My summary: we need to democratize all powerful institutions like yesterday. Seriously y’all we’re running out of time
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
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.
