Comment by globular-toast
2 hours ago
Yeah, I think if you're a nice person that people enjoy being around then there will be plenty of opportunities.
Funnily enough, I used to work on pre-LLM natural language processing at an insurance company about 10 years ago. One of the call centre staff quipped about us taking their jobs. I hadn't given it a moment's thought beforehand, but I said something then that I think still stands today. I said that what we are trying to do is automate the boring parts of your job so that you have more time to do the part that really matters: being there, being human, for someone in their time of need.
When my mum died at home this year, my dad called the local GP practice to let someone know and was greeted by a chatbot. This is someone who has just lost their wife of 40 years and doesn't really know what to do. Imagine having to deal with a chatbot in this time. It didn't work and he got frustrated and gave up, exasperated.
I took over but instead called a local hospice charity that had been involved and got straight through to a person. In no more than 60 seconds I had said everything that needed to be said, it was acknowledged with genuine sympathy and the wheels were in motion for the next steps.
This is what we need society to be like. We should use computers for the things they are good at, but we don't need them to be like people, because we have people for that.
Thanks for sharing!
I am so sorry for your loss.
I agree, some things should be automated, something should never be. I think it will take us quite some time to realize which is which, and the consequences involved.
The problem with AI now is that it seems to be taking over all the things nice, and making it harder to appreciate human-made things. It's like being in a museum with 99 AI-generated paintings, and 1 human-made one. Whould would enjoy visiting that museum? You don't even know which one is the human-made one. This is how it feels now, what's the point of creating "hand-made" stuff when it gets lost in a sea of slop? Both parties are upset (creator for not getting attention, viewer for not knowing anymore what is real or not, or what was made and curated by a human or not).
I made a random tweet yesterday, that "the future is offline". I do think we will get fatigue from having access to infinite, hyper-personalized content, so much that we will completely disregard ALL content.
I also lost my 31yo partner to cancer last year, and the only thing she cared most about was being remembered and knowing that she had done something meaningful in her life, that she left some impact on this world. AI is taking many of those opportunities, to make impact.