Yup. It's usually programmers and web developers. I have nothing against those careers, but they seem to be the most vocal in a lot of futurism/AI discussions. Meanwhile they will be first in line to go, and physical labour will probably be one of the last sectors remaining.

Most programmers are aware that the barrier to entry for programming is going to plummet soon, but some people think their career and skillset is more essential and important than everyone else's. I didn't check, but I would bet at least one of the negative comments here are from a developer. It's the same as in person, like 1 in 10 of them have a superiority complex that's absolutely toxic for everyone else.

Thanks.

Nothing new, there's some people that follow this sub just to comment stuff like this. They're comment history often has aggressiveness and a bully mentality.

That has happened to me a few times, I messaged the mods, they said my posts were rightfully removed, but then none of my posts since have gotten removed. So I don't know.

Hands-on time with AI. I think just getting used to using it is a good start right now. Figuring out what it can be useful for. Like how the internet is more than just social media, yet the majority of the population uses it only for that.

This is assuming the likelihood of there being a transition period. I agree capitalism can't last forever, at least not how we see it today.

I hope it's the end of capitalism. But I imagine it won't be so abrupt. There will probably be years of job losses and uncertainty. I could be wrong though.

Oh wow, that's a big coincidence haha.

That'd be interesting. I haven't tried just throwing reddit discussions in there yet.

Wish I had an answer for you there, and myself.

Why does telling them to down vote me and move on imply I have an entitlement issue?

The issue here is some people, typically the exact type that say the term nothingburger, get obsessed with being "told what to think" when there's a button that states you disagree and you're free to click it.

There's no need to personally attack people over a reddit post about the future of AI that clearly some people enjoyed.

>Let people be the judge of what is "monumentally important" or what should they get "in their brain".

Read the title again? I said I THINK that SOME people might find it important.

There's always a percentage of people that hate being told what to think, which fair enough, but nobody is telling you what to think so relax. It's a reddit post.

Just downvote and move on. Like these comments, my replies will be subjected to the people that can't make the post score plummet so they attack the comments. It's whatever.

>Don't put to much pressure on it. Just tinker for fun.

That's good advice. Just use it and see what you can discover.

Yeah riches aren't so much the point, more so financial adequacy until hopefully someday we figure out the economy with automation.

Stories are a good way to use it. Try having it edit the story by changing certain details. You can see what else it can do besides stories too; advice, problems, lyrics/poems, etc.

Smart!

>Just points, that are reiterated here million times

Like what? What has been reiterated here a million times? I've not seen much if any mention in posts or comments recommending people to use AI now in preparation for staying on top of it in the future. You "scanned" the post but you didn't read it. I don't really care if you did, but your argument is nonsense.

>Just reduce the grandiosity and self-importance by like 90%.

Yeah? Ok, sorry boss?

I don't think my post is important. I think the message in it is. I browse the sub and I've seen a lot of people worrying about automation and employment in the future. Do you maybe think some of these people don't see themselves as superior as yourself?

Some people are lost, some are anxious, it's a post to help some people focus on self improvement and prepare for the future. There's students making the leap into post-secondary education and they think they're going to be phased out of the market before they even get the chance to participate. There's people from impoverished backgrounds trying to make a career change and afraid they're going to waste their time learning something that will be obsolete in a year. There's people with disabilities that can't imagine being able to compete against AI and haven't thought of honing their skills by utilizing it now while it's still new.

And accept nuance next time, I said I don't mean to sound like a crack-pot prophet. As in, I know initially it sounds like it with a title like that but I'm stressing how important it is for people to stay up-to-date with AI.

How you got that from my post is curious..

Though your account is low karma, so I assume bot.

Well yes, but it depends on the situation. Dinner with a spouse, yes rude and probably unnecessary. While following a recipe and talking to your spouse during dinner preparation, it's an extension of your mind and capability.

There's probably better examples.

Haha. Well I'd compare saying that to telling people to learn linux before linux was created. We now have plenty of offerings available for free and easily accessible for AI.

It's actually so fascinating, we are alive in the moments when true AI is able to be used, and freely. Such an opportunity and so many are sleeping on it with the mindset of "something new will come along soon" or "it's a fad" but the reality is AI is our future, and I don't think there's a single credible argument to be made against it.

Oh? Care to explain what you mean a little better?

Hey look, someone read a title to a post and then a couple lines, formed an opinion on it and attacked the op.

It's not excessive, and it will be important for some people to read that need a push. AI isn't going anywhere and encouraging people betterment for themselves is not obnoxious.

>He doesn't think prompt engineering will really be a job/skillset in the future

I agree with this too. But I'm not talking about 5 years from now, I'm talking about next year and the year after. The opportunities are coming now. I stated it in the post too, prompting will likely be a thing of the past before it ever really becomes a thing in the first place. I don't suggest "learning prompting" exactly, I suggest learning what AI can do for you now, and thinking about what it can do in the short term before it's totally ubiquitous. Before there's no new land to discover.

When I talk to people about how incredible smartphones and the internet are to people, all they every think about is a camera, social media, and a calculator. They simply skim over the fact you have access to most human knowledge in your pocket at all times. We still have that persistent "don't pull your phone out when talking to someone" mentality that comes across as rude or ignorant. We can literally look up any word someone uses, any reference to a a historical event, a song we want to remember, a formula, etc. We can use our phones to multiply our intelligence, yet so many times you can be talking with someone and they have zero inclination about a certain problem or task they come across when the answer is probably on the internet. We still have the problem of people believing information without fact checking it, and they assume social media is factual.

While all that stuff can currently be learned, it is important to learn how to use AI now while it's still ground zero for takeoff. AI will not magically make everyone accustomed to it, you will have to still make an effort to learn it to maximize its potential. The type that refuse to fact check will continue to do so and slip further away from being able to climb out of an echo chamber.

I hope for a world opposite of that, but yeah this post is about preparation for the time period before that could ever happen, ie. now.

Oh, I absolutely don't want to live in a world of have's and have not's. I imagine that won't be the case sometime in the future, hopefully sooner rather than later. But there will inevitably be a transition period, and until the day I don't have to worry about my electricity bill, I would rather be able to pay it without feeling sick to my stomach.

I really hope we go through the transition to automation quickly with a temporary UBI implemented until we see how autonomous our society really becomes.

>Spending more time on FB at this point is unlikely to bring you any advantage, unless you are a business owner trying to use FB to market your product, but then, you are learning digital marketing, not using FB.

You could argue the majority of the population has no sense of privacy settings, or general thoughtfulness toward privacy of themselves or family/friends. While using FB in general is not private toward the corporation or 3rd parties sharing your information (another lesson), there is an important lesson in sharing personal details, opening spam links, etc. You can say that transcends using FB and applies to many applications and I'd agree. As I would say that also applies the same with AI. Plenty of things will transcend between different AI, they already do.

>It is because different AI tools might have very different underlying architectures and trained on different datasets, but you don't have access to these information, so you will never know when to apply pre-existing assumptions about AI tools.

See I disagree. We may not have access to the structural processes behind the AI, but like FB (maybe Instagram or Youttube are better examples) people constantly learn to "game" the new algorithms. People learn new settings, people learn new strategies. It may seem so simply to us now, pulling up Google and searching something, but in 1999 we had to learn it. We will have to relearn how to use the internet alongside AI. Plenty of people will fall behind and just skim the surface of what's possible. Underestimating the potential "muscle memory" of practicing with AI is the entire point of my post.

Even using AI now, the learning curve is quite steep if you start adjusting them with the parameters we're given access to. For example, we have sliders in TTI models. There's plenty to learn, and plenty to watch for in the pipeline for the future. I think dismissing it will be a disadvantage for anyone that is currently still on top of everything to date.

That's a really good use case to try and practice with it now. It might not be able to really help, or maybe it will give some useful insight I don't know. It's a good idea to try and use some workarounds now to see what answers you can get, and in the future those same strategies might prove useful when prompting a much more advanced model. It's all about hands-on time right now, and trying to learn what capabilities you can harness with the current model's architecture.