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The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning. Where are the killer apps?
AI is popping up all over the place if you actually pay attention to the products.
> CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”. My partner let go two people and replaced them with ChatGPT. No joke. It can accelerate many business tasks e.g. copywriting, customer service, proof-reading, product design exploration, marketing campaigns etc. And its ability to do all of this in multiple languages and in different tones can be a really big deal for some businesses.
> CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”. My partner let go two people and replaced them with ChatGPT. No joke. It can accelerate many business tasks e.g. copywriting, customer service, proof-reading, product design exploration, marketing campaigns etc. And its ability to do all of this in multiple languages and in different tones can be a really big deal for some businesses.
Copywriting is definitely going to get decimated. Other jobs, like medical transcription, were already on the way out due to speech recognition tech even before generative AI blew up. And before people make "buggy whip manufacturer" arguments, the sheer pace of tech advancement is making wider sections of the populace unemployable faster than new job areas open up. I definitely think AI will cause the loss of millions of jobs, regardless of whether this particular CEO is running his company poorly.
I like to think that all the quantillion crypto mining computations were somehow a cover for the training of an ELLM that is now seeding LLMs to hide its existence. And that still makes more sense than this bs.
If only. Then those CPU cycles would at least have been doing something of value. If you look at crypto mining computations they don't (on the chains I have looked at) actually compute anything meaningful at all. It's literally just generating random numbers and then (almost always) throwing them away. Like you have Alice who says "Try to guess my number?", and then Bobs around the world go Bob1: "Is it 13?" Alice: "…
On the one hand, AI in its present form is a great learning tool, and little else. So you’d call the CEO a fool.
On the other hand, you have the leading AI firm publicly devoting 1/5th of its resources on controlling AI and declaring that we will likely have Superintelligence within this decade.
If the latter is right, this CEO might be a genius who was early on a trend, instead of a kook.
The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning. Where are the killer apps?
I’ve used it to code, learn, generate tweet threads, create upwork job posts, summarize large amounts of text.
With the right prompt, its a far better search engine than Google, especially for coding and health related queries.
If you can be a Google killer, you don’t need any other killer apps.
> CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”. My partner let go two people and replaced them with ChatGPT. No joke. It can accelerate many business tasks e.g. copywriting, customer service, proof-reading, product design exploration, marketing campaigns etc. And its ability to do all of this in multiple languages and in different tones can be a really big deal for some businesses.
There was a good article in the Washington Post, discussed on HN a week or two ago (would have to do some searching), about people who have already lost their jobs due to ChatGPT. Copywriting is definitely going to get decimated. Other jobs, like medical transcription, were already on the way out due to speech recognition tech even before generative AI blew up. And before people make "buggy whip manufacturer" argumen…
There’s no way this is remotely legal, right? Unless it’s some sort of on-prem product?
> making wider sections of the populace unemployable faster than new job areas open up
This is a real threat to the fabric of society and will require us to rethink things like UBI and taxing the means of production rather labor.
The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning. Where are the killer apps?
to me potential killer app is the search, you already now can find better answers fast in many verticals asking chatgpt than going through the tons of seo spam at google.
With the right prompt, chatGPT gives me far better insight and can even point out academic papers to back its claims.
I don’t know what to make of stuff like this. On the one hand, AI in its present form is a great learning tool, and little else. So you’d call the CEO a fool. On the other hand, you have the leading AI firm publicly devoting 1/5th of its resources on controlling AI and declaring that we will likely have Superintelligence within this decade. If the latter is right, this CEO might be a genius who was early on a trend,…
Shoehorning tech where its not working sounds like the blockchain boom to me. Even if crypto did take off, that would not have helped them survive.
CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”. My advice, figure out how to get the CEO fired and tell him he was right.
Once every business can one line invoke an LLM to sufficiently create apps, assuming we reach that stage (possible), isn't that going to kill 90% of VC B2B SaaS especially the YC style round robin of funding each other without generating actual value? Think the CEO's SWEs are the least of his concerns.