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0 pointsCyphase2y ago0 comments

If you get away from roads you wouldn't realize engines exist. Also, the internet is (part of) the real world.

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Sure and there’s endless AI generated blog spam from “journalists” saying LLMs are amazing and they’re going to replace our jobs etc… but get away from the tech bubble and you’ll see we’re so far away from that. Full self driving when? Autonomous house keepers when? Even self checkout still has to have human help most of the time and didn’t reduce jobs much. Call me a skeptic but HN is way too optimistic about this stuff.

Replacing all jobs except LLM developers? I’ll tell my hairdresser

ben_w2y ago

If we could predict "when", that would make the investment decisions much easier.

But we do have a huge number of examples of jobs disappearing thanks to machines — even the term "computer" used to refer to a job.

More recently and specifically to LLMs, such losses were already being reported around this time last year: https://www.businessinsider.com/jobs-lost-in-may-because-of-...

ux-app2y ago

In a world where openAI exists, it really does require an almost breathtaking lack of imagination to be a skeptic.

horns4lyfe2y ago

Or you’ve been around the block long enough to recognize hype and know when your imagination may be wrong. Imagination isn’t infallible.

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