ChatGPT Stories

[honoroit]

42 minutes ago, Ankylosaur said:

It's why all these AIs are like the Industrial Revolution for creatives.

 

 

i think its awesome.  look, theres gonna be a shitfit. the instant businesses can, theyll cut staff. it costs 2x in overhead to put them in an office typically, and these days theyll quiet quit if they cant work from home whenever they like.

 

you see, theres an entire layer of people who's job was to be physically present and low grade intimidate (sorry, motivate).  thats, thankfully, cleared a bit with covid, but this 'ai can do job' thing... well, yes, in many cases.

 

for coding stuff, especially known problem domain with meta language coverage (think terraform, helm charts, cloudformation, various yaml and bobs for pipelines to consume) - the drive has been to reduce these to 'human readable' for those that couldn't.  now, and soon, that becomes consumption to models with goal seek patterns.

 

proper coding wise, its the same, we tell ourselves 'itll never be able', but know at the same: it is made of a stuff that encodes meaning to a language with form and rules. it has success criteria that can be derived or defined, it exists on networks with the same and has backing telemetry and protocols it complies with... 

 

people just want to scream at their compute: 'make bucket! set fire! put it out! attribute heroism to me. profits!' and so they shall.

 

2 years, im telling you, 2 years until its cutting folk left and right.

 

survive, said the prophet.

[cranebump]

The Industrial Revolution, like others of its type, will also put a lot of people out of jobs. 
 

I do think this is different. It’s dealing with emulating our intelligence, to the point where it may be indistinguishable from our own someday (perhaps even superior?). We’re ultimately always creating extensions of ourselves, from old style telescopes extending our eyesight, to dish washers that replace our hands. Ultimately, we’re saving time. But to do what? If we can create devices to emulate the fruit of our creativity, what then? Where then is our time spent, when everything we could do is done for us?

 

I realize this is personal for me, having always been writing and creating (mainly as a hobby). I won’t have to use anything like ChatGPT to do that for me. But others will. They’ll use a machine to provide an outline, and their novel will be written for them. Then, they’ll ironically take credit for doing nearly nothing. 
 

Yeah, that’s the extreme, pessimistic view. Until, or if, we see such a thing, I’ll live in hope that our collective wisdom proves to be enough.

[honoroit]

14 minutes ago, cranebump said:

Where then is our time spent, when everything we could do is done for us?

 

in the pursuit of the salvation of humanity, and glory of mankind? or in a drift towards a thrashing purgatory? sloth may reign, with the hedonist, and we'll rot in the brain.

 

 

[Ankylosaur]

That's always been the big future of work question... What is everyone going to do...

 

And actually I'm sure they'll be a pendulum swing and a made by humans movements, etc

 

But by creatives, yes, not just artists/entertainers - engineers, architects, lawyers, all sorts. AI works well within constraints 

1. I am sure it will be able to design a building to code lickety split.
2. Generative AI is already being used to design parts to meet performance specs in ways a person would never think of
3. Lawyers basically research and compile info to draw a conclusion or craft documents based on research to protect you. Seems right in its wheelhouse.

Lots of unknowns ahead for all of us...

[Clave Dark 5]

7 hours ago, cranebump said:

their novel will be written for them. Then, they’ll ironically take credit for doing nearly nothing.

Tell me what the definition of plagiarism is without telling me you're defining plagiarism.   😃

 

Also, btw: reading on the topic, someone pointed out that by playing around with these things, you're helping the company refine their product.  For free.  You know, just like how it's scraping material from the web to parrot, too!

Edited May 11 by Clave Dark 5

[Ankylosaur]

A pretty interesting example of AI used for role-play in Skyrim. Super-early example done with a mod but this lets you speak to characters using your voice, which converts it to text, feeds it to ChatGPT that understands Skyrim since all the characters etc are online, and role-plays that character back. 

 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Ankylosaur