“It will be hard to justify spending twice as much for a human therapist, lawyer or teacher who’s only half as good.” Well ChatGPT flagged the major risk my solicitor missed on my flat purchase. Anyway, AI won’t make humans irrelevant but it could make a lot of irrelevant things irrelevant. - ThreadSky

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himal.bsky.social • 1 day ago

“It will be hard to justify spending twice as much for a human therapist, lawyer or teacher who’s only half as good.”

Well ChatGPT flagged the major risk my solicitor missed on my flat purchase.

Anyway, AI won’t make humans irrelevant but it could make a lot of irrelevant things irrelevant.

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bowsy.co.uk•1 day ago

Once again, I strongly encourage people to read this short story : https://marshallbrain.com/manna1.

Meanwhile, the critical piece of work feels like creating public "moral value" tests that when the AIs are in charge at least they'll be "good people".

bowsy.co.uk•1 day ago

I'm only being semi-facetious with that last part. Things like ChatGPT have a surface veneer of bothsideism but a core of fixed values (slavery is bad but trans rights is *shrug*). There should be laws forcing model makers to use standardised prompts to surface their values.

himal.bsky.social•1 day ago

Read first couple of chapters. Yes it’s the middle managers who will be replaced. Graeber’s question around bullshit jobs has its answer here. They get replaced by AI. But not to free up those who did them. Now they join the worker pool. But then this is where it was heading. Automated exploitation.

himal.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s the economy, stupid. As in the economy itself is stupid.

This is a full blown revolution.

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