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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The education of Americans has been intentionally sabotaged.
Damned if there ain’t a vacuum at just the right time. Americans lose one again. I don’t like cookies anymore.
Nancy Pelosi promised everybody could stay home and write bad poetry and still get a government income. If AI gets in the way of that dream then look out.
You are onto it.
Looky here: “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”
If it’s the AI doing the creation, it won’t be the “individual’s” work anyhow. AI is an ok brainstorming partner, but its native creativity is pretty lame, in my experience. Above all, if engineers and PhDs are doing the AI training, by definition, the result is not going to be wildly inventive, unless it is coding or designing bridges. Quentin Tarantino and Gillian Flynn need not panic, I assure you.
Okay, I’ll bite: What do cookies have to do with this topic?
“I wish I was a plumber. AI ain’t going to get that. “
Yep, AI is going to help blue collar workers turn the table on snooty white collar workers.
Plumbers and electricians are making $150/hr and no AI is going to replace them any time soon.
Anyone else find it interesting with all this technology a lot of people just want to watch YT videos of people doing stuff in outdoors..hiking ..camping..travel..all things that do not require technology.
The basics in life can not be improved upon all that much.
Maps and GPS are great but they are an aid.
Nothing really, it’s just that we keep losing every challenge/battle (education in this case) and I’m told that’s just the way the cookie crumbles, some you win and some you lose.
Trouble is.... that cookie never seems to crumble in the American people’s favor. You ever notice that?
Wait ‘till November, you’ll see what I mean.
This is not the first time in human history that “technology” eliminated jobs and it will not be the last.
I am in my 70s and I can think of dozen of jobs that no longer exist because of technology. Going back in history the list would almost endless. The final results (almost) remains the same, but the manpower need to create those results have gone down, which in turn made the final product both cheaper and more readily available.
My only advise for young people just starting out is to look for a career that would be difficult to automate (such as a trade, electrician, carpenter, mechanic and so on).
” really don’t see people talking about the Big Picture”
Me either. Which is troubling because its not all that hard to see. Very hard to come to terms with though.
Much modern art is a joke perpetrated on the fake intellectuals with money crowd.
You’re right, mostly.
The trouble here is the scale.
This is most definitely the first time this has happened at such a scale.
I think the scale is what most do not understand or are afraid to admit.
Yes. The standard line has been that automation will take away the Burger Flipper jobs. And, hey, who cares? Those people can go out and get "real jobs". But the AI revolution will decimate lawyers, doctors, banking, insurance, finance -- just about all of the "good jobs" that people go to college for. Oh! Let's laugh at the fools who got degrees in Lesbian Dance Theory! Ha! Ha! Ha! I was smart -- a got a real degree so that I could get a real job. And then here comes AI and takes your good job away. Not so smart now, eh?
I retired from a job that could theoretically be done by AI.
The main problem with doing that is that it would take many thousands of hours of programming time—with the assistance of current subject matter experts.
That may happen eventually—but the job is very specialized and done by very few people so it would be a low priority to spend all that effort with programmers.
AI will go for the low hanging fruit first.
I am in a niche field as well. With the right AI I could replace a lot of my team and maybe a lot of other teams.
For now, assuming that AI is truly at the stage we think it is at (if I was a conspiracy theorist I would not believe this, but thankfully I’m not), I think people would still be needed to direct and focus AI.
Now, considering where AI “started” at in 2022 and where it is now... yeah, in two years I better be looking for another job.
All that said though, lately I’ve been feeling like Neo. Starting to get the feeling what I have been doing is not all that useful in the grand scheme of things. Maybe I been on UBI for the last few years... while “they” figure out what to do with all this excess human labor currently on hand. Heh... there I go again.
There are really two radically different visions of AI....
(1) AI help humans do things more efficiently.
(2) AI gets sick and tired of humans and focuses on getting rid of most (and maybe eventually all) of them at a time of its own choosing.
Even “dumb” AI could open door number two.
Yep, no doubt.
I think if an AI had all the legal information and precedent and case information in existence it would be the best lawyer that has ever existed. It could have an almost unlimited number of instances. Hell, the Government could assign one to watch everything every person does from lust to dust.
That would be nice.
Regarding the burger flipper though... I never seen a robot scratch his ass then toss my fries in the bag.
AI the thing with No Intelligence
McDonald’s killed AI ordering because of the bizarre orders ,LOL
You obviously aren't an art lover. That's okay. Most people don't really "get" art.
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