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MamaMiaPizzaFina t1_jc9plxc wrote

you should see my chatgpt chat history.

However, every second message it says to find a real therapists. so unless we are dealing with another AI that is trained to pretend to be a therapist and not suggest finding one. therapist might not be in as much danger.

However if there is a chat AI that is trained to pretend to be a therapist. and will not suggest contacting a real one. imagine the lawsuit and bad press as soon as one of their users (probably a few so maybe a class action lawsuit) commits suicide. imagine the parents and families with the chat history scrutinizing every chat log and blaming it for what happend.

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audioen t1_jc9mq5x wrote

I am not so negative. Sure, it is something like statistical plagiarism. On the other hand, I have seen it perform clever word-plays that I do not think exist in its training material. After it generalizes from many examples, it displays fluidity in association and capabilities that are quite remarkable for what it is.

Much of what we do today involves working on a computer, consuming digital media and producing digital output. I am going to just claim that all of that is amenable to AI. We were all completely wrong in predicting what programs could do -- it turns out that the most important thing is simply affordance. If it is data that computer can read, then it can do something with it.

Much of what we think that is intelligence appears to be barely better than that plagiarism that you decry. I mean, work we do is typically just about doing repetitive tasks every day which are similar to what you did before, and applying known formulas you have been taught or learnt by experience to new problems. I am afraid that human creativity will not turn out to be all that different form machine creativity.

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ThisAcanthocephala36 t1_jc9miql wrote

Finding hard unsolved problems, breaking off a small piece of one of them, and coordinating all of the resources and people necessary to solve it.

Other than that? Finding a niche as a fine craftsperson in an industry that’s already been “automated”, but handmade goods still command a premium if they’re any good. I personally know people in jewellery, furniture and textiles. It’s a long, hard road, but it’s durable.

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TheFunkuchen t1_jc9k6ks wrote

The current approach to AI requires large digital training data. So it can only do tasks where both input and output are digital. Apart from that, robotics are evolving very slowly in comparison. So anything that requires dexterity in a non completely standadised task is save. Cleaning tables, plumbing, laying tiles, repairing traffic lights, etc.

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Uptown-Dog t1_jc9hl5g wrote

LLM's and just AI-systems in general have been used by intelligence agencies well before ChatGPT came along. At scale, and in coordinated, find-grained, and concerted fashion across society in ways that would shock almost anyone. Should we be concerned? I mean, relative to all the other shit going on in our lives? I guess?? It's the sort of stuff that makes us ineffectual at putting up a coordinated defense against fucked up government policies, so sure, but OTOH there's just so much shit going on right now that in the same breath, well, meh.

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