Posted on 06/22/2024 6:56:34 AM PDT by DoodleBob
OpenAI CTO Mira Murati returned to her alma mater, Dartmouth College, this week for a thought-provoking conversation on the future of artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society. During the event, which was held in Dartmouth’s newly constructed engineering building, Murati, a 2012 graduate of the Thayer School of Engineering, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion, touching on topics from her journey at OpenAI to the ethical considerations surrounding large language models and precision health.
However, it was one particular comment that sparked considerable debate among those in attendance and online. When asked about the potential for AI-driven job displacement, Murati stated, "Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place."
Murati's remark, while seemingly casual, touched upon a deeply sensitive nerve in an era of rapid technological advancement. The prospect of AI automating tasks traditionally performed by humans, particularly within creative fields, has raised concerns about job security and the future of work.
While acknowledging the potential for job losses, Murati's statement appeared to suggest that certain creative roles might be inherently inefficient or unnecessary, implying that their elimination by AI could be a positive development.
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She also highlighted the potential for AI to democratise creativity, making it more accessible to a broader range of individuals who might not have had the resources or training to pursue their creative aspirations in the past. "The first part of anything that you're trying to do," she explained, "whether it's um creating new designs, whether it's coding, uh or writing an essay or um, you know, um concepts in topology, you can just learn about these things and interact with them in a much more intuitive way, and that expands your learning."
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How about compensating the people with these “creative jobs” for the intellectual property you STOLE to train your GenAI, Mira?
Marx and Engels already explained the end-game in their Manifesto:
The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
That's like an accountant explaining the value of modern art.
They have become enamored with sound bytes and press releases rather than the technology and moral/ethical use of AI.
I think the frantic push for AI is significantly driven by demographics. They know that increasing numbers of people will just not have the intellectual skills to sustain modern society.
Gustave Eiffel and others would disagree...
"Shouldn't have been there in the first place" is a wild overstatement. We can find better, more efficient ways to do many things. That doesn't mean the underlying functions shouldn't have been there in the first place. Quite the contrary, if we're automating those functions, they're not going away; they're just being integrated into the production model in a different way.
Which may displace a lot of people who have performed those functions in the old way, but the functions are still there.
"Shouldn't have been there in the first place" is an engineer saying that because a computer or AI system can do advanced mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton wasn't needed in the first place.
So we learn VP Harris moonlighting in AI.
Wait a minute1
I was told AI would free up my time for creative stuff like writing poetry, painting pictures, music.
Now I learn I’m stuck washing dishes and vaccuming while the AI writes poetry, creates pictures, creates music....
Yes. I feel like the “experts” fail to put two and two together.
Boring, repetitive jobs? Oh, that’s a thing of the past. No human needs to work in a factory tightening bolts on the assembly line. We have robots to do that. Automation will eliminate all the repetitive jobs.
Creative jobs? Oh, that’s a thing of the past. No human needs to that stuff. AI can do it perfectly well. AI will eliminate all the creative jobs.
Paperwork? Oh, that’s a thing of the past. No human needs to that stuff. AI can do it perfectly well. AI will eliminate all the paper shuffling cubicle work that so many people do from home. No human needs to do paperwork.
This all leads in a very bad direction. But I really don’t see people talking about the Big Picture here.
I’ve been doing some writing on a project. I ran what I wrote through chatGPT and it did a very good job of cleaning it up for me. More clarity and more concise. I still had to go back in and re-edit its edits. It was a good tool, though. And editing is always a long process so it was helpful. It couldn’t decide what to write about - that’s the clients job - but once started it can help.
That said, AI will very soon create entire movies. Look up Sora AI. It may not be perfect but it will get better. It will require humans for a while longer. Human prompts. But it might get to where it learns what people like to watch and generate a film on its own. Just needs enough computing power to crunch all the information.
“… it’s a “smart as a PhD…”
I’ve known some very dumb PhDs.
Presumably, higher degree = higher IQ. But, she is probably a diversity hire.
And, a PhD in gender studies => just plain stupid.
“I really don’t see people talking about the Big Picture here.”
The big picture is a senior caste of wealthy and powerful people living in luxury—while the rest of the peons on the planet are their slaves begging for handouts.
“Shouldn’t have been there in the first place” is an engineer saying that because a computer or AI system can do advanced mathematics, Sir Isaac Newton wasn’t needed in the first place. “
The statement is so stupid on the face of it that you wonder why how it was said…
“Some creative jobs maybe will go away, but maybe they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”
Creative jobs huh? I would think anything rules based. Especially if the rules are written down.
Lawyers, they might have it tough. Anyone involved in taxation maybe. Coders, they’d be in for it too. Doctors - most of that is troubleshooting and the manuals are all written down.
I wish I was a plumber. AI ain’t going to get that. Well, except my customers were all lawyers and doctors. Damn.
Shouldn’t have been there in the first place? If they weren’t, what content would these LLMs have to steal from?
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