https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/18csb2g/were_so_fucked/
Scroll down to the "Sarah Conner is a fictional character from popular movie franchise..." comments. G is mentioned.
Really impressive if it were truly real time.
*sigh*
Google just launched a new AI and has already admitted at least one demo wasn't real - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992737/google-gemini-misrepresentation-ai-accusation
>wasn't real
I have the suspicion we'll see a lot of that in the future. ChatGPT is a great resource, but it is really more like a conversational wrapper around search engine data vs. a real thinker. I have caught it making very basic mistakes that a young child would catch. We seem to be some time away from true AI still.
It's hard from that article to evaluate just how much of the video was fake, but it seems like most of the core capabilities are "real," that is to say artificial ;-)
We've discussed this before, but I'm curious Littleman, as a parent whose parental advice is perhaps being ignored by genuine teenagers and early 20-somethings at this very moment, what kind of career advice do you give to young adults in the age of AI?
> and early 20-somethings at this very moment, what kind of career advice do you give to young adults in the age of AI?
One is an an aspiring artist, one manages a crisis center she's been working at since she was 15 (the weight lifter), one is majoring in regional and community development and one is twelve. I think the one that is most likely to be made redundant by AI is probably the artist. The other two adult children will most likely be more needed due to AI. When they were younger I tried to gently push them into STEM but they lost interest over time.
Honestly, I think a lot of STEM jobs are ripe for being picked by AI. My brother was telling me about video from a developer conference where the speaker was showing off the dramatic coding abilities of their AI and the developers CHEERED.
Jobs that involve actual relations with actual people will be the safest haven in this storm I think. Much better to be a crisis center worker than a software developer or a devops engineer or an accountant.
Regulatory capture will protect the medical field for a long time and the desire for service by a human will protect a lot of other service jobs even if an AI can do it better (therapy, for example).
I'm not sure what to think of the artist. I think there are a LOT more artists making a living than ever and AI is only going to affect a small number of production graphic artists. For most people in the visual arts, their bread and butter is in teaching and the number of people with decent attendance at their paid online classes and in-person workshops is pretty high. That particular category of expenditure is, ahem, a component of our household budget.
Their art is just the portfolio. If an artist had good art, can tell a good story and has some teaching ability and some hustle, that can be a nice living. But you need to out all that together. Making a living by selling watercolors is next to impossible.
I think diagnostic radiologists, actuaries, accountants, paralegals, many types of engineers, software developers, voice actors and writers, to name a few, are screwed.
Seth Godin says that AI is the death of mediocrity. If an AI is a good therapist, why pay big money for a bad one. But a good human will always present something a good AI cannot, in much the same way that people like live music even though in most respects it sounds worse than recorded music.
It's most definitely a long shot, but I would not count the artist as a casualty of AI just yet.
>screwed
There are companies that provide fleets of cubicle lawyers (now remote since pandemic) to do the discovery process in big lawsuits. That mostly is reading thousands of internal emails and flagging anything that is pertinent. My BIL has worked for one for 5-6 years now. They haven't commissioned him since October when AI was installed.