AI generated content is pretty rapidly cranking out decent advice and emotional support, though. It wouldn't surprise me if the empathy professions begin to get phased out at least in part in the next few years. Especially roles like crisis line workers where it's entirely a support role without a clinical or diagnostic focus.

It’s a hammer for now, until the hammer grows legs, can recognize nails and wood and feel the need to build houses

No, according to all those Republicans, they will keep working just out of principle. So no worries. Let the jackasses carry the load. Just like always

This is why we need a global economic overhaul but there's a lot of power voting against it.

Shortages in labor won’t be a thing when robots do all the jobs, the creation of supply will be made by bots

Maybe they should

Association Between Consumption of Ultraprocessed Foods and Cognitive Decline

Yeah, seems plausible enough

well, they are thin- Plus 100 Points on tinder.

They dont sleep much... so more opportunity...

This articulated quite clearly why I’m really pessimistic about this technology. If you have 100 units of wealth for 100 people and say 70 to to the top 10, what if you make 1000 units of wealth for that same number of people, more wealth right? Except here it will be 990/1000 to the top 5/100 people. Not exact terms but illustrating a concept. Not good.

professional programmers are mad. i code for fun so yeah it will def kill programming in the traditional sense

Are you a programmer?

No, if anything it will make our jobs easier. Just another tool, probably also full of bugs

Once ai can write its own code it isn't just game over for programmers. It's game over for everyone. An ai that can replace programmers can also code a better ai, and with enough evolution can program any software anywhere, including the software that powers every business in the world.

Anyone who imagines that programmers will lose their jobs but the rest of the world will keep going as normal...doesn't understand how much of the world runs on software.

Programming will be one of the last jobs replaced by ai.

In the meantime ai will provide more and more powerful tools to allow programmers to create more powerful software in less time. Hopefully with less bugs.

Nope. Nobody's ever tried that before.

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I’m currently asking it to convert bash scripts and rust with some cryptography to nodeJS scripts. If an extension could compile and run the results to validate whether they run that would be incredible.

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What about you? Do you have any predictions according to your observation of our current trends?

Yeah, that ain't happening. Anytime mankind reaches a turning point he always goes the wrong way so by that historical presidence I am looking forward to seeing a world going very wrong, including on the AI front...

So tired of hearing about UBI. Someone somewhere still has to work to provide this. This only promotes apathy and no one will want work. This is why every UBI experiment has failed.

Reminds of the Edison legend where he "found 1000 ways to not make a light bulb."

Of course it will.

Probably faster than many other white collar professions. Why wouldn't it?

What is a programmer? I would say in the most naive understanding of the term it is someone that inputs instructions for computers to perform. Who's to say that a Natural language isn't just another obfuscation on computer programming languages? As is, no programmer is writing raw machine instructions, we are all using languages built on top of each other (usually) multiple layers deep. I don't see current "AI" as being anything more than another abstraction.

Think tank papers serve a good role, and many of the points the author lays out are valid. Most of them actually. However, she's not really adding anything to what is already an ongoing discussion across many industries on precisely the points she makes. Big picture, yeah she's bang on. More immediate picture, what does a "reset" look like? How does one concoct a reset? Get all the fortune 500 together and ask them to sign a pledge? Move a piece of legislation through Congress? A year from now, we're going to have much more powerful versions of what is today already powerful. Laws are not equipped to address it (won't get passed anyway); industry guidelines are only as good as a company's word.

So part of my reaction this article, which again is good, is, "yeah, and? What's your plan?" Just repeating what everyone else is already discussing, even if eloquently phrased, comes up a bit short for a think tank.

That’s an advantage, yes, as needing only four hours sleep would help with many things, but it will take tens of thousands of years for such a trait to work its way into the general population.