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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (59 children)

You mean OpenAI didn't just create a superintelligent artificial brain that will surpass all human ability and knowledge and make our species obsolete?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (54 children)

The funny thing is, last year when ChatGPT was released, people freaked out about the same thing.

Some of it was downright gleeful. Buncha people told me my job (I'm a software developer) was on the chopping block, because ChatGPT could do it all.

Turns out, not so much.

I swear, I think some people really want to see software developers lose their jobs, because they hate what they don't understand, and they don't understand what we do.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (32 children)

Even if ChatGPT gets far in advance of the way it is now in terms of writing code, at the very least you're still going to need people to go over the code as a redundancy. Who is going to trust an AI so much that they will be willing to risk it making coding errors? I think that the job of at the very least understanding how code works will be safe for a very long time, and I don't think ChatGPT will get that advanced for a very long time either, if ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's a fuckin bleak outcome for a lot of people if the job transition goes from \ to \

That's like being an artist and being told your job now is simply to fix the shitty hands Midjourney draws. And your job will only last as long as that remains a problem.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey, I didn't say the future would be bright, just that it will still need people familiar with code for the foreseeable future. At least until the Earth heats up so much that the lack of potable water and the unsurvivable high temperatures destroy civilization.

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