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Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by anal_reactor »

mattlondon wrote: post #57
fluidcruft wrote: post #3

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.

Lol meanwhile I got to install correct syntax highlighting plugin after like two years at my company

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by chasing »

HideousKojima wrote: post #47
chasing wrote: post #27

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.

> We did learn an economic lesson from countries that tried to make employee ownership of the means of production mandatory…

You absolutely know that’s not what I’m talking about.

When wealth is siloed, workers are less able to advocate for themselves with risking their livelihood.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by SrslyJosh »

cmiles74 wrote: post #25
fluidcruft wrote: post #3

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.

That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week had a bit about how hey thinks all employees need to be using their AI products more: He highlighted the need for Google’s employees to use more of its A.I. for coding, saying the A.I.’s improving itself would lead to A.G.I. He also called on employees working on Gemini to be “the most efficient coders and A.I. s…

> That wacky article in the NY Times where Sergey Brin recommends everyone at Google put in 60 hours a week

Ah, yes, work 60 hour weeks so that Google can create AGI and lay off half of their employees. A brilliant plan for workers.

(I don't think they will create AGI, and "everyone working 60 hours a week" is the same kind of executive brainrot that leads to AAA games with $100 million+ budgets that get mediocre reviews. Throwing more resources at a problem does not guarantee a better outcome.)

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by SrslyJosh »

gukov wrote: post #38
esafak wrote: post #12

What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees? This is a problem only extreme outliers like Nobelists need to worry about. Rank and file employees are not gonna be replicated.

True, AI can be more productive, but as a starting point, fully automating a remote engineering seat is at the very least a great experiment. Wouldn't be the first time Google is doing something like this. See recaptcha and building numbers.

> True, AI can be more productive

Citation needed. =)

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by SrslyJosh »

esafak wrote: post #12

What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees? This is a problem only extreme outliers like Nobelists need to worry about. Rank and file employees are not gonna be replicated.

> What is the point in replicating an employee when the AI could be better than all the employees?

Wishful thinking at this point in time.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by babyshake »

wombatpm wrote: post #45
insamniac wrote: post #30

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.

Your inherent value as a data source becomes the justification for UBI

Incidentally, with the rise of OpenAI as a unicorn Sam Altman has seemed to get a lot less verbal about advocating UBI. Although I may be wrong about that.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by SrslyJosh »

belter wrote: post #20

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.

Re: Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

ForTheKidz wrote: post #48
Chance-Device wrote: post #15

> 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.

I can clone your voice ezpz, without much expertise with a 10 min phone recording.

Some banks still use "my voice is my password" for authentication. Crazy.

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