here’s the full explanation of that last bit from OpenAI’s technical paper:
aside from GPT-4, AI has recently made massive leaps. AI is capable of designing functioning websites and UIs through simpletext or image prompts. text to image AIs have been drastically improved (notably, midjourney 5) and are reaching the point where their outputs are hard to distinguish from real images. text to video AI is starting to exist. AI can recognize symptoms that doctors cannot. google and especially microsoft are pushing AI in their tools. microsoft in particular has integrated an AI copilot into all of its office 365 tools. AI has potential use cases everywhere. only a few years ago AI was a niche subject that was mostly used commercially to create recommendations and understand trends. now it’s something everyone is aware of and that is looking concerningly close to replacing or drastically altering many jobs. we’re potentially looking at a revolution in technology far more rapid than any that came before.
what do you think? how far do you think AI will go? how many jobs will it replace/reduce, if any? what should be done about it? what’s your opinion on the ethics of AI?
personally, I think that in the long term (not this year or next year, but in 5 or 10 years), this tech could end up making many jobs obsolete. what would be left of these sectors would mainly be jobs where people want human connection (HR, management), jobs around checking AI’s work, and jobs that cannot really be automated (skilled trades). I don’t know if it’ll be allowed to get that far, though. potentially unemploying millions of people would be pretty universally considered a bad thing.
I’m sure there are problems with this post. I’m tired right now so please don’t go too hard on me.