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by visarga 1609 days ago
Use it or lose it - this new technology will also be available in open source, easy to use format for everyone to empower their lives, but those who refuse to partake will be at a disadvantage.

It used to be that you needed a large dataset and a custom architecture for each individual task. Now you can use a general model and a few examples, it will catch on much faster on what you want it to do. Sometimes it's just as simple as telling it in free language what the task is.

What took whole departments multiple years to achieve will become something regular people could do. We learned to live with internet and cell phones, we can learn to program AI that is by design especially easy to program.

For example, how easy is it to make an image classifier with CLIP. https://openai.com/blog/clip/

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What if you don't work in IT? So probably 95% of all workers out there?

Is everyone supposed to work in IT in AI-related fields?