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[deleted] t1_jc93snm wrote

Anything that requires actual creativity and manual dexterity. Aka every tech job outside of basic coding.

The world actually runs on good enough fixes. AI as it exists now is never going to have creativity. Calling it AI at all is embarrassing. It’s elaborate plagiarism that impresses morons.

That’s nothing new, it has just been automated.

When “AI” is capable of actual thought then this becomes a different discussion, and we are nowhere remotely close to that.

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audioen t1_jc9mq5x wrote

I am not so negative. Sure, it is something like statistical plagiarism. On the other hand, I have seen it perform clever word-plays that I do not think exist in its training material. After it generalizes from many examples, it displays fluidity in association and capabilities that are quite remarkable for what it is.

Much of what we do today involves working on a computer, consuming digital media and producing digital output. I am going to just claim that all of that is amenable to AI. We were all completely wrong in predicting what programs could do -- it turns out that the most important thing is simply affordance. If it is data that computer can read, then it can do something with it.

Much of what we think that is intelligence appears to be barely better than that plagiarism that you decry. I mean, work we do is typically just about doing repetitive tasks every day which are similar to what you did before, and applying known formulas you have been taught or learnt by experience to new problems. I am afraid that human creativity will not turn out to be all that different form machine creativity.

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