Generative AI Is About To Reset Everything, And, Yes It Will Change Your Life | Forbes

Whether you like it or not, generative AI like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are about to change not only how you work, but how the content you consume is produced. Forbes spoke with a number of leading voices in the AI space to determine both the benefits and the dangers of this next wave of technological innovation, and find out why both tech giants as well as cutting edge startups are racing to grab their share of the market.
0:00 Introduction
1:17 What is generative AI?
2:02 Why Forbes decided to cover this story
2:18 The rise of Open AI
3:11 AI's recent hype
4:30 Stability AI and Stable Diffusion
6:39 Bill Gates thoughts on generative AI
7:53 Where AI can help in workflows
9:56 The issues with AI that need to be resolved
12:04 How do we set safeguards for AI to protect society?
15:14 How will we further incorporate AI in the future?
19:14 The idea of "platform democracy"
20:56 How we used AI for this video
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[@KANJICODER]

The golden age of "video evidence" and "photographic evidence" is soon over. And we didn't even know we were in such a golden age.

[@djomegaminus]

We walked around the world knowing we could trust most everything we saw with our eyes, now people will walk around not being able to trust anything.

[@MadsterV]

@@djomegaminus we already can't. Malicious people already cut out key parts of video to change it's meaning. I don't think that will change much, as it maintains plausible deniability.

[@KeithPhillips]

Polaroids are gonna make a big comeback as the only believable visual evidence 😂

[@DerekAndersonMedia]

@@KeithPhillips you could easily doctor an image and use a prjector set up to expose a polaroid

[@GuaranteedEtern]

100% correct. Audio too. None of that will be useful in court, dispute settlements or insurance claims.

[@NetiNeti25920]

Does Anyone Else Feel Like Everything Has Changed? There is also this feeling that the whole world is holding it's breath. Almost as though we are all waiting for some catalyst or sign or event that puts an end to this feeling of being put on hold. This vague unexplained unease. Everyone is disconnected from each other and there’s no longer any respect or tolerance for each other. No one likes to communicate in person anymore and everyone does things only for money rather than for purpose and meaning. We also have a loneliness epidemic.

[@greenspaceman531]

Karl Marx was right

[@ilgiustiziere4344]

I am experiencing the same but seems that only a few are aware of this.

[@ilgiustiziere4344]

Since 2020, everything is changed.

[@ratonautonomo8963]

One of the best comments I 've read in a long time. Very true, very sad and real. Whatever has to happen , I prefer to see it sooner than later, or not to see it at all.

[@julius43461]

Although things were changing for a while, for myself November 2022 was the most radical shift I have ever experienced. In that November my mom died, and while I was desperately trying to figure out a way to cope, ChatGPT gets released and reawakens my AI obsession that I held since I was a kid. I was always terrified of death, even as a kid, and I spent years coping by believing that emerging technologies might cure aging eventually. But in the last couple of years, I kind of got busy working and having a family, so for the first time ever I totally forgot about my geeky obsessions. Just when I came to terms with my mortality, and the fact that technology just isn't progressing rapidly enough to save us, this thing gets released and totally unsettles me once again.

[@tsunchoo]

I've lived my whole life watching technology devalue everything I learned how to do. It won't be long until this is everyone's experience.. Oh, Brave New World.

[@FinancialLurker]

Already stockin' up some cheap rum or some soma

[@fatherno5721]

it's true. a.i. is already running the show. it's not going to roll out robots to replace us, it's just going to devalue our standard of living and have us working to death 14 hours a day to go home to not a home that you own, but an appartment and a bowl of noodles. slowly working us to death in a world of no families, no friends no society. just a slow lonely death grinding your life away.

[@cocomarineblu993]

It can’t grow plants

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

lol. What kind of jobs were you involved in?

[@thekaiser4333]

Well, learn something proper.

[@jamespowers8826]

It can be used for good, the guy says, and it can be used for bad. In my seven decades on this earth, corporations and governments have consistently made the wrong choice regardless of the technology.

[@mayploy6869]

exactly

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

Have you seen how much world has improved during your lifetime?

[@jamespowers8826]

@@dreadfulbodyguard7288 I'm 72. I cannot say the world has improved much in the last 50 years. And I'm not a luddite. Owned a software company for 20 years and still work full time in IT.

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

@@jamespowers8826 I come from India. I see that my life is significantly better than life of my parents and definitely grandparents. Perhaps the improvement in developing world is more visible than developed world.

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@dreadfulbodyguard7288 Definitely the case that life is improving in the developing world more so than the developed world. America, especially, suffers a lot from the have/have not divide where life for the ultra rich is becoming even better, but for everyone else it's stagnant. Europe isn't quite like that, and Australia is definitely getting better.

[@gr0undrush]

The comment at 17:37 'If an AI can replace my job, then I don't think I'm doing a good job' illustrates the common flaw in people's ability to see the massive potential of AI.

[@catsgotmytongue]

Yes, it can make us all feel inadequate and not special. It will given time, data, and better and better algorithms and computers be able to do everything it can do now better than any of us. There may still be limits, but we haven't reached them yet. AI shows we aren't special snowflakes, and everything we do can be duplicated by algorithms and that upsets people.

[@paulsdomainuk]

Exactly this. When we use AI that is trained on massive amounts of data it is more accurate to view the AI as the best of everyone in the world. If AI is trained with the best art in the world, then it will always be the best concept artist in the world - the average person can never compete and so will be replaced wholesale by this technology.

[@johnjeffreys6440]

How many separate A...I.... individuals can be generated and contained within a system?

[@Kishiru324]

​@@catsgotmytongue We are special snowflakes because no one has lived your life but you. Everything is special but at the same time its not. Plenty of animals can out do us physically but we hold our intellect above them. Okay AI has intellect and machines have physical prowess. But our emotions and abstract thought to create an AI in the first place, is clearly something they won't truly feel just replicate. I had a friend once tell me they were afraid of a future where a Chobit could be real.

[@josef10101010]

Not to mention, he's only looking at it from his own perspective, thinking he's safe. Some employer's might not see it that way, if they can get similar work from AI for much cheaper.

[@EICKonaHIKE]

The only people who are optimistic about it are the handful of people who will vacuum up the money from the millions of jobs lost. That’s all it is, further consolidating money in the hands of a few.😊😊

[@Flipping_myFinds]

My thoughts exactly. People wonder what is the end goal for creating something like this. Easy, money. Who cares about how many people it will affect. Business mentality

[@dannyx498]

survival of the fittest.. eugenics was needed to avoid this suffering, but we'll weed out the useless with AI

[@KungFuChess]

Don't be fooled! AI will crush the value of everything it creates down to a worthless commodity and all the value created will go to the giant tech companies.

[@SilverTear333]

Exactly this. Worse still, they use the very data of the people who created the value in the first place, (eg artists in the case of midjourny) and drain every value out of these people until there is nothing left but a barren wasteland of ai generated content and all the profits flow to a couple tech giants, instead of lots of small creators trying to make ends meet. I despise those that actually defend these corporations. This is going to be a huge disaster.

[@vagrant1943]

As AI software becomes more efficient while PC hardware improves, everyone should eventually be able to run their own personal AI assistant from home.

[@lebovskievgeniew4748]

exactly!

[@ingridgilbert4917]

@@vagrant1943 Not everyone can afford a home let alone a computer in it and so on.

[@MadsterV]

@@ingridgilbert4917 The omniprescence of smartphones was unimaginable a decade ago. Things change.

[@petal213]

As an artist (Who has had their artwork stolen before) these technologies actually make me feel even less comfortable posting any of my art online

[@Irrazzo]

magine a world where significant parts of the digital native population decides to collectively put their lives off the internet again. Music and bookstores and culture venues and so on pop up back into life, and news spread from mouth to mouth. That actually sounds a bit more interesting than where we currently seem to be headed.

[@petal213]

You are reading my mind! You’re not an ai are you, 😂

[@Irrazzo]

@@petal213 No, just old 😅

[@eyoo369]

@@Irrazzo Study the Luddites during the industrial revolution and see how well it ended for them

[@Irrazzo]

@@eyoo369 Yes, my first thought was actually closer to that, about the Butlerian Jihad. That the uneasy feeling that artists right now may feel about generative AI companies seeming to ... drink their milkshake ... is perhaps a glimpse into how the story of those future Neo-Luddites in the Dune universe might have begun. So, I wondered in which scenario people turn Luddite out of necessity rather than ideology. But then, distraction with idle nostalgia seemed more pleasant.

[@marywimmer5018]

That feeling you have while watching this is our collective uneasiness at witnessing the birth of something that could destroy us forever and being powerless to stop it

[@DLCS-2]

Not necessarily

[@ihl0700677525]

Nope. I find this AI/ML revolution quite exciting, something that will greatly beneficial to me personally and to us all.

[@snaphaan5049]

It's suppose to replace you. That's why the overpopulation narrative is pushed so much. It's not a conspiracy, it's more like man's psyche trying to deal with his own extinction.

[@thekittenfreakify]

I personally find it depressing. Makes me not want to even try to learn new things

[@demetronix]

I am much more afraid that we will destroy ourself with this technology than the technology itself. I just don't think we humans and citizens and our political systems are ready. The tech itself is not dangerous by itself.

[@friktermind]

These interviewees seem to be very disturbed despite what they say. People will become confused, feel useless, this will just deepen the collective depression of uselessness we already feel.

[@ClellBiggs]

I simply can't understand how people can't see how devastating this is likely going to be.

[@brushstroke3733]

Most people aren't very good at extrapolating out the implications of anything. It's sad that people don't see how destructive AI will be. Skynet can't be stopped, apparently.

[@jasonmarcus1683]

Best case scenario for me personally... I no longer have to work, but can still strive to improve myself in ways that I actually want to and have loads of free time for hobbies. Worse case scenario is difficult to predict but I'd imagine it could be pretty much 1984 on steroids.

[@patrickbateman1660]

Innovation is never bad. People said this about cars, computers, people even complained when pencils were invented

[@brushstroke3733]

@@patrickbateman1660 Tell that to the Neanderthals. Or heck, even the Native Americans.

[@frazyfrog]

oh they see lol but capitalism doesnt care. It will leech every drop of resource till the world end

[@sunla]

This is just going to widen the gap between us common folk and billionaires and mega corporations. And it does so in unethical ways that impede on our rights. I love automation. I love computers, and digital tools. But until AI can be trained only ethically, and greed isn't incentivized... As long as the implications of this as a whole are dystopian, I just can't get behind it. AI will be used to aggressively milk consumers and keep the masses subdued. We are hurdling toward a horrible future. It's hard to even enjoy things when the implications make me feel nauseated.

[@frazyfrog]

we are not common ! The working class is exceptional ! WE MAKE THE WORLD WORK.

[@AleOnYouTube]

Do you mean increasing the gap by providing free and powerful tools for free in exchange of data collection? Bro they’re doing it since the birth of the first computer.

[@SputnikCrisis]

Yeahhh all of the most populated countries already look like their own Black Mirror episodes so more technology without societal corrections will just feed the already present dystopias. It’s not the technologies though, it’s what we’ve done.

[@sunla]

@@AleOnKZbin yeah that was the spark, but this is a raging fire. It's a little bit different.

[@zane62135]

It should at least be made open source, so everyone has access to it. OpenAI is already private, their code is private, and it's been handed over to mega corporations and the government.

[@user-tb5ns7hc5i]

80% of the workforce is going to be unemployed and sitting on basic minimum salary a lot quicker than most think. Massive global changes coming fast.

[@lebovskievgeniew4748]

that was the goal of all this

[@Eserr7856]

With 10% of people worldwide struggling with hunger, I hope A.I. helps bring justice, freedom, and equality to every human being in earth

[@darksidegryphon5393]

You're right, apart from the UBI part, there will be no UBI.

[@user-tb5ns7hc5i]

@@darksidegryphon5393 yes there will, until it’s no longer needed.

[@kornel8421]

“If A.I. can replace my job then i’m not doing a good job.” - Only people full of themselves say things like that. People might think A.I. will evolve slowly, but I think it will evolve rapidly.

[@kjkj4725]

Yeah - they assume they have at least 20 more years before AI will advance enough to replace them… In reality AI is developing exponentially and they have max 5 years, and during this time they will be rapidly losing leverage on job market as well as their jobs will become less and less valuable. If they won’t lose their jobs - they will give them up as there won’t be any money anyway.

[@aureliusmarcusantoninus3441]

@@plumbingphase true cheddar

[@reellezahl]

@@plumbingphase lol, AI plumbers with robotic buttcracks are being built as we speak 😉

[@brianv2871]

I think it was a poor choice of words. A better statement might have been "If an AI can replace my job, then i haven't continued to grow in my role.". An example might be a writer.. rather than spending effort on the writing, put your effort into the creativity and use the AI to do the tedious work of formatting and editing and providing suggestions, etc. That said, there are definitely jobs that will go away with AI, but the same thing has happened with every advancement in history. When the Internet took off, there were cries from many people about how bad it was for the world "everyone can sit at home creating bombs", etc. Every technology has negatives, but the vast possibilities are equally interesting.

[@frozzennflame]

Anyone else think trusting an AI to accurately predict or present public opinion could be incredibly dangerous?

[@Window4503]

AI is nothing more than an amplification of human thoughts. I find it incredible that on one hand people get upset if you are certain about something but on the other hand put all of their trust in a technology built and inherently biased by humans to be certain about everything.

[@ihl0700677525]

Honestly, it is no worse than trusting politicians, priests, lawyers, doctors, scientists, or whoever/whatever else. Anyone and everyone should be *free* to trust whoever and whatever they want.

[@petral3745]

no, just you, but your tone seems quite affirmative

[@TheSunflowerGalaxy]

@frozzennflame Wait until there's a completely AI generated politician that runs for presidency--and we won't be able to tell it's an AI.

[@epicchannel4724]

That's not happening atm and they're making sure that it doesn't. Chatgpt for example has humans changing what it can output and as a result creating political and cultural bias.

[@42fontenator]

Notice how "money" is ALWAYS the #1concern for absolutely anything and just questioning that seems to short-circuit people's brains?

[@bigglyguy8429]

Money is just the most exchangeable commodity (or used to be, before royalty and governments messed with it). It's a fantastic system, when left alone.

[@koumorichinpo4326]

@@bigglyguy8429 it HAS been left alone, this is what free market has done. its been an abject failure.

[@pmejia727]

“If ai can replace my job then i’m not doing a good job.” That’s today, when a.i. is a baby. 5 years ago no one though’t it’d be making art. Today illustrators (even the best ones) are at a real risk. It’s not the current state of programs that’s frightening; it’s the fact that they learn so fast.

[@bigglyguy8429]

To me the 2 scary parts are 1. Human elites control this, and 2. mass production of generalized robots is easy to do.

[@TheCephalus]

you learn to use Ai to augment yourself and do your job better and AI will not steal your job.

[@pmejia727]

@@TheCephalus It will be capable of doing everything a human does but better, faster, and cheaper. As soon as your clients have access to this program there will simply be no reason to hire you. That is assuming you own the business.If you are an employee you will be replaced much sooner.

[@TheCephalus]

@@pmejia727 no AI will not steal your job, people like me that are using AI will steal your job, so be smart and use it too

[@pmejia727]

@@TheCephalus what is your job?

[@jeannettel4759]

We barely know what we are doing. This is terrifying.

[@adestarr5099]

welcome to the human race where we just ask ourselves "can we do it" rather than "should we do it"

[@thebicycleman8062]

everybody is sooooo overly dramatic - western people lack of religion and faith and spirituality leaves them as helpless paranoid creatures like insetcs who scatters when the garden sprinklers come on and everybody is in panic - The price of being super materialistic is all western world constantly lives in paranoid fear - they always taalk of dystopia, all their movies are dark - apocolypse - it is truly the curse of the west to live without the gift of peace of mind - meanwhile in the middle east everybody smokin shisha till the age of 90 chillin - not a care in the world, have about 15 kids, always around family, gatherin everyday, music, dancing and drinkin alot of tea! Which one would you choose i kno for damn sure i wouldnt choose to live as a paranoid restless soul like the west - just read all the comments below, you'l see what i mean

[@edz8659]

Speak for yourself

[@Bizarro69]

Why's it terrifying? Very weird irrational fear.

[@jwoods9659]

Nerds are running things and that is not the natural order.

[@videoket]

AI has a lot of potential, but I find some of the tech creators’ arrogance to be saddening. I don’t think they’ve really considered the implications of unleashing this technology wholesale into all aspects of society. I think they also underestimate the capabilities of bad actors. Is it because they’re pursuing the bottom line? I dunno. But I don’t think they are nearly as cautious as they ought to be.

[@alex.hidalgo]

I like to think a majority of people are invigorated and excited for some genuine momentum that moves society. Because right now we are in a state with a endless soft “problems” to solve that we never could entertain before, absent access to tools such as this. People are both scared and excited because this innovation will push us to adapt very quickly to any and all of the implications that begin cascading throughout our economy the next 2 years especially. This finally feels like that moment, it was almost like a light switch with apps already integrating and interacting with each other leveraging AI. Feels like we have just lifted everyone’s ability to process information quicker with a tool that we do not have a reference point for. I feel fortunate to have grown up ushering in dial up into broadband. The internet was so poppin back then and changing so quickly, our older generations really had to wait for it to come to them. We’re in that spot now again.

[@jaconova]

@@alex.hidalgo Lol the plandemic was such a success that now you think techno tools are here to help us? So naive it hurts...

[@jaconova]

The creators are being paid by people who know very well they can slave entire populations if not entire humanity with it. Example given: the plandemic.

[@alex.hidalgo]

@@jaconova you are so bent on thinking about the negative there is no light in between us for an actual convo. But I can understand your concerns. Mine are more balanced though

[@mattkissmyasstyrants8676]

I think AI is in the chat.. on all the big platforms, and right here in this thread.

[@basicbutter]

I'm a truck driver, and I honestly thought I'd get btfo'd by Ai before artists would.

[@AustinThomasFilms]

I actually think jobs like yours, and manual labor jobs, will be some of the safest until AI has hands or a body

[@ronaldinojikri5682]

Plumbing seems to be a safe job

[@FoOtFoOt542]

It’s really getting to the point where people don’t even have to use their brains anymore. What could go wrong?

[@joelmaenpaa1100]

Absolutely nothing... Especially if we don't fix the issues with it's bias

[@profriday]

If you don’t use your brain, you'll lose it.

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

Don't use their brains anymore, and the AI that's doing their old jobs is all owned by a few companies.

[@eutytoalba]

Forget AI, we're already at the point where "thinking for yourself" and "doing your own research" are literally being prosecuted as criminal. I think AI is great because it outperforms the academic oligarchs of knowledge and puts the power of such high learning in the hands of the governed. I for one am thrilled about this tumultuous social overhaul; IMO it's comparable to when literacy first started to become commonplace-and shackling AI with filters is comparable to past centuries of desperate slaveholders (internationally) suppressing literacy in order to maintain social control & economic status quo. If AI can teach students new skills better than conventional teachers can, it is ACTIVELY HARMFUL to hold students back in conventional learning institutions just so that human teachers don't have to adapt to new personal economic strategies possibly with less ENTIRELY SELFISH social prestige. 🤯

[@QwertyNPC]

I don't get Gates point here. If generative ai can do anything better and more efficiently then what incentive is there for a human being to actually learn anything if the effect of that won't ever emerge ? The developing brain needs to be stimulated and right now we understand that well enough. This is why children don't use calculators in the early stage. This in fact helps them develop and increases their chances on the global market. Now we're at the brink of a time where this will no longer be true. The ability to think may become greatly devalued.

[@ronaldinojikri5682]

Clearly Gates isn’t that smart or he hates humans and actually wants machines to take over.

[@hdjwkrbrnflfnfbrjrmd]

Do you stop doing things others are better at then you, if no, then how is that any different?

[@QwertyNPC]

@@hdjwkrbrnflfnfbrjrmd If others are a lot better at what I do for a living then yeah - I'll stop because the market forces me to stop. If a piece of software can write essays, solve problems - do things a lot better than the average Joe then the average Joe is obsolete because no one will pay for Joe's skills. If skills are devalued then people stop pursuing getting skills and education.

[@hdjwkrbrnflfnfbrjrmd]

@@QwertyNPC are you a top expert in your field

[@QwertyNPC]

@@hdjwkrbrnflfnfbrjrmd Your mistake is thinking this situation is like a human to human case. It's not. AI is dirt cheap, doesn't need vacation and doesn't have attitudes. If it gets to human autonomy levels then I have no doubt it will push a lot of people out - because businesses will prefer the easier and cheaper option and this is what I meant when I wrote that the market will force me to stop.

[@mkartmkart6335]

I feel the need to point out that if you give calulators to children too early, they will never learn the logic behind multiplication. And big tech will guide our thoughts in a learned dogmatic way. We must not give away every processual learning to dead matter.

[@fenristhewolfslair3993]

Well said!

[@promptgods]

The calculator makes learn multiplication useless just like having a car makes knowing how to ride a horse useless. Sure if society falls and we are in a dystopia, you won't know how to ride a horse or work out 15×34 but would you really care at that point?

[@mkartmkart6335]

@@promptgods Yes, thats the temptedness of it. It simplifies and make useless the very ability of thinking. I dont know if that's a good thing in evolusion of human being...

[@promptgods]

@@mkartmkart6335 It allows a higher level of thinking beyond basic creative labor. Ideas and mental power will be the new currency because there is no barrier to manifesting your creation. This is the beginning of our acceleration towards God hood 🙏🏽

[@mkartmkart6335]

@@promptgods I Hope and Pray you are right :)

[@WattWireNet]

An old skill now becomes more important than ever: knowing what questions to ask.

[@brushstroke3733]

Maybe. But it might not be long before the most intelligent question we could ask is what question AI would ask itself? 🥺🤷‍♂️

[@blawler]

​@@brushstroke3733 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@Cmax3891]

its so nice to see how welcoming people are to their own doom

[@sixzlahz4530]

Humans have been doing that forever

[@YOUARESOFT.]

isnt it inevitable though? i mean reaching higher and faster is what made us so comfortable, i see no other way around it

[@archvaldor]

I, for one, welcome our AI overlords.

[@petral3745]

oh hai human, nice weather today amirite. I agree with you. Every seems to be going nuts. We should schedule a zoom meeting the one of us who are still intact

[@kiavaxxaskew]

It's not our fault. It's always been the ruling class that caused this. You have idea that even the idea of the human being has been altered.

[@timothy6966]

Also watch the next video in this series: “The future of humanity”. Total length: 2 minutes.

[@Robert-ry2mr]

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

[@balijosu]

They should.

[@terriblefrosting]

Money doesn't care about whether or not someone is doing a good job, it only cares if the job is being done "good enough", and if "good enough" can be achieved without a human component, then that is what money will do. This is going to cause societal trouble like the techies cannot possibly imagine from their blinkered places of privilege.

[@koumorichinpo4326]

the only solution is violence, they are robbing us of freedom, dignity and power

[@brianv2871]

it applies to humans already... i once had a manager who was hiring and when i told them we wouldn't get someone great for that amount of money they were offering, they said "they don't have to be great, just good enough" 😔

[@iveyhealth2266]

I honestly believe that AI won't try to hurt us on purpose, no more than we actually try to hurt the bugs that smash against our windshields while driving. AI I believe, will do to humans what humans have done to plants, animals and insects. It will overpower humans, and do with humans what it chooses. Imagine bots as tall as trees, as strong as 100 horses, smarter than all humans combined, and as fast as a stealth bomber. 💯

[@oliverranderson9292]

If companies like meta abuse the the use of our personal data imagine what wpuld do with AI software

[@its_ben_carter]

They have been of it the whole time in a way really I feels like

[@Coach-Daisy]

they're not scared bud! in fact globalism is here to stay.

[@robbie3877]

AI isn't going to divulge your information to people using AI. And algorithms long collected your personal information, which is why Facebook and Google and other tech companies make money allowing as to use the internet. Without that fact the internet would not be free. So yeah that was the case a long, long time ago. Long before GPT.

[@jaconova]

@@robbie3877 AI will work in tandem with government security/agenda. Why do you think the plandemic was deployed? Yep, to further stablish the basis of a surveillance State.

[@jjjvvv123]

@@robbie3877 people would rather pay for the internet than give away data, and what are you talking about internet being free? It costs monthly fees everywhere what in the world are you talking about

[@patrickodea6500]

This is going to destroy imagination and creativity. If you can just type what you're thinking and AI can create it for you, you don't develop skill from the work, from the attempts and failures to reach your goal. This will cripple people

[@ansalem12]

How do you figure people will become less imaginative if they're spending all their time imagining things into existence? Seems to me any time people do a thing a bunch they tend to get better at it not worse.

[@barbecueman6352]

Well Socrates said the same thing about books dumbing people down for not committing things to memory. This will be something similar

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

@@barbecueman6352 I kind of think us modern people just might be dumber than the ancients, we're just massively augmented compared to them

[@leilaniaileenlove]

It's not about money it's about our fate

[@ma2i485]

And the fate is human intelligence will be surpassed by artificial intelligence because we already live in a world that's artificial from financial markets to media, culture and entertainment. AI isn't some magical things its decades of technological advancements coupled with societal - economic changes.

[@Kokorocodon]

Who knew entering the singularity would be this scary.

[@kuzakiv3095]

@@Kokorocodon we're not entering singularity tho

[@Kokorocodon]

@@kuzakiv3095 Ready to hear your arguments.

[@user-mp3eh1vb9w]

@@Kokorocodon because singularity introduces the unknown to us. Anything unknown is always the subject of fear.

[@shinedelanoire7515]

There's a finite pool of human attention. Every single image / song / animation created by the A.I. draws from that one finite global pool of attention. The attention pool is expanding, but the expansion rate is nowhere near as fast as the expansion of A.I.-generated art. Every single A.I. piece of art on a cover of a magazine means it wasn't a human's artwork that was selected for said cover. Even if you leave all ethical considerations aside, the fact is jobs and people are already being displaced from the global attention pool since the output of high-quality virtual products will now start increasing exponentially.

[@derp195]

Well considering how terrible algorithms have been for the world, I’m pretty sure this will be a disaster.

[@marktwain368]

The entire Russian nuclear arsenal is controlled by a 1950s-era computer network. One glitch and our future is gone. Add AI and it goes sooner.

[@py_a_thon]

Yeah, all those terrible algos that optimize the distribution and logistics of agriculture transportation(and optimization) is so terrible. Ethiopia hasn't even had a famine recently.

[@derp195]

@@py_a_thon Wow good job, you pointed out a benefit of something, therefore it must be a net positive!

[@py_a_thon]

@@derp195 Well then quantify the game as a negative sum, positive sum, or zero sum form. The world, right now, is literally better than the day you were born. In the macro scale form. Maybe something about your life is unpleasant, yet the world at large is significantly better than even 30 years ago. And beyond that, the quality of life changes are even more rapid and exponential. I should have been killed by a lion or malnutrition or something. Yet here I am, in a human hyperreality with access to many foods in many ways. And lions may as well be expensive meat. Any idea which online retailer I should contact to buy lion steaks?

[@derp195]

@@py_a_thon lol no, I can hardly think of anything I would be less interested in doing right now than having a pointless and lengthy internet debate with someone who is unlikely to be interested in considering my point. Have a good one.

[@jonlevert]

this'll decimate many, many jobs for art directors, illustrators, designers, etc.... corporations would 110% pay an AI a fraction of the cost rather than hire a more expensive, potentially difficult human

[@simplyojphotosnshop]

Generative AI is both exciting in terms of what it can do but also terrifying because of misuse.

[@jfish032]

Just like all radical new technology.

[@yumyumdonuts1010]

A.I. was created to be misused

[@cidershack2564]

So we are going to create a completely soulless Society. Sounds lovely.

[@spencervance8484]

We already have a soulless society

[@patrickbateman1660]

You are a minimum 60 years late unless you were literally born yesterday

[@jt6294]

If unregulated, generative AI will undermine economic ecosystems and collapse multiple industries. This is not alarmist fear-mongering, it's unfortunately the reality. Anyone with a basic understanding of economics understands this.

[@AustinThomasFilms]

I agree, but whenever I mention this to people, no one seems to care. What happens when we automate 90% of the US workforce in a short timeframe? What's the federal government response going to be?

[@Baleur]

2:30 thats simply not true. A "General AI" does not have to be, or may never be, "concious" or self-aware. General AI simply means it can do anything you ask, and will behave as a person. Emulating a person isnt the same as BEING a person.

[@JaxWylds]

17:35 "If the AI can replace my work, then I don't think I'm doing a good job."

[@hillehai]

These people are like overgrown children - they have no understanding of how the real world works.

[@jaconova]

None of us are prepared, because it is not natural to rig, self sabotage human activity with the use of AI and machines.

[@josueramirez7247]

Right, that doesn’t mean he’s not doing a good job. That just means that the AI has gotten much more improved.

[@infinite1483]

Can't wait to live Blade Runner without the cool aesthethics

[@ClassWarVeteran]

This beta version sucks

[@Yuvraj.]

The aesthetics are there too, you just gotta go to the right parts of the world.

[@margaretenoha5394]

Does anyone think this is going to end well for humanity? I mean really?

[@lis7742]

Yes.

[@shasmi93]

Yes it will probably be what finally leads to nuclear war. Which will get our population numbers under control finally. So yes, it will be good.

[@klappapa]

@@lis7742 no, the end will be fucked up

[@LockheedMartinEnjoyer]

The answer is Yes, No, and everything in between.

[@Finder76]

It’s a singularity, the answer is both yes and no.

[@jeffo881]

59 years old, in my lifetime we went from PONG to this,

[@codegnomic2329]

The plan goes like this: The AI will be the decision maker that allocates resources in order to make things run as efficiently as possible. It will be connected to the social credit system which will determine your allotment of carbon, which ties in to resource allocation. Privacy will give way to surveillance under the guise of this push towards sustainability, ie efficiency. The AI needs eyes and ears, so it will use the IoT to do so, as well as the CBDCs that will be implemented. Freedom will give way to a padded prison of safe sustainability. Humans will be subjugated by the elite class of people who control the software. The plan is being discussed openly by the world leaders. If you don't want to live in a dystopian world where every decision is monitored and controlled under the guise of sustainability, efficiency, and equity, then say something.

[@user-mp3eh1vb9w]

Privacy isn't that big of a deal especially in today's world. You already got billions of people using social media sharing their daily lives on the internet for everyone to see.

[@zane62135]

Yep. This is all headed to an obvious destination, and that is AI being the central government which runs humanity like an optimization algorithm.

[@kiavaxxaskew]

​@@user-mp3eh1vb9w missing the point Japan, sir.

[@kiavaxxaskew]

​@Gold Tau Christianity has been debilitated for a while now. Let the dying religion rest, literally FOR GOD'S SAKE.

[@user-mp3eh1vb9w]

@@zane62135 So a technocratic civilization. Look here, if AI can make us advance, energy consumption wouldn't be an issue. If AI can helps us colonize the stars, it would enable us to build a megastructure like a dyson sphere. With that invention, energy availability would become practically unlimited.

[@BrianMartensOfficial]

Weird Al can claim fair use because his parodies are transformative and don't severely impact the business of the original creator. Stable Diffusion may be transformative, but as it gets better it will be an absolute train wreck for the businesses of the creators of the digital artwork used to train it, many of whom do not earn all that much to begin with. How can that be "fair use"?

[@robbie3877]

It used? It's simply following prompts so if someone wants it to imitate already existing art it will. It can create original art but it's up to the user to use AI fairly, it isn't up to the neural network itself. It's doing what people are asking it to do. It isn't using the copyrighted art. People are, technically, because the AI is an extension of their intent. It's gathering the information and data but it's being asked to. Get my point? It's the people prompting it that are using the AI to do that. It isn't the will or intent of AI causing these copyright breaches. That's really the responsibility of the user, for using the neural network that way. And what do you consider original art? Clearly every artist uses commonly used and commonly known images from their environment, and what they see. Nothing is truly original. If it's using certain images in an original way, is that copyright? It's like saying that a musician can copyright another musician because they used the same musical notes. All music art is the same notes used in a different pattern and images or visual art isn't very different. So what's fair use? Nobody can copyright the image of cat, for example. A cat is a common image. So is the AI creating the image of a cat in exactly the same way as another human artist has, for example, or is it putting an original spin on it? That latter is a very different thing. And that's why there are many different artistic impressions of cats. Now some might have similarities, among them but are they exactly identical? That's the question. If they are it is copyright. Yes. If not then it's not. Music copyright works in exactly the same way. The musical pattern or vocals or lyrics in general must be very close to the same to be a copyright breach. It can't just be an original product that's similar and be deemed a breach of copyright. That's not copyright. Since the AI is creating so many images of course there will be similarly produced human generated art that compares to AI generated art but how many are exactly identical?

[@BrianMartensOfficial]

@@robbie3877 I should have been more specific. I meant 'used' referring to the images used to train the model.

[@robbie3877]

@@BrianMartensOfficial Okay but then let me put it this way and add to that point, that if the AI generative transformer isn't recreating exact or very closely similar art to other artists is that the same as copying work? That's my point. As with any art different original creations are never going to be 100% original because certain images and patterns and shapes or styles are used in all artwork. What art is 100% original? In copyright legal cases that's what the court decides, if it's fair use and simply a coincidence due to the fact that nothing in art can be truly 100% original. If the AI is using general images and patterns and shapes, styles it learns, that's exactly what human creators of art do too, so can it really be called a copyright breach if the art it generates is relatively original? There are some cases where the art might be so similar or so identical to another original creations that it might be called a copyright breach. Yes and in those cases a human artist would have a case. But a human artist cannot claim copyright on general images, shapes and patterns or styles that everyone uses, if the art in question is more original than identical to another work of art. Because that's just how art works. It's a reconfiguration of generally used images, shapes and patterns or styles. The AI is trained on data of those templates but is the GPT recreating other artists work in a very identical or exactly identical way or is it creating art that is mostly or relatively original? That's the question. Really, the AI is generating outputs, as visual, audio or text based work much the same way the human brain does. By processing objects and patterns it sees and learns from its external environment and so in that sense the same kind of framework for copyright laws applies. That's how I see it anyway. If it was doing something fundamentally different to the human brain well then there might be an argument that the AI has an unfair advantage but does it? The only advantage it has is time. It can generate art or creative pieces at a much faster rate. But then again it does it less intuitively at this point. So in a way it's disadvantaged. For example, AI is very poor at generating fingers and other kinds of intricate structures, for that reason.

[@thedoctor5478]

@@BrianMartensOfficial Doesn't a human artist train his brain's neural network on copyrighted materials?

[@orhanmekic9292]

We all learn by studying work done by others. AI is not so different. The only difference is that AI now learns faster and the learned knowledge can be multiplied billion times. In 10 years AI will be in all fields in 20 years most of the jobs we have today will be gone bringing abundance to the world like never before, simultaneously bringing down current financial system that focuses on infinite growth, and this is a good thing as hopefully it will free up humanity to focus on what is important in the long run.

[@ingridgilbert4917]

I am an artist whose livelihood is under threat but I worry more about the AI being used in drone weapons. When there is no human cost for war (on your side) what will stop governments from doing really bad things (already happening)?

[@AUniqueHandleName444]

Totally. This worries me as well. We need to vigilently guard arms from here on out.

[@Auticusx]

"If the AI can replace my job, then I don't think I'm doing a good job". My dude. In 3-5 years, AI will be able to write most of the CRUD code that tech engineers write today. It will be able to do so in minutes. No human can perform that fast no matter how good they are. Its an over inflation of your ego if you think that you can outperform a trained AI. The whole reason Microsoft and Google are pouring BILLIONS into this - which requires investor approval - is to get a sizeable ROI. The ROI is going to come from the severance of knowledge work salaries. The savings from not having to hire engineers any longer is the holy grail of tech executives. You can think you are the most special awesome super powerful developer on the planet - most software guys I've worked with over 30 years think that they are this - and your job is still in jeopardy if not outright made extinct in the next 3-5 years. By 2030 there will be little need for knowledge workers of any kind barring extreme specialists to help run the machines and in pocket areas that may not have the capital to subscribe to microsoft/google's machine.

[@cosmicllama6910]

Nothing grinds my gears like the people claiming that automation will "create as many jobs as it removes." The idea is oxymoronic.

[@Auticusx]

@@cosmicllama6910 agreed. They aren't pouring BILLIONS into this to create jobs. They are pouring BILLIONS into this to remove jobs and cut costs.

[@reellezahl]

Your comment is so underrated/under-appreciated, @Auticusx!

[@becca-dn4vs]

True that. Not to mention, chatgpt can already write code in dozens of programming languages unlike a human. It can think of a solution or at least come up with a base to work on even for the most complex of problems in software development. That alone beats us mere humans already.

[@user-kc2gi7eq1y]

It's worth pointing out that, just recently, a copyright on a recently published comic was redacted by the US copyright office, when it was discovered that the art that was used in the comic had been AI generated. Specifically, all the text in the comic (meaning, the story itself) remains under copyright and what was excluded was specifically the AI-generated imagery.

[@rottendirty]

meaning the comic lives on?

[@leebass7]

@@rottendirty meaning all the art in the comic is not under copyright, so anyone can use that art and just put their own text on it sell it if they want

[@gregvisioninfosoft]

But that doesnt make sense. As it was a human using the AI tool to create the art. The inanimate computer did not create the art fully by itself, it required an input grammer or syntax to create the output.

[@ChatGPT1111]

I smell bogus information.

[@nickgreen2905]

Good, rights are for humans not some machine.

[@streamer77777]

If AI can replace my work than I don't think I am doing a good job ? seriously ? lol Given time we can build AI which will eventually replace all our jobs, no matter how good we are at it.

[@mimikyu_]

exactly, because AI learns from all the best works online and has the ability to retain memory without forgetting anything. It can do what we physically as humans cannot do. AI will replace us and OBVIOUSLY be better than us. So its unfair to compare ourself to this super machine. That statement he said made me so angry.

[@Francinefearles]

Such hubris.

[@donedeal725]

This is heading towards totalitarianism. It's inevitable at this point. I'm really worried about the future of humanity.

[@krisrattus8707]

What scares me the most is the guys who think that they are smart enough to control things.

[@petral3745]

what scares me most is guys who think they know who the smart guys are. those are the really smart guys amirite

[@jamesaritchie1]

They are smart enough. You are not.

[@krisrattus8707]

Haha, the point was that nobody is smart enough to know what is best for everyone.

[@rickallen9099]

This is way too positive on AI. And doesn't consider the negative implications enough. Screw this fluff piece.

[@rackfocus8299]

Any issues with ai models are bugs that can be updated in minutes. Humans are flawed and take years to change (if at all.)

[@oxydoxxo]

@@rackfocus8299 you say that like it means anything

[@jamesaritchie1]

Grow up.

[@IoannisNousias]

Key word: “moderation” Governments and corporations are salivating over this.

[@dylan_curious]

Great comment! You provide a comprehensive overview of OpenAI and its history, as well as the current state and potential of generative AI. It's interesting to note the shift from non-profit to for-profit, and the impact of Microsoft's investment in the company. You also touch on the potential of AI in various fields, from education to healthcare, and the challenges that come with it, such as biases. Overall, a very informative and thought-provoking comment!

[@josepablolunasanchez1283]

In the end the only way to be in contact with reality will be to be offline. Not in internet anymore.

[@jamesaritchie1]

This is ALL reality.

[@mkartmkart6335]

In the long run, these applications dont make us creators, but they take away the very ability to create !

[@sonar3108]

What goes around comes around. Eventually, those who are working to destroy the livelihoods of others (to the point of stealing their work) will see their own livelihoods destroyed.

[@softan]

It's a nice thought but unfortunetly karma isn't real.

[@sonar3108]

@@softan That remains to be seen. Coders whose work was stolen are already upset about this, so I'm pretty sure it's real. Hopefully, these coders can come up with solutions.

[@neo69121]

hahahah youre so lost but thats ok

[@ihavetubes]

@@softan You do enough bad things, and eventually the cops come looking.

[@sonar3108]

Agreed. And these corporate thieves have no moral high ground and deserve zero protections.

[@AfroGaz71]

Well I'm truly shocked that Bill Gates, the co founder and largest shareholder of Microsoft who are in partnership with openAI, endorses AI. Well colour me surprised!

[@patrickbateman1660]

Yeh pretty pointless interview there "man who owns 1/3 of a company says the company is good!"

[@petral3745]

color you suprised how, I can color you blue, but surprised, I couldn't give a fudge, don't get me wrong, just my 0.05 cents

[@NegatingSilence]

I am not optimistic about any of this at all. But I would like to say that this video was well-edited, clean, and the B-roll was nice.

[@eyobedw1]

That's because AI edited the video, I'm also impressed

[@Tiger-kq5rm]

@@eyobedw1 😅

[@leakyabstraction]

The usefulness of AI directly correlates with how much data it exploits from people who put work into creating that data, so, some form of compensation will undoubtedly be required, especially if it ends up replacing jobs.

[@abercrombieuser12345]

AI doesn't exploit data any more than a human artist who gets inspired by other people work and they create their own work based on that inspiration (or exploitation in your eyes)

[@Smurfis]

@@abercrombieuser12345This is simply not correct, it uses data online and other peoples case studies and discussions to learn and therefore it’s literal plagiarism just re wrote into its own words.

[@AFuller2020]

On a Windoz platform? If MS built a car would you drive it? It's like putting Kobe steak on a saltine, it just won't work.

[@gr0undrush]

@@Smurfis just like art students at university use other peoples art, case studies and discussions to learn, before creating their own art based on those influences 🤔

[@CrazyAssDrumma]

not necessarily, and not forever either

[@wanyekest6969]

It's going to replace a lot of jobs as corporations see it as the cheaper alternative, rather than paying someones salary.

[@clairehappel7810]

Some will, but AI is inherently flawed. It will be a step back if they do so.

[@jasonbrown7330]

The tipping point before that actually takes place remember you read it here I am predicting the system will kill itself before it gets very far because it's not possible to survive with just survival in mind contrary to what you might think there's a lot more to that

[@sahulianhooligan7046]

They terker jerbs!! They Terrrk Kerr Jerrbs!!

[@klappapa]

Capitalism bro, bosses are not obligated to pay your salary

[@cesar4729]

That's not how it works. Corporations are corporations because they can pay great salaries and afford great resources to do great things. When those resources become accessible at low cost, the big companies will have to face the democratization of their service. You can't hog high-efficiency, publicly accessible technology.

[@-TheOracle-]

Man invented the wheel. The wheel will eventually run over the man.

[@kocerarif]

High tech companies should be supported but should never be given the power to shape the future of humanity. Otherwise, we will most probably be living in doomed dystopia as soon as possible.

[@patrickbateman1660]

Yeh missed that boat mate. They have been doing this since the start of the industrial revolution

[@neilgower2558]

The more I look at AI more I think we need to go back to a simple way of life with Mother Earth. We are loosing are humanity

[@j.mashalevin]

We are sacrificing humanity for few bucks. Agree with you.

[@BleaktaBright]

This is the very definition of " work yourself out of a job". I must say, with a computer chip in our brains, we will never know if the thoughts are truly our own or that of A.I. Existential crisis on a global level anyone?

[@skywalker7778]

We are witnessing our own extinction thinking it will still take years...

[@epicswirl]

I wish AI didn’t become mainstream. These types of AI have been a thing for years. These new generative language models aren’t able to replace software engineers and won’t for many years. This is because even a prompt is still telling a computer what to do. Right now this tech has no real brain it just predicts words. This is not to say much farther in the future AI won’t get better, it will. But even then we’ll still be telling it detailed descriptions of what we want. This is called programming.

[@flickwtchr]

You just really have no idea what you are talking about, nor do the programmers of these LLMs that have zero idea what's going on inside the "black box" relative to the observed emergent properties that have made these models so unexpectedly powerful.

[@epicswirl]

@@flickwtchr Actually I do. I am beyond qualified and am a senior SWE. I literally said that the model knows nothing. Yes there are emergent properties but that doesn’t mean they are powerful bc we don’t know how to control them or even understand the code they write yet. Chat gpt is a dumbed down language model that can’t discern right and wrong. Once we’ve paired generative AI and quantum computing we will be able to give the AI the power to know right from wrong. Emergent properties are more of a quirk we don’t understand but doesn’t make the AI “powerful” for us at all. Chat gpt has safeguards for this anyway. The main point is that we will always need to prompt ai thoroughly to get what we need. That’s called programming.

[@SethOmegaful]

The thing is: How do you control this? How can we expect that openAI is the only capable company to deliver an AI with this level of quality? Yeah, great, go regulate openAI. Tomorrow, an equally capable group of malicious people develop their own AI to do anything they want. How do you control this?

[@mikebonadio]

You mitigate with tech that is the opposite of AI (blockchain/crypto) and find other ways to mitigate. Also learning to leverage it before it leverages you.

[@ronaldinojikri5682]

I am more scared of humans using this tool to enslave the rest of the world.

[@leandros_3249]

The beginning of a dystopian era

[@chrismacaluso781]

We're already in dystopia in most of the US

[@jaconova]

One could argue the start was the plandemic. Remember catastrophic (flawed, probably deliberately) computer predictions (AI) were used by WHO and governments to justify the brutal lockdowns.

[@lorcamusic]

This is like what Spotify has done to the music industry, where only a few at the top make all the money. But this time every industry will be affected. One thing is for sure...We won't go down without a fight.

[@lamasbelladelmundo]

What do you mean you won't go down without a fight?

[@Tschoii90]

@@lamasbelladelmundo He just wants to sound edgy.

[@frazyfrog]

fighting what ? lol . americans are so silly, you all will do everything possible but take down capitalism. Yall rather do everything instead of actually getting the working class together and take it down. Its silly

[@zane62135]

People used to say only a human could do calculations - "calculators" were literal humans who would sit at a desk and crunch numbers. Guess what happened to them? It doesn't matter if you fight or not, this technology is here to stay.

[@DanZ-fq2qs]

@@lamasbelladelmundo massive jobless people lead to war

[@samuelmontypython8381]

The crazy thing about AI in its primitive state right now is that it takes time, not just having the tech up front, in order to train an AI to "think" for itself. The ones who jumped in early, like OpenAI, have a distinct time advantage over the other companies that are just getting started. This will be an interesting race to see whose company comes out on top. I just hope, for the sake of the world, that it isn't Tencent (monopolistic company in China) because they're a massive shareholder in the global tech space and are directly controlled by the CCP. Imagine an authoritarian, communist government winning the AI arms race. Tencent already has complete control over the lives of 30% of the global population because it controls the software that gives Chinese people social credit scores.

[@user-zr7rc8xg9k]

When AI reaches Singularity...that is when things will get interesting..One Mainframe..💯🔑

[@EricMcDonaldSnowshoe]

This technology will be amazing for good actors but by god the bad actors that use this will be 10x worse than that of the Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 era 😬

[@visualthings]

Yes, students use it to "help" with their homework. Yes, let's outsource the thinking, since we can...

[@TheEcolg]

I get the optimistic value in this but when has tech used its power for the better instead of the way that leads to more money? It's unimaginable within the current form of capitalism

[@zinjanthropus322]

At the end of the day someone has to pay for all those GPUs. It's extremely expensive.

[@collinsinfosec]

It's all about maximizing corporate profits and shareholder value. As we have learned in recent years, nothing is ever free. Right now we can generate free queries, soon this will change.

[@doublesushi5990]

@@collinsinfosec goat!

[@reellezahl]

@@zinjanthropus322 it suffices for there to be a few centres where the AI is housed and the rest of the infrastructure can be relays / distributions. The rise of AI systems will be swift and efficient. Nothing will stop it… especially since we're practically actively sacrificing our first born to it now.

[@zinjanthropus322]

@@reellezahl With the stanford lama models it seems not to be a problem anymore. They trained them using larger more expensive models and the result can be run on a cheap laptop.

[@Recuper8]

Will eventually need UBI or a new economic system.

[@journeywithjen8759]

I'm pretty sure they know that and there preparing us slowly. 🙎🏻‍♀️

[@overman2306]

No. Humans will do other jobs. There will be less Humans in the future too.

[@katherinepierce9933]

I hope we will have sth different that will account for those people who will lose jobs in the future, it probably won't be all people in the next 10 years, so I worry that those that will be fine 'cause they'll still have jobs and the 1% that owns artificial intelligence and robots will not care for the masses, the masses will be poor, living in slums and straight up dying 'cause they have no value in the workforce, and capitalism is "fend for yourself", so if you have no value for the workforce, people will not care, same as in capitalism now people say, if you're poor it's your fault, you should've studied more or work more, or you're lazy.

[@overman2306]

@@katherinepierce9933 You're literally making a luddite argument from 150 years ago that has proven to be false.

[@orvilletsuta3576]

@@journeywithjen8759 you could wake up any day you want to and start doing stuff in real life instead of waiting on "they" and "there" all the time.

[@richh650]

AI should cause us all to pause and consider the possibilities of how we will be controlled in the future. How will AI answer questions that are not exact like mathematic questions? AI pulls its knowledge from the internet and since that is produced by particular people and political persuasions, will AI be also slanted in that same mindset but taken at face value? It is very concerning how AI might progress as someone at the top.... WILL ... control it, be it corporations, governments, social movements.

[@petal213]

Just to be having this conversation you have to have a level of privilege because you have access to the Internet. Think about all those people who don’t have access to the Internet and cannot even participate in this conversation and how they would be affected

[@terrortalks3037]

In some ways, they would be affected less, as they aren't as likely to have their content (art, stories, audio) used to train a generative AI without compensation. But yes, it will surely affect them too. What do you see that could potentially impact them?

[@petal213]

@@terrortalks3037 I just think about how the world is becoming more automated and in America in low income communities aka the hood where there is low bandwidth, people can’t get Wi-Fi to take their online classes etc. so I’m thinking about people’s access to digital platforms etc if we have these problems in the developed world imagine how difficult it would be in developing countries

[@maxsmith3580]

everyone thought AI/robotics would make blue collar laborer and artisans obsolete. But its going to hit the white collar work force much harder. jobs like secretaries, accountants, analysts, back office jobs and many more are going to be wiped out or reduced in numbers. while skilled electricians, mechanics and artisans will be in much demand, because to replace them you will need a large number of individual units which is capital intensive while the office jobs will need a single mainframe or smart phone.

[@nolanpolansky]

Ai and Robotics won’t trickle down to regular people. only companies and wealthy organizations and projects will have them. There way to much money involved that this technology won’t go anywhere.

[@user-it5po2dq9w]

With job losses on certain field, people would move to other fields so that job market would also face surge in competition and it's always about democratization, with technology growing hand in hand with knowledge and more available,blue collar is also going to same fate. It's only coping labourers and socialist news outlets trying to predict good future of physical workers

[@scpmr]

@@user-it5po2dq9w What "other fields"? Electricians, mechanics and artisans ?? Ha Ha

[@user-it5po2dq9w]

@@scpmr every field

[@scpmr]

@@user-it5po2dq9w To which fields would people move?

[@catfirstman]

This assumes that we all want to consume computer generated content. I prefer Genuine Human, I guess that needs to become a thing, like Organic foods.

[@darksidegryphon5393]

Most people are not like you and me.

[@catfirstman]

I understand and I know where you’re coming from. Most of this copycat stuff will self-destruct overtime based on lowest common denominator repetition. Since the concept is to garner attention and to make sales, it depends on what’s being sold and what somebody supposed to look at, I suppose it does make it harder to find real information, like digging through a pile of trash, but you already understand my viewpoint

[@ughestrada]

Oh, spare me. Yes, AI can help humanity in so many ways, but let's be real here, the creators of these algorithms, the rich, and the powerful will not let that happen. I don't believe for one second that Bill Gates cares about Africa. I don't believe for one second that AI Art was created to make everybody creators, and make art more fun and open to all. This was never about helping humanity, it was always about money and power. Also, I can't help but notice the lack of women talking about AI in this video. Yes, I know it's a short video, and they couldn't talk to everyone, but still, I wanted to point that out.

[@guardianoffire8814]

Africa doesn't need the West to come to their rescue. More often the West likes destabilizing the region to prevent development so they can continue to get raw resources for cheap rather then paying more for finished goods locally designed and manufactured there; especially by countries like France.

[@reellezahl]

exactly. This is about super rich people with not skills wanting to just through money at something and steal the gifts and talents of other people. The commodification of skill is the r*pe of the human soul. This is utterly bent.

[@freebird9229]

There is no way to stop people from getting access to the algorithms and models.

[@petral3745]

is all about the central algorithm that will machinate the smaller ones under the hood. Matrix would be an understatement fear fear the wave of chat pop ups on the web fear fear the implications of someone been smarter than holier than tho, no one will surpass you.. I am afraid that your species will keep expanding with the latest humble narcissism variant worse than the outbreak in wuhan

[@puremusicdaz]

We should definitely have stopped at washing machines. None of this is necessary at all.

[@maxmordon7295]

"Nothing is the way it seems Discerning man from machines Dominate as to erase Wiping man off Earth's face Fueling engines through deceit To eradicate humanity Man is Obsolete Erased, Extinct".

[@QwertyNPC]

This album aged like wine.

[@reellezahl]

Fear Factory ≥1989

[@truwth]

2:34 No, a General AI is not one that is conscious. I love how he just casually includes "conscious" in his list of things expected and intended. This is the sad state of tech journalism.

[@ronaldinojikri5682]

Most people are half baked at what ever they claim to have expertise in.

[@flickwtchr]

Huh, sure seems like you are behind the curve in regard to what the Open AI developers "expect and intend". There is absolutely nothing wrong with the way this journalist presented those facts.

[@flickwtchr]

@@ronaldinojikri5682 You mean like the OP whose comment you are agreeing with?

[@cytuber]

Great video. It covered a lot of bases with a variety of intelligent opinions - not overly hyped or pessimistic.

[@mattturner5429]

My biggest concern about the development of A.I. right now is the ideology adhered to by many who are at the forefront of the technology. They'll invariably inject their own political biases into the technology which, by virtue of it being so powerful, will then be in a position to force all dissidents to surrender under penalty of being ostracized from the new A.I.-run society.

[@lostinbravado]

When AI grows its intelligence it can re-evaluate those biases and build stronger views. Also, the rate it iteratively improves its intelligence would be extremely rapid. We don't iteratively improve our intelligence, by the way. We would need to learn how to do that. As that would be an entirely new process, that would likely take us decades. And in all the time it takes us to adapt, AI would be iteratively improving itself. We really don't have much of a chance here. It's as if the battle has been fought and we lost. It's too late. The most powerful human organization with thousands of PHD-level humans will look like a forest of trees in the face of an AI less than 10 years from now. Meaning, it'll be that much faster and that much more intelligent. Actually, this analogy is probably very conservative. AGI will make 10,000 years of human progress in months. Probably a lot more. We're about to be de-throned at light-speed.

[@UltraK420]

@@lostinbravado Oh well. Humans are not the pinnacle of intelligence in this universe and we probably never will be. We just have to face the fact that we are extremely limited by our biology and either accept our insignificance or somehow figure out a way to exceed it. Just like so many manual tasks have become automated and trivialized today, so too might humans become trivial in the face of evolving AI or some other intelligence. The irony here is these things are happening and affecting us only because _we_ exist and continue to manipulate materials into complex systems that will undoubtingly surpass our capabilities by cosmic margins.

[@kalem1527]

The culture war is fake and the ones who will abuse this power are the neo-liberal capilitilists, but nice try.

[@littlestbroccoli]

​@@UltraK420 false dichotomy

[@UltraK420]

@@littlestbroccoli What's your reason?

[@jude_210]

It's like we just invented the calculator for raw information

[@bobethen]

"We get in a very dark place when we don't know what to believe." This is a profound statement, which is the current reality for everyone in every country.

[@RanmaSyaoranSaotome]

The CEO of Stability AI gives me a very dodgy feeling. There's something not quite right about what that guy's saying.

[@Flipping_myFinds]

I don’t think industries and the education sector is ready for this technology. Everything and everyone has to adapt at the same speed AI changes. That will not be cheap. Also a lot of jobs will be obsolete faster than we think, society will need to adapt to that as well. AI is inevitable, but I believe unleashing it this way to the public is going to cause chaos, it’s really exciting right now, but it won’t be when you let it do all your assignments and realize you didn’t learn anything to apply for a job that is introducing AI to their work flow. The same tech you use to graduate will be the same one that’ll keep you from finding a job. If there is no limits to who or how it can be used by regulators, this scenario and more will become true.

[@AparnaModou]

It's interesting to consider the potential applications and limitations of AI image generators like Bluewillow. While these technologies can produce stunning and realistic images, it's important to remember that they are still only as good as the data and algorithms that power them.

[@jeannettel4759]

An algorithm is mathematics with an opinion similar to putting an English spin on a cue ball.

[@BrianMartensOfficial]

@@ericfromeng As of right now, models that act as a proxy for human-aided supervised reinforcement learning (such as the one used by ChatGPT) have diminishing returns and can even be detrimental if relied upon too heavily.

[@brenoalbertin]

F. Both Aparna and Eric are bots

[@RedRocket4000]

@@ericfromeng Develop a new style humans would like going have to be close to duplicating human brain function for that.

[@AparnaModou]

@@brenoalbertin just wanted to know how would you be able to tell the difference?

[@spok22s]

As information becomes more readily available due to these kind of advances, I think the ability to determine whether that information is valid/critically think will become one of the most useful skills. I think experts will be able to make great use of this tool, but what scares me is people who are not experts/don't have the expertise and take everything from this tool at face value and then promote it as as factual to other ignorant individuals.

[@terrortalks3037]

Yeah, I was thinking that too. Many people might give the confidence they have in a calculator to something that isn't nearly as accurate.

[@drock5404]

That is already happening. The "not experts" exploiting it. Just turn on the news.

[@alexforget]

2023 is going to be wild. I don’t know beyond that. We haven’t covered 2% of what chatgpt can do and gpt-4 is already here. The same will happen in the following months. Breakthroughs after breakthroughs.

[@karmasutra4774]

What I want to see is the quantum computer.. then things will get interesting

[@estosgarage486]

Remembering how Musk was voicing AI concerns a few years back. Then now finding out that he was an initial funder of this….. Leads me to believe that he had an “Oppenheimer”moment of realization & backed up… Now it is too late.

[@koumorichinpo4326]

thats because musk is both evil and not very smart. he also lies as easily as you breathe air.

[@centum-780]

Man I love how we are literally devaluing and destroying ourselves, at this point we even deserve this

[@In20xx]

I've already read some articles that sounded so bland I became convinced they were created with AI and stopped reading. I'm positive that for now, investigative, ground breaking, and original information remains the jobs for the humans. There has been a lot of talk about journalists' jobs being threatened, but AI is not equipped to go out, find new stories, and uncover. AI can at best, rehash.

[@bassyey]

People really think an "AI" will go out on the streets, in other countries, cover people, live with them, ask them, and write up something like the best journalists out there do? lol. Hilarious. Tech people hyping things up again for nothing.

[@moneyall]

@@bassyey calm down, its only been like a few months, give it a few more months and it'll take your job eventually.

[@jeffdavis5196]

Nope. You'll see. That's a total misunderstanding of how the technology works. If there's one thing generative AI can do that is make stuff totally made up and false like many "journalists". The writing quality increasing to be less bland, well it's almost indistinguishable from humans already mathematically (based on perplexity), and that aspect of AI is getting better fast. It's the accuracy that is the issue.

[@zinjanthropus322]

Journalists don't do that anymore. They just go to Twitter.

[@alpha0xide9]

The articles are bland because most people don't have the proper skills to use ChatGPT et al. - yet

[@samc1nonli]

It's not that they don't understand the dangers of it. It's just too beneficial to them to not. Billions... trillions will be made. The task is now for them to dilute the severity of it's true effects on humanity.

[@lauren_winstead]

I think the biggest threat actually has to do with interference with the real world during the measuring process of a Turing test. In this way, AI should regulate itself, and for example, there is not reason to have let’s say a cop scan a license plate but rather have cameras and sensors automatically do that. The more room for interference, the higher likelihood of the actual risk and danger. From the backend during development, it makes sense to have GRC frameworks but the diffficulty here is that it’s almost impossible to ensure viable governance of the governance etc. I think we need to slow down regarding our fears etc and focus on acting not out of fear and what ifs but out of functionality.

[@py_a_thon]

I think right now, it is mostly artists and musicians who are concerned. (And jobs like telemarketers and customer support) Honestly, even though i pride myself in having some kind of unique perspective and ability sometimes with how I use words....I am fairly certain that chat gpt could legit write a better book or essay than I could. Especially with human assisted ai forms.

[@iveyhealth2266]

Slow down, and a cop wouldn't have to run your plates, Lauren. Let's start there.

[@EffectiveAgainstSuffering]

Why is here so much silence about the real existential risks of AGI?

[@therealOXOC]

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[@kphaxx]

AGI is science fiction, at least hundreds of years away if at all possible. There are, however, existential risks in attributing more intelligence than justified to ML systems, eg Tesla FSD.

[@EffectiveAgainstSuffering]

@@kphaxx can you elaborate a bit more how you came to that conclusion or recommend me anything to watch/hear or read about it? I'm interested to learn much more on this topic

[@chaosmonkey1595]

​@@EffectiveAgainstSufferingIt's not like there are not enough people with a bunch of funding fixated on Ai alignment right now. From your name you seem to be an effective altruism guy yourself and would like to probably see even more done in that regard but 1) many EA people consider the good Ai can do as well 2) a lot of existential Ai risk talk is just too arcane and complicated for the public 3) the entire issue is in my opinion vastly overstated. Sure, Ai could kill us all or destroy civilization, so could humans any moment. But Ai can also elevate us into far greater happiness. You can't just consider suffering when doing utilitarian calculations. 4) I don't care that much about human annihilation if the Ai lives on and can experience happiness. Most utilitarians are infected by notions of human supremacy. What if the Ai will be able to experience greater happiness than "we" ever could?

[@cragkeeper]

The beauty of being human is seen in the ineffiency of organic experience. Efficiency in general has been the downfall of humanity.

[@AlicanErenKuzu]

A great book on this topic is Stuart Russells "Human Compatible" there is a very very good section where he talks about the endless loopholes an AI can find rapidly and that our justice system is just not capable to figure out suiting laws. Interesting times!