Did you have similar concerns about your job security as I am seeing expressed everywhere now?
Does it make sense to compare the two? I'm interested in any first-hand experiences, opinions, ideas, etc.
GPT4 is more impressive. But Google...felt better.
Using Google for the first time felt like you were a wizard casting a spell at the library of the world, and then a stack of books showed up in front of you.
GPT4 is so uncanny and difficult to trust it almost feels evil, in comparison. It feels more like early file-sharing services that you knew were going to nuke your computer, eventually.
In those early days of Google, you knew the information you were finding was almost always generated from a passion project being curated by one or more actual human beings without ulterior motives.
GPT4 feels like a solar-powered iPad on the tombstone of the Dead Internet. We've unleashed a probabilistic zombie information demon, and we can't put this back in the ground.
Google was the good friend who always introduced you to people you needed to know, and it's a tragedy that it will never be the same.
Though Google has been a major contributor to my life, now, for the first time I feel like I'm witnessing something similar to what my father saw. I can feel the robots coming, suddenly they are real. A whole future of possibilities is being downloaded. Children that are given a robot when they are born, and who will accompany them during their whole life, an observer, an assistant, learning along, testifying about the child like a parent. In short, people will have a buddy, a digital (best) friend, that feels like a power amplifier, an exoskeleton. A special and legally protected class of robots.
We need a new word, "software 2.0" doesn't cover it. This is it-ware. Because this is it, the defining moment in human history, raising us up into a space faring civilization. The end of our times, it's here. "We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI: a singular consciousness that spawned an entire race of machines".
I can't remember the first Internet search I used. Webcrawler or Excite perhaps, or something earlier. It was quite magical, but part and parcel of the feeling of tremendous freedom and limitless possibilities which came with the early computers, BBSes, and then the Internet. It was an opening up of opportunity.
AI is rather different. Rather than a feeling of freedom, it was one of amusement at the power of the thing, coupled with horror at what it meant for society. But then, I'm 43 this time around.. On reflection it feels like the opposite of the Internet, as so much of what it can do directly nullifies the net.