Recently I have been reading in the newspaper about it. It is so scary. It does seem like an end of an era for humans. What kind of life next generation will lead? i feel sorry for them. Personally I have always enjoyed imperfection in humans, art as it keeps one curious. Now nothing will be left to discuss, to enjoy or on a lighter note to gossip about . Sad.
I’m an optimist by nature so I don’t want to give the impression that everything about AI is bad. On the contrary, it could help with many different problems right now. But it is undeniably going to change the majority of jobs that exist today.
Right now it feels like a fast incoming wave which we have to learn in nanoseconds to ride or sink and hope to survive to see what's on the other side.
Excellent essay, as always. And that David Bowie interview is such an amazing find! Bowie was right. But I feel so was Paxton – although not how he presented it. The internet turned out to be an amazing tool for many people and created opportunities for certain sections of society. But AI feels different, and as you have pointed out, it is because this time, automation is coming for knowledge workers – the people writing many of these articles :). As a writer myself, I find myself confused by the coming of Chat-GPT (plus whatever else Google, Amazon, and Meta will release). Which jobs will it replace? Which jobs will it transform (akin to how the internet transformed the creative process)? And, of course, will _my_ skills be made redundant? Would love to know your thoughts on this in a future newsletter.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. The founders of OpenAI and many of these other companies are downplaying the capacity right now by calling it a tool. In fact, the uses are somewhat narrow. But uses for generative AI are coming quick and fast. I have a lot more thoughts about this (and how it impacts my life too) that I’ll share.
Sure. This is a passion project so by all means feel free to direct others here if you want to. I’m not sure about crossposting since I’ve never done it myself.
I guess my main point is that if people can’t notice what is written by AI and what is written by a person it doesn’t matter so much to the reader. After all they’re getting the same content. But to the writer there’s no incentive to write anymore. If a machine can do it, why bother wasting time and energy? There’s no incentive anymore.
I worry about that as well. We may start to feel like somewhat dim-witted second class citizens in our own civilization.
Remember the Luddites of the First Industrial Revolution? Their motivations were exactly similar. Perhaps there will be a Neo Luddite movement on the part of we Fifth Industrial Revolution folks?
Recently I have been reading in the newspaper about it. It is so scary. It does seem like an end of an era for humans. What kind of life next generation will lead? i feel sorry for them. Personally I have always enjoyed imperfection in humans, art as it keeps one curious. Now nothing will be left to discuss, to enjoy or on a lighter note to gossip about . Sad.
I’m an optimist by nature so I don’t want to give the impression that everything about AI is bad. On the contrary, it could help with many different problems right now. But it is undeniably going to change the majority of jobs that exist today.
So perceptive! Thank you for bringing out this newsletter
My pleasure. Thanks for reading!
Right now it feels like a fast incoming wave which we have to learn in nanoseconds to ride or sink and hope to survive to see what's on the other side.
I have a lot of thoughts about this next wave, but it’s pretty clear that all jobs will change.
Excellent essay, as always. And that David Bowie interview is such an amazing find! Bowie was right. But I feel so was Paxton – although not how he presented it. The internet turned out to be an amazing tool for many people and created opportunities for certain sections of society. But AI feels different, and as you have pointed out, it is because this time, automation is coming for knowledge workers – the people writing many of these articles :). As a writer myself, I find myself confused by the coming of Chat-GPT (plus whatever else Google, Amazon, and Meta will release). Which jobs will it replace? Which jobs will it transform (akin to how the internet transformed the creative process)? And, of course, will _my_ skills be made redundant? Would love to know your thoughts on this in a future newsletter.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment. The founders of OpenAI and many of these other companies are downplaying the capacity right now by calling it a tool. In fact, the uses are somewhat narrow. But uses for generative AI are coming quick and fast. I have a lot more thoughts about this (and how it impacts my life too) that I’ll share.
These last two essays by you are masterpieces! Do you mind if I alert other people to them and sfeer them to your website?
What happens in cross posting? How does one do it!
Last, how can I be sure AI didnt write part of your essay? 😉 Perhaps a disclosure law is in order?
Sure. This is a passion project so by all means feel free to direct others here if you want to. I’m not sure about crossposting since I’ve never done it myself.
I guess my main point is that if people can’t notice what is written by AI and what is written by a person it doesn’t matter so much to the reader. After all they’re getting the same content. But to the writer there’s no incentive to write anymore. If a machine can do it, why bother wasting time and energy? There’s no incentive anymore.
I worry about that as well. We may start to feel like somewhat dim-witted second class citizens in our own civilization.
Remember the Luddites of the First Industrial Revolution? Their motivations were exactly similar. Perhaps there will be a Neo Luddite movement on the part of we Fifth Industrial Revolution folks?