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All humans need to start being compensated for all the data they generate that gets collected. Start giving fractions of stock or whatever for all human input which can now more than ever be endlessly productized.
I have no doubt it will happen one day and I'm happy to submit myself to it. If nothing else, if I die prematurely my children will be able to get some sense of the kind of person I am and the kind of people I want them to be.
Udemy has recently forced all Instructors to accept the AI mode for their content. So expect soon the courses to be 100% GenAI. Expect the same coercion, for a future role at any company: "We will record all you do to train your GenAI replacement". Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite... https://www.aiaaic.org/aiaaic-repository/ai-algorithmic-and-...
> Maybe it will apply to the C-Suite... Of course it won't, though those roles are probably the most suited to being replaced by a not-so-bright chatbot.
> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…
I just saw this design update on substack. For everything's sake, whyyyyy?
[0] Apple settings make no sense. How do I still get two word replacements (see [1]) when I turned off autocorrect? Predictive text? Check spelling? I've tried them all! And why the fuck does "auto capitalize" not capitalize the letter i? It's so prolific you can identify an iPhone user by that single error. How the fuck does no one think to fix this?
[1] "far" was accidentally swiped as "fast" then as I typed "less" it became "day less". Stop changing two words! 95% of the time it is erroneously changing a word. 4% of the time it's a case like this where the first word was wrong anyways but never gets the right word. Give me a prompt to change and let me accept, not force this on me. Idk, a blue squiggle. Jesus fuck, why is trying on a phone harder than it was a decade ago when swipe was introduced?!
> the thing that scares me about the existence of this data is that it seems well within the capabilities of current technology to train a model that can replicate me , in some sense There’s already all of your posts on social media accounts, all your emails on various servers, all of your text messages, all the notes you’ve written anywhere in any form that might end up in some database in the future. It does make m…
Our social media personas are also tiny subsets of our actual personalities. I think most people don't reveal their full character in any one medium. now phone conversations—that would be a goldmine and a nightmare.
The flip side to this is that if you come to depend on a companies AI, then if you leave or are let go, you are leaving a significant part of yourself behind that you cannot take with you. This is a real problem companies need to address before I even begin to trust or rely on these tools. It's going to lead to massive growth of shadow IT.
Anecdote: I recently opened VScode on my personal laptop for the first time in a year or two and, having got used to the internal AI assistance we have at work, my own non-AI-enhanced VScode felt so primitive. Like using Win95-era notepad.exe or something. It was palpable - that was "a moment" for me. Programming has changed.
(I find it moderately useful at work, but apparently not enough to realize it's missing unprompted).
Funny how automation is only a problem because workers don't own much of anything they create. Meaning, if I owned my business then automating myself away would be a dream! But for most people, automating yourself away means a complete loss of income. I'm sure there's an economic lesson, here, our country will completely ignore.
There's nothing preventing people from creating employee-owned co-ops. In fact there are some large and successful ones, like WinCo. We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory, and more especially we learned lessons from the mountains of skulls those countries left behind.
Until you have an AI manager that calls out your bullshit and fires you without having to worry about the messy human empathy aspect.