self…
Which is similar to correcting subpar human results: Rather than meticulously correcting the works of a subpar programmer it is much more efficient to let a proficient developer produce the code. Or even better, engage a 10x developer.
Most problems don’t require efficient code.
If an inefficient programmer can solve a real world business problem in a fraction of the time, but it requires slightly more computing resources, I’d still pay for it. Efficiency can be measured in a lot of dimensions and often times spending time and money writing optimized code is inefficient as well.