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AnneFisher

@fuzzychef
Do NOT mistake what is happening inside #Google with a mere "greedy corporation" story.

PAY ATTENTION!

Google developed the same revolutionary #ArtificialIntelligence which has permitted the recent #layoffs in the #TechIndustry . #AI can now do the #Coding & countless other #TechJobs .

Google ( #LaMDA ) & #Microsoft ( #Azure ) are at war, & whoever wins the #AI will own the #internet .

More tech layoffs are on the way.

This will change the entire world as we know it.

#ChatGPT

24 Jan 2023 at 6:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.party
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Peat Bog

@AnneTheWriter @fuzzychef
Did you notice that ChatGPT can't do math or cite sources? And that self-driving cars can't actually read the road?

I wouldn't get too excited about AI. Currently it's not smarter than an earthworm.

24 Jan 2023 at 15:19 | Open on med-mastodon.com
AnneFisher

@peatbog @fuzzychef
You haven't been paying attention.

I did notice that many of the news stories you've been reading on #YahooNews , #CNET , and other sites have been written by #AI for some time now, even if you never noticed.

In the past few months alone, #ArtificialIntelligence has advanced exponentially. I've seen what it can do via various #writers & #authors online. My husband (who works in #IT ) is expecting to lose his job to it before long.

You are dismissing it far too flippantly.

@peatbog @fuzzychef
You haven't been paying attention.

I did notice that many of the news stories you've been reading on #YahooNews , #CNET , and other sites have been written by #AI for some time now, even if you never noticed.

In the past few months alone, #ArtificialIntelligence has advanced exponentially. I've seen what it can do via various #writers & #authors online. My husband (who works in #IT ) is expecting to lose his job to it before long.

24 Jan 2023 at 15:34 | Open on mstdn.party
AnneFisher
AnneFisher

@peatbog @fuzzychef

One month ago...

This video is rather long, but it analyzes how well #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence can #code in several #programminglanguages .

Spoiler: #AI does a lot better than you would expect.

youtu.be/Fw5ybNwwSbg

24 Jan 2023 at 16:11 | Open on mstdn.party
Peat Bog

@AnneTheWriter @fuzzychef
Again, I would ignore ChatGPT''s apparent wins and focus on its fails. Every scam begins with wins so amazing people forget to examine the fails.

24 Jan 2023 at 17:03 | Open on med-mastodon.com
Jeff Noxon 

@AnneTheWriter @fuzzychef

OMG, no.

I'm a software engineer with decades of experience and familiarity with AI. AI is a very long way from taking away tech jobs. AI can't do the work of a software developer, which largely isn't writing code in the first place.

ChatGPT can generate code as a side-effect of having been trained on a lot of code, and sometimes it's useful, but more often than not it's a weird combination of hilarious and terrible.

Solving real-world problems requires sentience.

24 Jan 2023 at 15:44 | Open on mastodon.xyz
Jeff Noxon 

@AnneTheWriter @fuzzychef The basic AI we have today is definitely going to make profound changes to the way we interact with search engines and other software, and there's definitely an arms race brewing, which will require more skilled engineers to build.

The truth of the tech job cuts is far more boring and straightforward. Large shareholders are demanding cuts so they can take short term profits at the expense of long-term gains.

24 Jan 2023 at 15:46 | Open on mastodon.xyz
AnneFisher

@jnoxon @fuzzychef
That's a big aspect of this, have no doubt. Corp Boards saw how #ElonMusk fired huge numbers but #Twitter kept running, and they were inspired.

But this is a "perfect storm" moment, because many of the #TechJobs now CAN be done by automation and #AI . There will not be much damage done to their products by the loss of these workers, because #technology is making up for the lost #labor force.

Without negative effects of layoffs on these businesses, more #layoffs will happen.

@jnoxon @fuzzychef
That's a big aspect of this, have no doubt. Corp Boards saw how #ElonMusk fired huge numbers but #Twitter kept running, and they were inspired.

But this is a "perfect storm" moment, because many of the #TechJobs now CAN be done by automation and #AI . There will not be much damage done to their products by the loss of these workers, because #technology is making up for the lost #labor force.

24 Jan 2023 at 16:30 | Open on mstdn.party
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