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I must confess to getting a little sick of seeing the endless stream of articles about this (along with the season finale of Succession and the debt ceiling), but what do you folks think? Is this something we should all be worrying about, or is it overblown?
EDIT: have a look at this: https://beehaw.org/post/422907
I'm actually very optimistic and here's why - it changes education and research completely.
Generally when learning new things the initial step is the hardest. Where to start and what to learn is extremely overwhelming and we basically got rid of that. It's amazing.
I'm a fullstack engineer and honestly I feel that with LLM I have the tools to switch to basically any career I'd want to. If AI takes away coding then I'd happily let it build stuff for me and pivot somewhere else. The things get a bit weirder for people who can't do that but that's not a new issue - we already have people who need assistance and if anything we should be able to support them better now.
@spoonful @hedge I look at LLMs very much with the lens of accessibility as well. There’s a lot of things an AI can do for you that helps with various developmental disorders which people can’t do on their own, and having an AI take over some of the more difficult aspects could really be a game changer (and already has been for me)!