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Or maybe you did it because you had ideas for things computers ought to be able to do, and needed to get those ideas into the computer?

Yes. I find it really interesting to consider what the machines do and will think of as intrinsically interesting to them. Will they develop their own theories of beauty, mathematical and otherwise?

Brynjolfsson: an AI “job apocalypse” is unlikely.

Also Brynjolfsson: It will likely impact entry-level jobs. There are huge implications for business and the economy, including some increases in living standards, but also, potentially, job disruption. We must act now to address this gap. We can’t just sit back and wait for the tsunami to hit us.

Also Brynjolfsson: If companies don’t hire people at the base of the pyramid, then they’re not going to have those people later when they need them. Now, AI can do a lot of those basic tasks. Some companies, such as law firms and investment banks, are not hiring as many people at the base. In the short run, I can see that logic, but, in a few years, where are they going to have the most experienced people? So they need to think harder about that.

So there's that. Basically what he's hoping is if everyone does what he recommends re: regulation and policy, then maybe the job apocalypse will become unlikely.

Yeah, came here to see if anyone still remembers lmgtfy. Back to the future, I guess!

Sorry, this article's argument just doesn't hold water. Yes, we want Claude to write "the best text" and having its word choice even very slightly varied could arguably be construed as "not the best." But "best" is highly subjective, always has been. Claude has never, and will never, write what _you_ consider the best version of a piece of text. It has many choices, influenced by all kinds of random, context-dependent weights and environmental settings. Slightly tweaking weights to prefer certain phrasings might even tilt it toward your idea of "best."

Exactly the opposite for me. I've gotten into a whirlwind of productivity, working through my lifetime backlog of "somebody out to do thing X" — now I'm doing ALL of them (all open source naturally), plus parametric 3d printing, hardware projects and more.

The enshittification begins.

Exactly the same thing happened when Google appeared on the scene. (Not that this makes it any better!)