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it’s probably a net gain in the long run, but it’s going to cause a lot of damage in the process
Every time Sam Altman announces some new offering at OpenAI, I get a little more thankful I don't have any children.
It's really hard not to agree with the response above.
Very good discussion there. “I am 68 years old, on the opposite spectrum of life’s journey. At your age, I had the same passion to be a writer. But when personal computers became available just a few years later, that passion changed to becoming a computer programmer. I’ve been doing that ever since. My point is: Don’t lose your passion. Learn everything you can about this new technology and figure out how to use it…
But I'm in my 30s, which means on average I have another 40-50 years of existence to get through.
IMHO the advancements in technology related with industries in which the end product is digital (movies, animation, texts, programs, etc.,) instead of fundamental spatial services like automation of food productions, cleaning, garbage collection, house building, etc., is a direct consequence of physical space being a luxury around the world, with housing and renting prices skyrocketing. The Garage Culture is a privil…
(you didn't imply otherwise, but I know there's a common misconception that space is running out and the world is overcrowded. It's largely not true)
Every time Sam Altman announces some new offering at OpenAI, I get a little more thankful I don't have any children.
Well I thought it was gonna be about the hostile deep-fakes but it's about career threat for creatives. I do wish the robots were doing more mundane or labour intensive tasks and leave the art to humans.
We happen to be in a weird little valley right now where some tasks are still impossible for artificial beings to do better than us. This is a very short term aberration.
If we are still here in a couple generations, when artificial beings have surpassed our output in every way that matters, then we’ll have a choice to make about what we produce for fun. Not because we’re better at it or because it is profitable, just because we want to.
Writing stories, making music, making movies, plumbing, carpentry… the only humans who do these things will be the humans who feel like it.
I don't like using these tools in my own work and I hope tech companies are somehow held accountable for using everyone's data without permission, but I'm actually pretty optimistic that this won't displace that many professional artists once the money people get a handle on how the attention economy actually responds to this stuff. I'm a lot more worried about people using this stuff to create propaganda, to frame people for crimes, or to create non-consentual porn of people.