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Well there is good and bad that comes with this. On the bright side maybe more people will become builders, electricians etc. and fairly sad state of housing and infrastructure will get addressed
I was just thinking that. Something like UBI will probably become inevitable and you'll be able to afford to live without working. But if you want a better standard of living than the basic, the high paying jobs people will compete for will be skilled professions like builders, plumbers (already well paid here tbh due to shortages), maintenance workers/handiman etc.
Pointless. Adobe debuted Firefly yesterday and they will eat up this corner of the market.
None of these things will happen.
Masses of people are not going to lose their jobs because it is their job to use these tools. Some imaginary Hal9000 or space ghost isn't going to to do it for them.
We could see job increases in some places because the workload will increase.
Welfare systems already exist for the unemployed. It's a stupid idea to have a "UBI" because it is the same as cutting taxes while increasing government debt. The wealthy should pay their share and stop making life expensive for everyone else.
They named it after Dali? Is that meant to honour him or something?
People have been saything that about every invention since the dawn of time. What it will do is boost productivity. We are just begining to see what AI can do. It will take a lot of jobs, but it will also probably generate jobs when people use it in way we have not even thought of yet.
It's already far more restrictive than Midjourney, so I guess time will tell
Look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DALL-E
And this quote:
How the name was formed
How did the creators at this company come up with the name DALL-E? The name is a combination of the artist Salvador Dali and the robot WALL-E from Pixar. Combining both art and digital animation using artificial intelligence, the company’s system DALL-E is leaving its mark in the world of AI.Source for the quote: https://interestingengineering.com/...-it-works-and-how-the-system-generates-ai-art
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Of course humans will always be required as part of the process, not least to keep solving and improving the engineering effort behind AI. But if the tech can shrink staff down from thousands to a few a business will do it. Employing people is typically the biggest expense.
There is nothing imaginary about what's coming from what I can see. Some of the sharpest minds in the world agree it's inevitable. We're seeing some early evidence now to suggest they are on the right path. Recent events in this space are convincing me.
Of course, it's possible I'm replying to an even bigger genius who is right to dismiss what is being said to happen to the world as we know it today. I would prefer you to be right if I'm honest.
Since these sharp minds broadly forecast radical change will have already started in the workplace by 2025, we won't be waiting too long to see who is on the right path in terms of thinking.
How is Apple going to lose market share? Are people going to stop buying iPhones, iPads or Mac’s because Bing uses a “Ok” barely 1st Gen AI???
Are people going to run out and buy Windows PC’s and Android phones???
People are losing their minds over this stuff. It is really, really early days.
In this age of people being worried about new advances in AI and its potential misuse, I'm glad Siri is still comfortably stuck in 2011. 
If you're worried about AIs putting people out of jobs or being used to spread misinformation, boy does Apple have the AI assistant for you:
If you're worried about AIs putting people out of jobs or being used to spread misinformation, boy does Apple have the AI assistant for you:
Good because I am tired of reading about how easily ChatGPT is gaslit/punked into saying the worst things. We need WAY less political theater in our world today.
Well , Microsoft didnt do anything special , they paid for a finish product (chatGPT for 20Billion USD) , there are a LOT of chatGPT like companies around , the ones that are hurting are google as they lose search clicks to bing and they need to respond right away.
I will say that being the first to something makes your product the defacto leader and brand , such as iPad being the name for most tablets , Tesla for anything electric , as will chatGPT for any Large Language Model.
Its so fun to use , the next version (already here , chatGPT4) will build your app for you , I expect a barrage of **** apps hitting the stores soon.
Heard an interesting evaluation about all these “AI” tools that have been popping up. They aren’t artificial intelligence, but rather very advanced copy and paste features.
That said, I think all these tools are pretty fun.
That said, I think all these tools are pretty fun.
IMHO there is simply way to much hype about all of this right now. I see this so called AI as nothing but search time saver at this point. It can do any real thinking on its own, it needs to be fed mountains of data and it needs an army of programers to support it. After that it can basically help you get search results faster.
I can ask it for a Powershell script to do a handful of things that I will use on 5000 machines, like remove a file, create a folder and stuff a new file into it, or retrieve log files etc, and it will give me a script pretty quick that is 85-95% ready. That is great. What did I do before...use Google search and I got the same results but not as fast. A co-worker of mine fed it a link to a weekly grocery store ad and asked it to build her and meal plan for the week. The results where just OK and that is being nice. She could do it her herself in 20min but get MUCH better results.
I recently listened to a podcast with some think tank experts on AI. They said we are 30 years away (if not more) from true AI, what they called "General AI". They described ChatGPT as "Applied AI", lots and lots of programing and data to establish a decision tree that the program tries to follow. If the question or request falls out of the decision tree it goes off the rails as we have seen many examples of. They also said that decisions a 3 year old is making today, AI can't make.
Now we need a caption contest for the guy on the lower left.
”Eye phone, get it?!”
And so forth.
Eh, not sure how thin the ice is based on this. They are definitely distracted from their core strengths. But I don’t think search is one of their core strengths. They’ve let Google and Microsoft have it all this time. It definitely makes Siri look bad though. But before I want Siri to do stuff like this, I would settle for just understanding what I say and returning results correctly as they exist now.
Because AI is a software product. If you've seen the quality of Apple software in the past decade or so, you'd understand why getting into something as complex as AI may be a bit of a stretch.
Same goes for Microsoft software, that I support daily. That is why Microsoft had to pay 20billion for someone else's hard work.
The world of software today, in general, is pretty sad. Not enough programers, lots of people taking some 6 month coding boot camp and getting thrown into coding grinder of ever changing software so they can turn out garbage software. No one has time to go back and fix it...let alone review it, so it just rots.
Machine Learning Models (aka AI) combined with a browser are a new frontier for business. Like the original WWW ( which many saw as a passing fad) no one can predict what will happen next. If this tech can make humans more productive, it might turn out to be the most positive development in 200 years. Apple had Bill Atkinson’s HyperCard in 1985, but they were too insular to see its potential outside local networks — a $1T mistake.
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"Create me a image of a server on fire with people dancing around it"
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So this is somehow offensive? AI is going to be useless because its going to be censored to death.
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