alt Hacker NewsBut are you ok with the trendline of ai improvement? The speed of improvement indicates humans will only get further and further removed from the loop.
I see posts like your all the time comforting themselves that humans still matter, and every-time people like you are describing a human owning an ever shrinking section of the problem space.
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tartoran • yesterday at 12:22 AM
Humans needing to ask new question due to curiosity push the boundaries further, find new directions, ways or motivations to explore, maybe invent new spaces to explore. LLMs are just tools that people use. When people are no longer needed AI serves no purpose at all.
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I used to be worried, but not so much anymore.
It used to be the case that the labs were prioritising replacing human creativity, e.g. generative art, video, writing. However, they are coming to realise that just isn't a profitable approach. The most profitable goal is actually the most human-oriented one: the AI becomes an extraordinarily powerful tool that may be able to one-shot particular tasks. But the design of the task itself is still very human, and there is no incentive to replace that part. Researchers talk a bit less about AGI now because it's a pointless goal. Alignment is more lucrative.
Basically, executives want to replace workers, not themselves.