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If the benefits were shared across humanity, that could bring us closer to utopia. My worry is that we’ll instead end up with a handful of even wealthier billionaires and millions of people out of work.
Effectively yes, in the current forms. Those professions will likely evolve, but the traditional forms (ie writing code by hand, writing law filings by hand etc) are all dead.
there will still be writing initial and incremental prompts by hands, until and if LLMs surpass humans in all intellectual functions.
this is more likely to democratize the legal system by reducing the cost of a good legal team
It seems much more probable to me that these LLMs will make good things worse than that they will make bad things better.
As it stands, it seems far more likely to result in a wonderful life for a few, and an absolute catastrophe for most.
Same argument for plumbers. Everyone always jokes about what a good time it is to be a plumber. But what happens when all the software engineers turn to plumbing? Suddenly it's not such a good time to be a plumber anymore.
They also openly tell you what they are afraid of btw: collective worker power. something that is massively lacking in our industry, although i feel like it would be one of the easiest industries to unionize in terms of # of workers.
Interesting interview I just watched about how powerful and dangerous these "wishes" or "prophecies" are especially in the hands of the ultra-wealthy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR7grHa1NR0
In the real world, lawyers submit detailed bills and their clients examine them. If you don’t, that’s on you.