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OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along. It makes me kind of worried actually that there’s not much more gas in their particular tank and the whole “transformers can do everything” thing is reaching a plateau.

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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This might seem like a childish retort, but I genuinely think that the job of CEO should definitely be given to AIs. I mean, it's both the most expensive and most risky job of them all, and there's nothing a CEO does that even the current LLMs couldn't handle.

The ROI should be fairly high.

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"Some creative jobs maybe will go away," Murati said in an interview at The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth University last month, as quoted by Fortune. "But maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place."

Why should the jobs have not been there in the first place? If someone is willing to pay another person to perform a job, so be it. It's their money. To say it maybe shouldn't have existed in the first place seems.. narrow minded.

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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post #2

Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along. It makes me kind of worried actually that there’s not much more gas in their particular tank and the whole “transformers can do everything” thing is reaching a plateau.

OpenAI is not the only game in town. And Anthropic seems to think they've got another trick up their sleeve since their current leading model is only their mid-product line with plans to release the top tier Opus later this year.

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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post #2

Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along. It makes me kind of worried actually that there’s not much more gas in their particular tank and the whole “transformers can do everything” thing is reaching a plateau.

> Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along.

How does the first sentence lead to the second one here? How are you gleaning anything about that from watching a video with no sound?

And why is it obvious that they're making it up as they go?

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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post #2

Watch videos with OpenAI execs without sound. It’s quite obvious they’re making up their outlandish claims as they go along. It makes me kind of worried actually that there’s not much more gas in their particular tank and the whole “transformers can do everything” thing is reaching a plateau.

LLMs are nothing more than statistical token prediction engines, feed it bullcrap and it will statistically provide bullcrap. There is no novel thought behind them, and they're marginally more complicated than your phone's keyboard Next Word Predictor.

So, yeah, they'd fit in place of an McKinsey alumni sitting in a C-Suite transparently.

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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"Some creative jobs maybe will go away," Murati said in an interview at The Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth University last month, as quoted by Fortune. "But maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place." Why should the jobs have not been there in the first place? If someone is willing to pay another person to perform a job, so be it. It's their money. To say it maybe shouldn't have existed in th…

We used to have a job called computer, and people were employed as computers in living memory. When we say that a job does not exist, we speak about how we wish to walk going forward.

Re: OpenAI CTO says AI should displace some creative jobs that shouldn't exist

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This might seem like a childish retort, but I genuinely think that the job of CEO should definitely be given to AIs. I mean, it's both the most expensive and most risky job of them all, and there's nothing a CEO does that even the current LLMs couldn't handle. The ROI should be fairly high.

This is an idiotic take for 2024. A CEO has to hold an enormous amount of information in-brain and make decisions based on all of it, and handle interpersonal relationships, and manage people, etc. LLM’s can barely handle the information in the context windows they have now.
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