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Motivation in the pre AI automation era?
How to get a grip on working extremely hard again? I just lost it. As AI is reaching phd lvl reasoning, Microsoft is currently preparing servers to scale AI models by 200 times. 5 Robotics companies in US are competing to release mass-market robots for under 35k in the next 4 years.
If the 65% of all work might be automated in the next 12 years. What is the point of a comeback to an immense work ethic? While knowing that in the 20-year time frame difference between losers and winners might not be so significant? As cheaper goods and services entering the market.
I have a wish to strive and do something significant. But I started to feel that I'm doing the "calculators" work before the invention of a real calculator. If my work doesn’t add much meaning in 5-10 years. what’s the meaning of working before that?
If AI truly displaces 65% of all work, society will not be able to evolve quickly enough to accept that new reality.
You’re going to have a lot of people with no income. No income means lots of banks and landlords not getting paid, means lots of businesses with fewer customers. Some sort of recalibration will be necessary but these things happen in our systems in decades whereas AI will change things in months and years.
If it’s truly as transformative as this, it won’t be to good ends.
This is what I keep saying. Always get downvoted.
I think the initial shift will be catastrophic. We kinda know it’s coming but governments will bury their heads until too late…But they will have to do something or there will be unrest.
Governments (western ones) cannot have tooooo many people in the same boat, you have to keep them divided, but you cannot divide what can no longer be divided.
If you haven't already, you should familiarize yourself with the Gartner hype cycle. While the new AI technology is capable of amazing things, most tech companies are massively overselling its capabilities, and the bubble will eventually burst.
This part
most tech companies are massively overselling its capabilities
should be like this
most tech companies are massively overselling its current capabilities
The bubble bursting is inevitable but so is automation (eventually). The Internet had it's own bubble but it didn't change the fact that it was a massive game changer. AI will be bigger than the Internet.
Just work. It's not here yet, might never be fully here. Don't just go lay in the street just in case it's just around the corner.
I've struggled with this too. You know what though? AI is good enough at Chess that humans will never beat it again, and Chess is more popular than ever. If you want do so something when AI is better, it has to be because you enjoy it or get some intrinsic value out of it. Some times that still require working hard, and I think that's where the motivation needs to come from
As AI is reaching phd lvl reasoning
It's not reaching those levels. Currently it has 0 capability of reasoning. That's why AI is capable of bullshitting you with 100% confidence if you send a message tricky enough, because it's not capable of knowing what it's saying. It just calculates what chain of words has the highest probability of being the most appropriate response. That's also why it can't do math - because it was trained on words and not calculations. Or why it needs to be trained for each language seprately. It's not capable of applying its knowledge from different language and translating it. It's just a technology to repeat words. It doesn't "know" anything.
AI won't do the actual research for you, the only art it can produce is a copy and mix of other art, and it'll never create something new. So if you really wanna do MEANINGFUL work, you don't need to worry about AI. It'll only serve as a tool to do the boring steps for you.
If my work doesn’t add much meaning in 5-10 years. what’s the meaning of working before that?
You think all those people working in sales, offices, sending corporate emails all day do it for the meaning? They do it for money, so they don't end up homeless and starve. Not starving should still be a valid reason to work for you, unless you're from a rich family or something.
What is the point of a comeback to an immense work ethic? While knowing that in the 20-year time frame difference between losers and winners might not be so significant?
Work and work ethic doesn't make you a winner or loser anyway. It's all about the family you're born in.
Why would you work extremely hard in any circumstances? Unless you are a billionaire, your hard work just makes someone else rich.
Find a niche where you make enough money doing something remotely fun, kick back and enjoy the ride. Interesting times are coming, you don't wanna miss them while working.
Dude get a grip in general, we don't have AGI relax jobs aren't going anywhere
Nothing that you stated is guaranteed to bear fruit. Most won’t. 65% of all work will not be automated in 12 years.
For most people, the meaning in their work is that if they don't work, they will not be able to buy things, such as food, and will die of starvation, dehydration, exposure, etc.
If you don't have to work to survive, count yourself among the very lucky few.
nnovation may be difficult to grasp by inference AI due to the inherent nature of innovation. So, maybe becoming competent in some knowledge fields may be relevant...
Did you just say you think AI has attained PHD leeks of reasoning?
It cant even reason at all! Its a fucking copy-paste algorithm, thats it.
I swear, people blindly believing the lie of conmen techbros is going to prolong the period of crisis we are in now single-handedly…