I was thinking about starting a new creative project recently. But then I thought - with how quickly AI is advancing, in just a few years an AI will probably be able to do this in just minutes. So it made me feel kind of apathetic and think, “Why should I bother starting this big project now if an AI could do it for me in a few years?”
I’m curious if others feel this way or if the advancement of AI is making people less motivated to start big, creative projects since the work could just be automated by an AI soon anyways. It could increase apathy and make people feel like “why bother?” Am I overthinking this? Does the possibility of AI taking over certain tasks in the future make you less motivated to start projects and learn new skills? Would love to hear others’ thoughts on this!
No. True AI is still a while away. What is getting traction are Large Language Models which I don’t classify as AI because the systems are not creating anything new, they are appropriating what already existed and saying it in another way.
Isn’t this humanity in a nutshell? Standing on the shoulders of Giants, etc.
Not really. The LLMs use tokens instead of actual words to understand the words. There’s a layer of disassociation. That’s different to taking pre existing knowledge, understanding it, and using it to divine more knowledge.
The layer of disassociation is present w/ humans speaking different languages too though, right? My point is that once we can understand each other, we are all building on what already exists
Language is not disassociation.
Yeah. We’re all embedded in a context and in a world surrounding us. So are computer language models.
RFC1925 6a at it again