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Hmm... Perhaps "high income workers" take serious this paper:

"OpenAI publishes paper on the economic impact of GPT-4: Higher income workers most exposed"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11whznb/openai_... https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10130

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Like every other technological advancement in history, people who adopt it will benefit, while those who stick their head in the sand and cry "this is bad", "this will put people out of a job" etc. will get left behind.

Except now Microsoft is sitting between you and the technology.

Basing your future on that is quite a bet.

So just like MS Office, Windows, Photoshop, AutoCAD and thousands of other essential commercial products controlled by a single company or small group of companies. This is not some unique phenomenon.

This is like saying that you can ignore Google because we have DDG and Bing.

> those who stick their head in the sand and cry "this is bad"

Hey, this is me! :-)

I like being able to develop stuff without depending on someone else's computer, on non-free software and on an internet connection.

quietly closes the door muttering "get off my lawn"

Using the same acronym for two different meanings in one abstract doesn’t inspire confidence in their paper.

There's a situation where GPT4 is actually (more than) reasonably good at math and science, which signals ability to create novel, reliable algorithms. Granted, the prompter has to recognize errors and prompt for correction, however this can also be accomplished via adding "double check your work" at the end of the first prompt. Akin to "show your work" when working on proofs.

It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

Interesting. Creativity inspires confidence for me.

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