I keep thinking about and using GPT-4. The implications. Mane.
- You know how we all mostly start our careers by being someone’s assistant? AI just took that job that allows us to get a foot in the door. What now? Only sleazy bosses will do everything to have a cute blonde to assist them? Good thing is they starve to death, there’s that.
- My mom was an independent accountant for 40 years with the help of one assistant (yeah) and 2 computers. Accounting is mostly about applying latest laws/rules to businesses and crunching numbers. AI can do that basically now. My mom wouldn’t have a sustainable income if she had started in 2023 instead of 1983.
- My ex-wife wrote press releases for a living. A good career in 2009. 95% AI’d and auto-generated now.
- You know how visual art is a huge asset requiring dozens of artists to draw and design constantly in game development? Cool. Have you seen the quality of output from MidJourney? Yeah. Way, way better than even 12 months ago.
- Sound design and music? You still need a “prompt engineer” and it’s still rough, but for how long?
- Therapists and counselors? No one can compete with 24/7, wonderful assistance. No one.
It’s moving so freaking fast, TECH people don’t even have the time to grasp progress, let alone non-tech folks.
Y’all are not ready. And of course, AI is getting better every single day. Sundays too. At night. Yeah!
It’s not the end of the world scenarios that interest me. It’s the fact that due to this rapid acceleration in the continuous shift that we’re experiencing in how we live, we have the very real possibility to turn everything around and create a healthy world for all. That is such a rare opportunity and occurrence in history.
I’m almost losing sleep over this.