"you will do a fake pointless job just to justify being alive" isn't a bright proposition...

imo, we dont have to worry about it taking our jobs ... though it might cause issues for generation n+1 as it will most likely take over a lot of the entry level stuff which means there is no workforce being trained up to replace the current generation of the workforce when we retire. But that is a problem for short sided companies to deal with years in the future

No, what is most likely going to become a more immediate is GPT's use in social engineering. Both in gaining access to stuff someone shouldn't have (think Nigerian prince scam on steroids) as well as generating a ton of fake content for someone to use to scam a bunch of people on go-fund-me or Kickstarter.

Another interesting aspect is that it is one hell of a translation tool. Not only can it translate between different human languages, but also different computer languages. In the semi near future someone in the medical field is going to unleash it on the human genome (which is much like a programing language ... just not base 2). Stuff could get real interesting real fast in that space.

Agreed. I am concerned about my kids, and their kids now (thanks nobody). We may head to a way that a person cannot do almost anything by itself: without robots, or computers, or whatever tech will arrive, one will be almost unable to produce anything.

@ThoriumBR I mean ... we are almost already there already w/ computers. Lets be real, if a solar flare hit and wiped out all electronics and satellites one one side of the earth ... TONS of people would die. No electrical grid to heat / cool your house (including food), no vehicles to transport people or things, pretty much all water purification would grind to a halt.

Some people wonder if they could survive a zombie apocalypses ... but thats laughable in comparison to an event that really could (and does) happen ever hundred or so years. rntfnd.org/2020/09/01/…

Not even sure which would be worse, being on the side that was hit ... or being on the side that wasn't and attempting to deal w/ your own logistics nightmare while trying to bootstrap the entire other side of the globe.

I believe living on the hit side is gonna be some orders of magnitude worse...

if you live in a small town, it's gonna be rough. If you live in a megacity, it's gonna be hell. Living on Montana, or a small town in Tuscany, or an interior Brazilian city means you can either walk around and gather wood, water from rivers and boil them, plant anything around the city and maybe not starve until external food arrives. Coordinating news will be difficult but possible.

but imagine living in Tokyo, Lagos, Deli, Mexico City or any other multi million population city, and you are dead.

no water means everybody will die in days, violence will spread overnight, social rules will give way to survival of the strongest, those spared by violence will die by dehydration, those surviving dehydration will starve...

@ThoriumBR but imagine the panic riots on the other side. almost as bad as having no food/water.

coordinating anything with more than 30k persons is almost impossible even with time to prepare, if it's a solar storm it's too late, nobody will coordinate anything. lack of reliable news means rumors will spread wildly: government experiment, eugenics, external attack, aliens, whatever the human mind can imagine...

the other side will at least have communications, transport, phone coverage, tv, working water purification, email/sms/IM depending on what you use...

panic can be cured with curfews, starvation cannot

imagine living with all tech dead, all hospitals disabled, only very close range communication (yelling at others), no transportation but walking and bikes, without knowing really what happened and if/when things will get back, no water, no food, no trucks, no cars... and with fires spreading all around and nobody to put them out because there's no water and no way to ask for help

that would make an interesting book...

read "the war of the worlds" it sums it up pretty well.

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