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ryan_s007 OP t1_j8dt0zd wrote

Automation is one of the most impactful trends shaping our world today. It has the potential to greatly improve productivity and quality of life, but also raises concerns about job displacement.

Chatbots like ChatGPT could play a transformative role in ensuring the benefits of automation are distributed fairly. This relatively tame application of ChatGPT could have far-reaching implications for the future of automation design.

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googajub t1_j8duy3p wrote

Many jobs are already superfluous since the last century. Automation happened and workers got the shaft. Production is up, efficiency is up, and inequality is up. Technology is just a tool. Capitalism is cancer.

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googajub t1_j8dzkam wrote

Response to your previous reply: how is that different from the Internet? Automation and convenience just made our jobs harder and scarcer. One person can do the work of 50. Less jobs for less pay.

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rixtil41 t1_j8f95s6 wrote

There is a typing point. Like a bridge you can only put so much weight before it collapses. If nothing changes then to me where not that far from collapse.

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googajub t1_j8fganc wrote

I felt that way in 2001. Now "Dubya" is like our sweet uncle. Grateful Dead called it back in 1970...

>One way or another, this darkness got to give.

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ryan_s007 OP t1_j8e2arf wrote

The likely solution is probably something along the lines of AI managing all the aspects of human life while we live like the humans of Wall-E.

The other solution is to reject modernity and connivence and return to the lifestyle of our predecessors.

But if we assume automation is inevitable, ChatGPT allows for more inclusivity in the near future. Before robots begin programming other robots without any human intervention anyway.

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SweetBabyAlaska t1_j8exii1 wrote

that is so naive that its painful.

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ryan_s007 OP t1_j8ezrkx wrote

It's a conjecture on something I have done zero research on. The only defensible prediction I've made is that chatbots like ChatGPT will eventually become functional translation mediums.

I'm curious to know what makes you feel so confident in your own predictions.

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ElendX t1_j8eonfs wrote

The problem is that automation is still just a tool, if we don't design society with these disciplines and everyone in mind, we are going to be in a very difficult and unequal society.

Furthermore, whilst text and image generation seems to be automated, the more manual parts of our work are still quite manual. Manufacturing and farming are still very manual processes.

Lastly, there's a huge risk that the internet will be flooded with generated content even more so than before. And at that point we are recycling things and that could potentially lead to these models losing their ability to be innovative as they will be overwhelmed by content they created.

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ryan_s007 OP t1_j8f03fs wrote

To your last point, the strength of these chatbots within an automation context is their ability to be fine-tuned on curated datasets.

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Genivaria91 t1_j8fz8p7 wrote

As long as quality of life is determined by wealth than the only people that automation will help is those few who own the machines, the many millions who will be losing their jobs will be doomed to lifelong poverty.

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