Comment by ncr100
3 days ago
Is Gen AI helping to put us humans in touch with the reality of being human? vs what we expect/imagine we are?
- sycophancy tendency & susceptibility
- need for memory support when planning a large project
- when re-writing a document/prose, gen ai gives me an appreciation for my ability to collect facts, as the Gen AI gizmo refines the Composition and Structure
In a lot of ways, indeed.
Lots of people are losing their minds with the fact that an AI can, in fact, create original content (music, images, videos, text).
Lots of people realizing they aren’t geniuses, they just memorized a bunch of Python apis well.
I feel like the collective realization has been particularly painful in tech. Hundreds of thousands of average white collar corporate drones are suddenly being faced with the realization that what they do isn’t really a divine gift, and many took their labor as a core part of their identity.
>create original content (music, images, videos, text)
Remixing would be more accurate then "original"
Right, that’s one of the stories people tell themselves. Everything every human has ever created is a remix. That’s what creativity is…
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Skills is simply the amalgamation of smaller conceptual chunks.
Memorizing a bunch of Python API is simply part of building your skill as a programmer.
Some skills are more mechanical and easier to replicate than others. Programming is a mechanical skill, but many coders long thought of themselves as uniquely gifted “artists”, and this whole LLM stuff is really touching a nerve on them
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