Posted 24th Mar 2023
So what impact is this step change in technology going to have?
If it can write code, create illustrations, write stories, what will people in the knowledge industry do?
Mass unemployment and hunger games?
If it can write code, create illustrations, write stories, what will people in the knowledge industry do?
Mass unemployment and hunger games?
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sorted byI can also see AI reducing the amount of grunt work that comes with developing.
Point an AI at a set of database tables and ask it to generate add/edit/delete admin screens for them? I think it's definitely something it could do. Even more Ajax-y things like getting it to autopopulate a "country/state" dropdown using your state table, based on what the user selects from the "country" drop down.
A set of screens that could take a week to code by hand could be done with 30 minutes of natural language description and maybe another hour of being more specific describing of elements with only minimal tweaks to the code.
Such tools typically also create jobs by enabling new products that took too much labour previously to be viable on a large scale. It doesn't seem at all implausible that the programming industry employs more people than it would if everything was being written in assembly and took much more effort to write.
So it'll certainly bring change and mass redundancies, but long term mass unemployment seems pretty unlikely at the moment.
'Make money with AI' was talked about, using the more capable GPT4. First of all you have to have a sound business idea with a service behind it that's not easily copied by someone else using GPT. What the AI can do for you (and demos already exist) is spin up the website content, saving a huge amount on coding and artwork costs. You still need to steer it carefully and guide the content. The next stage, coming 'real soon now' will be that workflows and transaction systems can also be spun up by AI. For example, the OpenAI team experimented with giving an in-house Beta of GPT a budget to do things like trade stocks and buy services with, using its immense knowledge model to target eventual profit.
So I'm expecting an explosion of lookalike low value/spammy/fraudulent (but highly plausible looking) sites and businesses to appear overnight once GPT4 and later versions get into their stride.
People with a proper business plan with a real back-end service to offer however, will be able to cut the cost and supercharge the implementation speed of their projects.
Meanwhile I'm trying Bing's AI image generation out, my avatar was AI generated based on text prompt. Bing image generation is overloaded for high-resolution images atm and just hangs , but it created a pixel art one quickly for me. (edited)
Maybe because of what I do etc. but it hasn't come up with a solution to my problems. However, it can annotate code pretty decently, so its not a bad assistant so far especially if your in an area of code you never worked on before and surprise, there are no notes.
I can defo see it being use for media such as reviews etc. as it can bring back some goods stuff
With MS integrating it into bing (Bing GPT via Edge) it cane bring back some really accurate info.
Bard from google will need some learnign but that seems pretty interesting too.
But we shall see, Never say never
They are only going to get better with time at a rate faster than humans will.
I am fascinated what impact it will have, it will affect many knowledge based industries.
Far from causing any threat to jobs yet.
Can you imagine AI that could come up with the font choice and comment functionality on this site - that would be impressive.
The graphics capabilities of Midjourney in only a few months from V4 to V5 at astounding.
V4 your used keywords to help build your pictures, now in V5 you speak like normal telling it what you want and people are using ChatGPT to get it to create the language to input into Midjourney, the pictures it creates are as good as photographs.
You do need lots of training to get it right and I am nowhere at that level but graphics illustrators should be worried also.
The same applies to stories, the few examples I've seen are little more than pulp fiction that no-one would actually pay for. Don't even get me started on the 'music'. For code, yes it does make certain tasks quicker, but you still have to be very specific about what you want and be prepared for really poor quality code that needs a lot of rework to be usable. I'm not expecting the next Skyrim to be written from chatGPT.
GPT4 set the GridView up OK but it couldn't fit it exactly into the LinearLayout, no matter how I phrased each follow up question.
I was impressed for simple answers but for complex, specific issues, I'd say it will do no better than StackOverflow which I think is where I'll have to go to get this answered. In fairness, it gave me an AHA moment in coding to do with using Custom Adapters.
As for people losing jobs, I doubt it. We will adapt and AI will open up options that may not exist right now. Same as horse carriage drivers - where did they disappear? I am myself doing a job that didn't exist when I finished uni, in a industry that didn't even have a name then.