Damn it Bobby
For all its flaws, this is damn impressive that it can sound intelligent
I just tried this exact prompt with bing image creator.
The result looks like my first tries with photoshop:
Ah yes, salmon flying downstream for the winter.
There, now they’re going north as god intended
This looks kinda cool ngl
It likes levitating fish!
Image: fish flying half a metre above water. Also, is that upstream? Also, also is that even a Salmon?
That’s magical.
They can fly! Always suspected it, here’s the proof!1!!1!
Employers aren’t required to pay ai even minimum wage though. I think the fact that ai is shitty isn’t going to be enough to save jobs.
Hot take: jobs that are easily taken by AI shouldn’t exist
Think about it, do we really need hellish desk jobs?
Sure, but the issue is that employers will try to replace non-replaceable jobs along with the replaceable ones. Eventually employers will figure it out and hire people again for the non-replaceable jobs, but in the meantime, real people with real lives will suffer
They will just get another job. At the end of the day there are infinite amounts of jobs
What
There are already AI prompting certifications that are actually useful for some jobs
Fully agreed. The main holdup is compensation for people, such as universal income.
Not everyone can throw the towel in on a boring desk job and become a rocket surgeon.You get paid based on how hard you are to replace. That’s why Cobol (old programing lang) developers make bank while the dude at star bucks makes minimum wage.
The problem is the “race to the bottom”. Sure, some grindy desk jobs can gladly be taken by AI.
What about the jobs that AI does poorly, but when the low cost is taken into account it’s still seen as feasible?
Think of all the horrid DTMF phone menus and barely functioning voice recognition systems. We hated these as customers, colleagues, anyone who had to use them despised them
Cheaper than a receptionist, though.
Now imagine that level of frustration and poor service spread across every industry at every level. We’re talking about a total collapse of productivity across the entire economy. Not only do people lose their jobs, but the work isn’t even getting done to any standard, either.
That’s just it. A century ago people thought that with the rapid development, we would not have to work anymore. So that didn’t happen.
I’m pretty sure no one thought that
Maybe not “the end of all work”, but pretty close to it:
John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15 hour work week due to the rapid increases in production from emerging technologies.
He sadly didn’t forsee how ridiculous levels of production would become the new norm, subsistence would be mainly tied to employment, and all-encompassing ever-present work would become the state religion.
Sure, I guess we don’t need writers, painters, visual artists, musicians and filmmakers. I mean, what do they do really, enrich our culture and move our souls? Pff, AI can do that easily.
There’s definitely subscription fees and energy costs associated with enterprise level AI usage.
So majestic
AI, confused by this post: “What’s wrong? I know what Salmon looks like, I know what rivers look like, and this seems perfect!”
That’s great
Something concerning (not from a Luddite perspective, more from a lack-of-Universal Basic Income perspective) is 40% of translators have lost work to LLMs as of reporting from a few months ago. Highly technical folks haven’t much been bothered though. Wonder how this plays out ten years from now.
I noticed AI creeping in all WordPress translation plugins for a few months now.
Many are still in the new beta phase, but a lot launched full fledged AI translation.
It’s also in most sitebuilders like elementor, wp-bakery and the likes by now.
It enables creating customized widgets, like combining an existing bullet list widget with an image widget or enhancing it with frontend editing.
Depending on how good and reliable this gets, it could wipe out this particular group of wordpress theme modders, which are quite a few.
Edit: there’s one area in which AI is really welcome and job safe: creating copy text and images when building sites. It always looks better with content and sometimes it would take too much time to get a presentable website filled with dummy content by hand.
Now you define your theme in the prompt and the magic happens.
It’s not about AI having God like intellect.
It’s about AI not having all that much to catch up to. I know we are slaves to our ridiculous egos, so ridiculous we constantly invent new ficticious supernatural forces that must have created us in their hypermagical, divine, amazing, perfect image (talk about hallucinating), but we aren’t all that.
We wandered around for the vast majority of our existence, about 200k years, before it occurred to some of us we could grow food in one place.
AI not having all that much to catch up to.
That’s what you think. But we will sooner have fusion power than AGI. Comparing it with the developement of personal computers, we’re currently at the stage of punchcard weaving machines.
And you base this on what? Both things are very hard to predict even for experts in the respective fields.
Experts in both fields have significant paychecks on the line for people believing them. Of the two, fusion is the only one showing (very minor) measurable progress.
We can’t even define what success would look like for AGI.
AGI is software with human like intelligence that can self-improve and the last two years is very measurable progress. We went from essentially nothing to multimodal models that can run on consumer hardware. OpenAIs new model, if they are to believed, is apparently much better at reasoning and can do long term research. I’ve also seen a few papers in the wild talking about self teaching methods and framework.
To be clear, I don’t know which will come first. It’s hard to know if the next leap is just a step or if there’s a giant chasm laying infront. I do know that it’s a lot easier to prototype with AI then fusion and there’s a lot more people working on it, both behind closed doors and publically on the internet. Fusion doesn’t have this advantage.
Your statement is basically a shot in the dark imo.
The problem isn’t that AI is going to catch up.
It doesn’t need to.
As long as it’s “good enough” then it’ll replace us because it’ll save the owners 0.01% in operational costs.
I’m guessing the actual prompt was “Generate an image of raw salmon fillets in a river”, and the entire point was to meme the hell out of it. Here’s what you actually get if you do the test in good faith. No levitating, no raw fillets, just salmon in a river.
Looks delicious. I’d snatch them out like a grizzly.
You must be built! Snatching grizzlies!
