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whatistheformat t1_jcy2eda wrote

take a look at the turmoil that surrounds us and just ask yourself what AI is going to be used for. Are we going to use it to make our society better? To lessen the load on the overworked? To help lift up the disadvantaged? Hahaha. no.

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SidewaysFancyPrance t1_jcyr5rk wrote

Human brains are hackable. AI will be tuned to hack the brain the same way advertising and marketing people have been doing for decades, but it will be refined and bespoke for each target. It will be cheap, it won't sleep, and can be cloned to scale up massively.

AI is going to be a horribly negative force in society. The AI we are seeing now is capital that will be built, owned, and IP-protected by capitalists to enrich themselves at great cost to society.

If an AI can do something good for society at any point in the future, a capitalist will figure out the value of that good, try to capture and monopolize it to control scarcity and make it more valuable, then bleed the hell out of it to extract profit.

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nmarshall23 t1_jcy4beq wrote

I'm dreading the day AI can write code.

Imagine all of those fake mobile games being made real, but they're a buggy mess with spyware.

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blueSGL t1_jcz9z0p wrote

> I'm dreading the day AI can write code.

Self fixing code generation is already in the pipeline for simple programs. (that was the middle of last year. ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3MBQm7GFIM&t=260s @ 4.20

GPT4 can do some impressive things:

>"Not only have I asked GPT-4 to implement a functional Flappy Bird, but I also asked it to train an AI to learn how to play. In one minute, it implemented a DQN algorithm that started training on the first try."

https://twitter.com/DotCSV/status/1635991167614459904

a scrip dubbed "Wolverine" that hooks into GPT4 and recursivly resolves errors in python scripts.

https://twitter.com/bio_bootloader/status/1636880208304431104

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Saerain t1_jcyfwmy wrote

Many do write code, it's fantastic.

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[deleted] t1_jczzyq2 wrote

Not sure why this is downvoted. I have already gotten GPT to generate working code with very little input.

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SlowMotionPanic t1_jd0u2ps wrote

r/technology is really more for people who dislike or distrust or don’t understand technology. It never ceases to amaze me how many people who don’t work in Tech hang out here and insist things which are quite plainly wrong.

GPT is a novelty for me, just like copilot. I throughly believe that the people professing it’s usefulness in the workplace—including but not limited to dev work—are generally lower level. Chat GPT went down today and a ton of people remarked how they can’t do their jobs now. It’s right up there with the meme about the same every time StackOverflow goes down.

That’s one big thing I professionally fear from AI models or whatever we are going to call them. The cutting of corners including in code literacy. It’s my old man yells at cloud moment. People dabbling in coding and development when they are more like analysts than anything else (no shade to analysts, but it is an entirely different skillset and focus).

The people who rely and extensively use things like GPT and copilot will be the first made redundant when good old Sam Altman realizes his stated dream of having AI “employees” out compete and replace hourly or salaried humans.

I truly fear that a good chunk of people are fucking themselves right now. Especially junior level people. This is the time they should be learning and instead they turn to spyware which has an end goal, per Sam himself in an interview, to replace them.

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Saerain t1_jcyg1rr wrote

Yes? Look at all of recorded human history, and increasingly so, at an accelerating rate.

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downonthesecond t1_jcyvquz wrote

Most AI seems to already be limited on the topics they can discuss.

Their creators know best, after all.

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