<story><title>Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?</title><text>I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m the only one who thinks it&amp;#x27;s overrated.&lt;p&gt;Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that&amp;#x27;s why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brap</author><text>Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?&lt;p&gt;As a programmer, I gotta say if you&amp;#x27;re not at all concerned, then either you haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention or you&amp;#x27;re in denial. Sooner or later it&amp;#x27;s coming.</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>In tech and don&amp;#x27;t share your worries. If anything, since release it has proven that 1. it does not have ability to reason logically creatively. 2. it has strong ability to manipulate language to human readable form.&lt;p&gt;If anything, I would say regular office workers are the most threatened, particularly if the jobs revolves around digesting and passing information.</text></item><item><author>ExtremisAndy</author><text>I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creation threatens both. And more and more of these things will be coming online over the coming months and years.&lt;p&gt;So, every time I see it mentioned I feel depressed and sick on the inside.&lt;p&gt;I will say, however, that so far it has actually enhanced my productivity in my current projects, and that’s fine. I just don’t think that its impact will remain so limited for long.&lt;p&gt;Of all the tech that’s been invented, this is the one I fear the most in terms of its negative impact on jobs. Hope I’m wrong!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lolinder</author><text>Or you have been paying attention, understand the technology better than those who buy into the hype, and aren&amp;#x27;t worried because you know that incremental improvements to this tech cannot be a serious threat to your job security because the &lt;i&gt;paradigm&lt;/i&gt; isn&amp;#x27;t capable of replacing you.&lt;p&gt;When my job is at risk it will be because we have AGI, not a better language model, and at that point &lt;i&gt;everyone&lt;/i&gt; is at risk. Worrying about job security in the face of AGI is like worrying about what you&amp;#x27;ll do after your city gets nuked: it&amp;#x27;s unlikely to happen and there&amp;#x27;s nothing you can do if it does.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?</title><text>I am. Every day, there are countless new articles about ChatGPT posted on here. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m the only one who thinks it&amp;#x27;s overrated.&lt;p&gt;Most of the prompt answers are smart sounding bullshit. Maybe that&amp;#x27;s why the headlines never stop - the people who like to make smart sounding bullshit are the ones who love ChatGPT.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>brap</author><text>Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?&lt;p&gt;As a programmer, I gotta say if you&amp;#x27;re not at all concerned, then either you haven&amp;#x27;t been paying attention or you&amp;#x27;re in denial. Sooner or later it&amp;#x27;s coming.</text></item><item><author>Aperocky</author><text>In tech and don&amp;#x27;t share your worries. If anything, since release it has proven that 1. it does not have ability to reason logically creatively. 2. it has strong ability to manipulate language to human readable form.&lt;p&gt;If anything, I would say regular office workers are the most threatened, particularly if the jobs revolves around digesting and passing information.</text></item><item><author>ExtremisAndy</author><text>I am definitely tired of the topic, but I’ll be perfectly honest as to the reason why: I am genuinely afraid of its impact on my career. My career has been sort of a combination of tech and education, and this (admittedly impressive) creation threatens both. And more and more of these things will be coming online over the coming months and years.&lt;p&gt;So, every time I see it mentioned I feel depressed and sick on the inside.&lt;p&gt;I will say, however, that so far it has actually enhanced my productivity in my current projects, and that’s fine. I just don’t think that its impact will remain so limited for long.&lt;p&gt;Of all the tech that’s been invented, this is the one I fear the most in terms of its negative impact on jobs. Hope I’m wrong!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaycopter</author><text>&amp;gt; Sure. But will that be the case 5-10 years from now?&lt;p&gt;Not with language models. A language model can parse natural language, and with enough training data, give out what it thinks the answer is based on the data it was trained with. It is not General AI.&lt;p&gt;It cannot reason a solution for a problem that had an unknown answer. It won&amp;#x27;t be able to reflect logically on a context to foresee problems within this context. It cannot have a meaningful conversation. It won&amp;#x27;t be able to understand that one of the things it &amp;quot;knows&amp;quot; was incomplete, untrue, or just plain wrong, and fix itself.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a powerful tool, a game-changing tool. Perhaps as game-changing as the advent of computers, internet, or wireless communication. But it still won&amp;#x27;t replace humans.&lt;p&gt;General AI for now is science fiction. Perhaps this is unfortunate. I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind an AI that can replace humans, even if I too am made obsolete with it.</text></comment>