My summary: we need to democratize all powerful institutions like yesterday. Seriously y’all we’re running out of time
also, there is a huge gap between explaining a joke and writing one. I don’t think we’re especially close to AI being able to write good jokes. and there’s an even bigger gap between writing a joke and writing an article, writing an article and writing a book, writing a book and being able to choose a topic for the book, and all of that and, yknow… consciousness.
The particular model that example is from can solve math story problems at about the level of an average 9-12 year old. How many jobs can a bunch of average 9-12 year olds replace? A few I guess, they could do tech support or something. On the other hand Dalle-2 can do top notch graphic design among other things, it could currently replace a whole lot of jobs. Did I mention this tech is getting better and more capable every year and the rate at which it’s doing so is increasing?
capitalists’ rate of profit would plummet and we’d have a world revolution
i know marx said it, but marx didn’t actually say this