Artificial Intelligence

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As a programmer, I’m really starting to get the feeling that we’re heading into the equivalent of the industrial revolution for my job. I feel like software craft will be replaced by very generic software produced en-masse by these AIs. Quality will be okay. It will be cheap. Software is becoming a commodity. We’re not there yet but if the current speed keeps up, we’re really not that far away.

I’m not sure how I feel about it. I really really love my job as I’ve been learning and doing it the last 10 or so years. I like thinking about every line of code I write. I don’t want to become an AI overseer. I don’t want to work in a team of AI overseers. And on another angle, I definitely don’t want the Silicon Valley bros to hold the means of production. The bro-geoisie, if you will.

But I’m also.. impressed? I like the empowerment this could bring, allowing almost anyone to get started into a fairly technical field that used to require quite a bit of things to learn? And in the grand scheme of thing, maybe more industrial pigeon-gray boring-but-working software isn’t too bad?

I estimate I have about 5 years to figure out if I want to stay in this career, or to make the switch to something else entirely. Interesting times.

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This is a great thread (second post after the article I posted first for context), especially for anyone with familiarity with screen readers. I use NVDA for accessibility testing but have some experience with JAWS, and so this was extra amusing given that fact:

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Comedically stupid. I cannot.

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This is ghoulish:

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing 'reviewed' by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing 'reviewed' by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.605×717 90.5 KB

I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene. It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAl - https://Inkd.in/eXZB6TY8
I don't know where to start with this but... Grammerly is now offering "expert review" of your work by living and dead academics. Yes, dead ones - without anyone's explicit permission it's creating little LLMs based on their scraped work and using their names and reputations. Obscene. It may be possible to opt out of having YOUR work used to train genAl - https://Inkd.in/eXZB6TY81206×1536 251 KB

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Wanna bet this changes inside of five years? As soon as Hollywood and other media companies start pumping out more AI based work they’ll organize a lobby to fight for this, and they’ll get it.

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