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MpVpRb t1_j9dmzag wrote

AI needs safety systems to protect against bugs and unexpected bizarre behavior

ChatGPT is a very early toy that people take far too seriously. It was jammed into search engines by clueless managers who wanted to catch the wave of hype. As AI matures, quality control and ensuring accuracy will become priorities

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pete_68 t1_j9dmim6 wrote

The code uses logic. But ChatGPT doesn't understand logic and can't be logical. Again, it's not very intelligent. I cant sometimes answer logical questions correctly, but not because it's being logical, but because the logical response is what's calculated as the next correct words, because of what was in the training data. You can teach it facts, but you can't teach it logic.

Which isn't to say one day it or one of its successors won't be logical. But today, it is not.

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clay12340 t1_j9dlupu wrote

Are you missing the entirety of the data space in IT?

The reason those jobs aren't replaced is because the people replacing them right now are generally more expensive, though produce a more valuable end product. So the most import tasks in this category are constantly automated. It is essentially what I do all day. Brenda's performance spreadsheets just aren't important enough to be on the chopping block yet.

All that said AI/automation has been improving the process of doing that for some time. I don't think it will be ChatGPT, but every major tool that is involved in the data space is currently marketing on their AI tools. Mostly it seems to be a bit of stretch to call it AI. They are definitely at the point where the work I was doing 5 years ago in this space is largely gone and replaced by tools that do the bulk of the repetitive work automatically. Now large chunks of it are essentially just identifying the failures of the tool and resolving them or handling the more intricate edge cases.

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clay12340 t1_j9djlqn wrote

What you're saying is possible. It's just the intervening decades that are a real problem. The US won't even handle insurance or a living wage at 40 hours let alone scaling back work to some limited few hours and offering those things. Sure it might happen at some point, but it's going to take pretty much a complete reworking of the governmental and financial systems. Those aren't generally things that happen quickly or quietly.

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jazzageguy t1_j9dj94h wrote

The ACA was never intended to "save a lot of money" but to get health care to a lot of people. It worked and continues to work. Unfortunately, Republicans demanded that it "pay for itself," unlike any other govt undertaking, and thus it had to include a tax on higher income people, which inspired hysterical and deafening opposition, and probably required some "cooking of the books" because stupid Republican demands like "balancing the budget" and "paying for itself" (that they only require of Democratic projects) are impossible to achieve. (Did the Iraq and Afghanistan wars pay for themselves? Hardly!)

Trillion is just a number. It exists whether you like it or not.

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cmcewen t1_j9dft2y wrote

No offense taken. I spend half my day talking people out of surgery

I suspect There will always be surgery. Some problems are simply a mechanical problem that can’t be fixed any other way. How can a hernia be fixed without surgery? It’s a structural issue. How can dead bowel be fixed without removing it?

Surgery will always be a component, but you’re right that it’ll always be changing. And we already do much less surgery on people than we used to and we use minimally invasive techniques.

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Atworkwasalreadytake t1_j9df398 wrote

That says more about your lack of knowledge than anything else.

Cell companies are all in high gear with 5G rollout and 6G development.

Do the new SpaceX launches represent newer faster tech or is it just about finishing the constellation rollout?

SpaceX and Cellular really aren't even competitors. In business we'd call them substitutes.

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jazzageguy t1_j9deqv0 wrote

What do you mean "even if referenced?"

"Without studies or economic analysis?" My God, what rock can you be living under, to be unfamiliar with all the published studies and analysis of this? There are literally hundreds. ALL saying the same thing. Consult Dr Google and take a look.

Or, just look at the health care systems of EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. They have all done what I said. They all spend less than half the money per capita of America. Many if not most have better outcomes by every measure, including longer lifespans and less chronic disease.

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RealisticSociety5665 t1_j9dede5 wrote

Eleven Labs A.I. allowing for new potential of Non Player Character Dialogue and Monologue for games like Skyrim/Morrowind through voice algorithm cognition is amazing. It opens new realms of potential for modding communities as whole storylines can be crafted using Eleven Labs which allows for an ever expanding narrative that never ends if constantly built upon by the community, to me this is the chance to keep a game from dying and to give it a whole new breathing life and epic. This is on a complete other level when it comes to story making capability due to Voice Acting constraints and limited voice lines, you could make super rich and enthralling narratives within sandboxes and enable the world to feel more alive by allowing more advanced A.I to contribute to the creation or modification of games. I have a bunch of saved clips of Dagoth Ur A.I memes and story extensions I can link for example

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