Actually I think the 'thrown' account makes a fair criticism of the AFP writer bringing AGI into the discussion at this point.. The path to there from here is tenuous at best (though a very worthwhile one to discuss IMHO), the points made in the article sans the AGI red herring are actually a good summary of where we are, so, while 'denial' might be a bit much, all of the issues raised (again without regard to AGI) are certainly real and relevant..
Hearing people say that there's a path from ChatGPT to AGI is like hearing that there's a path from a rollercoaster to a fighter jet.
...said the crypto bros. Look how well that played out.
That’s more because the entire industry was a giant pump and dump. And to be fair we have yet to see ChatGPT produce a real good scam.
Sorry to hear your job is so simple it can be automated away, but for the rest of us there's no big danger.
Please chatGPT, write an OS, a spreadsheet and a word processor. Bug free btw. Now Microsoft has no business ?
People realize it’s not that easy right ?
ChatGPT can do all of those things the same way it responds to prompts: by stealing the answers from other people.
If ChatGPT weren't just remixing and regurgitating billions of hours of work by other people, it would be unimpressive.
Actually this AI should be called « synthesized work of human intelligence ». Because that’s all that it is. It’s created by us, feed by our intelligence and knowledge and is « usable » by our specie only and has no meaning by itself.
So it’s just like any other powerful tool, if should be regulated asap.
While I am not worried about my situation (and I expect most HN readers will not be either) anyone familiar with the types of corporate thinking behind business process re-engineering or digital transformation will see the streamlining and redesign potential coming online near term.. Couple that with the long term shifts in work patterns accelerated by the pandemic and with the shifts in capital markets that are starting now and will play out over the likely deployments of the next few generations of generative model based systems and there seems to be a lot of downsizing potential throughout large sectors of current business employment.