nostromo123

Someone who is that involved and desiring to learn will get an A even without help, and someone who is not will not care enough beyond "do my homework for me".

Best to just shoot these pesky meat eaters in the name of saving the planet, right? /s

Sorry to hear your job is so simple it can be automated away, but for the rest of us there's no big danger.

A machine can already run better, fly better, play chess better than me... how does that affect me? Zero.

"Architect systems and database tables from user stories in seconds"...haha, no. This only works for simplistic problems that we got as students to solve on paper during a 2h exam back in the day.

Realistic problem from my own workplace: "Ok, ChatGPT, write clock- cycle exact embedded C code for checking in less than 5ms if firmware on this ARM is working correctly with the sensor described in datasheet.pdf. Detect and implement countermeasures for any EM interference issues due to cable length. Implement it in a generic way so it can work with Atmel and NXP microcontrollers. There is a bug that caused the sensor to sometimes return wrong values when using the system on a Kuka xyz robot, please debug."

... yeah, I'm still waiting.

"A lot of the world is able to walk, so people don't need wheel chair access in buildings". "A lot of the world is male/female, so people don't need made up genders and surgery". ... sounds great, huh?

Anyway, where does this "people don't need X" stop, though? You also don't need oat milk, tofu, soy, peas, etc. to survive.

Let's just go back to foraging for roots and berries and see what population size we can sustain!

Absolutely agree! Well, they had to scramble to spin up something fast, it's the best they could do.

"I agree this probably shouldn't be here..."

And yet, here it is ;) This whole "asked GPT, here's what it said" spiel is getting old already.

Forget AGI, just make a robot that can fold laundry. I'll be here waiting :)

Then I guess I can ethically pirate anything I want, since I'm not "stealing the money from a human creator" anymore, huh?

You're paid more not because what you do is more important, but because many more people can do what your buddy does than what you do.

"They do the same thing you and I do; read the literature and come to a conclusion."

I'm sorry for you if you can't do better than an LLM.

"The park is vibrant and full of kids and families over the day.. dealers don't even annoy you usually if you signal strong non-interest or don't fall into typical buyer group."

Yeah, that's where I want to take my kids, where the "drug dealers don't annoy us if we're not interested"... you must have very high annoyance thresholds.

None of this is "industrial control task", aka "real work".

"Learning facts and trivia was already devalued by everyone having a hyper-encyclopedia in their pockets, this will just extend that."

I hope you don't end up having surgery done by a doctor who has to check a "hyper- encyclopedia" in his pocket because learning facts is supposedly obsolete...