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    The whole song and dance around GPT is making me nervous. Looks like the need to manually handle equipment is the only thing standing between me and getting replaced by a fuckin script

    • 🏳️‍⚧️ Elara ☭M
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      GPT is very good at solving simple problems and doing simple but tedious things that I hate doing, but every time I try to give it a complex programming or sysadmin problem that it hasn’t seen before, it fails miserably. I don’t think any field that requires complex problem solving is going to be replaced anytime soon.

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        And plenty of jobs involve simple, but tedious actions. Including IT shit.

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      Maybe gpt replacing all jobs involving a computer is what is needed for a revolution in the west.

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          No not ideally, but poor material conditions are the groundwork for radicalization no?

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            You’d think so, but material conditions have been worsening all over the world for years, and all I’m seeing is more fascists cropping up

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      I’m more concerned with an A.I. being misused by capitalists and then turning against humanity.

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        This is an even bigger issue, yes. Seeing how these scripts seem to be very good at solving problems that are given without any concerns a human might have. Wonder if they are already being used for military purposes

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          Autonomous drones have already chosen and assassinated targets several times without human input.

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            Well that’s just filling me with joy and happiness