Comment by maxcomperatore

this is my opinion and feel free to debate or whatever.

ai is the end of all knowledge work. phd level intelligence and reasoning is cheap and fast. its so good its economically non viable to NOT leverage it, and then it will be non viable to hire humans instead of orchestating AI. As we approach AGI any person sharp with ai tools and self motivated and with domain knowledge will replace entire teams. I expect huge big tech layoffs. The problem lingers is that no matter if ai cant do your job, it can do the job of a hell lot of people, and if all that people are unemployed and in gigs eventually the economy will collapse, doesn't matter if you are a writer or a HVAC, and see robots if you are the last. The issue isn’t just job loss, but the velocity of change. Capitalism isn’t designed for near-instantaneous obsolescence. Government wont do shit because this is a gazillion dollar industry and also they are still figuring out what's the internet. Jobs wont be created at the same pace they are destroyed, and AI will be able to take on those roles too. Companies will follow what shopify and duolingo did. even the pope is concerned, hence its name. AI will disrupt ALL industries. hell, even ai art is objectively better and cheaper than human art.

This is my opinion. Feel free to discuss or whatever.

> even ai art is objectively better and cheaper than human art.

Ok I’ll bite on this. I think this reflects an incomplete understanding of what art is, and why humans make it. Sure, with enough prior examples and a bajillion tokens, you can reference the likeness of all the greatest artists who ever lived, and create stunning representations. No doubt magical.

But are these LLM-dreamed works better than what humans make? I dunno man, I think it’s a different class entirely. It’s not right to compare the two and say one is objectively better than the other.

I have come to understand that humans create art from feeling, and those gifted humans use their own personal tastes and sensibilities to transform these feelings into a representation. A human artist can generally express why and how they made what they did. They can explain the meanings and symbolism, with deep personal significance.

Art, and most works dreamed from LLMs, does not come from human feeling. It comes from examples, distilled millions of times over. But the feeling is not there.

LLMs do not understand quality. They do not have good taste. However I do feel that a lot of people don’t care about this. People want shortcuts, and most likely that’s what they’ll get, and what will be incentivized.