Anyone else witnessing a panic inside NLP orgs of big tech companies?
Wow - this is just wild. I&#x27;ve seen lots of arguments around &quot;AI won&#x27;t take everyone&#x27;s job, it will just open up new areas for new jobs.&quot; Even if you take that with the benefit of the doubt (which I don&#x27;t really think is warranted):<p>1. You don&#x27;t need to take everyone&#x27;s job. You just need to take a shitload of people&#x27;s jobs. I think a lot of our current sociological problems, problems associated with wealth inequality, etc., are due to the fact that lots of people no longer have competitive enough skills because technology made them obsolete.<p>2. The state of AI progress makes it impossible for humans in many fields to keep up. Imagine if you spent your entire career working on NLP, and now find GPT-4 will run rings around whatever you&#x27;ve done. What do you do now?<p>I mean, does anyone think that things like human translators, medical transcriptionists, court reporters, etc. will exist as jobs at all in 10-20 years? Maybe 1-2 years? It&#x27;s fine to say &quot;great, that can free up people for other thing&quot;, but given our current economic systems, how are these people supposed to eat?<p>EDIT: I see a lot of responses along the lines of &quot;Have you seen the bugs Google&#x2F;Bing Translate has?&quot; or &quot;Imagine how frustrated you get with automated chat bots now!&quot; Gang, the <i>whole point</i> is that GPT-4 blows these existing models out of the water. People <i>who work in these fields</i> are blown away by the huge advances in quality of output in just a short time. So I&#x27;m a bit baffled why folks are comparing the annoyances of ordering at a McDonald&#x27;s automated kiosk to what state-of-the-art LLMs can do. And reminder that the first LLM was only created in 2018.