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ChatGPT is laying you off

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Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#13

Post by coldtea »

visarga wrote: post #10
AddictedA1 wrote: post #3

It will small business will start first cause they have excuse for less money, and in thirdy countries there are lot of hiring for small task that mostly can be automated but gpt-4 has more cleared gap by faster work. Its hard to swallow, u can hire 10 juniors or 4 + gpt69. Given that thousands of layoffs has shown everyone idea of a human worth too a company.

On the contrary. The more advantage you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. Your competition will assign more people and get more out of their AIs.

>On the contrary. The more you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need.

You'd be very surprised...

>AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine.

You can have 1 person do the hand holding, and get rid of several others, as the AI still lets the single person do their work far faster... e.g. instead of a week for the person to write a program, an hour or less to get the AI to write it with appropriate prompts, and then a day or for the human to clean it up and fix any gaps...

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

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Post by notShabu »

The most interesting part of this is that ChatGPT can create content with more "whimsy" and "humanity" than many tech leaders.

IMO The purpose of such announcements is to maintain the leadership (willing followership) role by reconnecting with followers with a hard-to-fake heart-to-heart. Without this, the warmth is gone. Followership becomes cold and is based primarily on health insurance, salary, visa, greencard, etc...

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#16

Post by visarga »

coldtea wrote: post #13
visarga wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary. The more advantage you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. Your competition will assign more people and get more out of their AIs.

> On the contrary. The more you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. You'd be very surprised... > AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. You can have 1 person do the hand holding, and get rid of several others, as the AI still lets the single person do their work far faster... e.g. instead of a week for the person to write a program, an hour or less to get the AI to write i…

There is no AI system today that can take high stakes decisions without human supervision. Not even invoice data extraction bots unless you want it to send 1,000,000 dollars from your account every now and then, instead of 1,000.

Re: ChatGPT is laying you off

#17

Post by smoldesu »

coldtea wrote: post #13
visarga wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary. The more advantage you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. Your competition will assign more people and get more out of their AIs.

> On the contrary. The more you want to squeeze out of AI, the more people you need. You'd be very surprised... > AIs need a bit of hand holding and judicious application to shine. You can have 1 person do the hand holding, and get rid of several others, as the AI still lets the single person do their work far faster... e.g. instead of a week for the person to write a program, an hour or less to get the AI to write i…

The parent isn't wrong. Even assuming you have superhuman AI with unlimited funding, your bottleneck will be human prompting and curation. The person who assigns more workers to that sector will scale faster and eat more of the market.
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