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by manuelmoreale 1201 days ago
I personally wouldn’t say they’re smarter than you. They’re definitely faster. But I believe you, internet stranger, could spend time and resources and produce the same result ChatGPT has produced for you. It would probably take you a lot longer though.
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pixl97 1201 days ago
> could spend time and resources and produce the same result ChatGPT has produced for you. It would probably take you a lot longer though.

Actually no. I have a limited lifespan of which I've already burned half and have to spend at least another 1/3rd of the remaining lifespan sleeping. Not even counting making money to feed and shelter myself.

GPT is already a better translator than I'll ever be in far more languages then I'll ever know. To get better than GPT at any one of these things will require a massive amount of dedicated time for me to do so. It is already superhuman in this sense with capabilities well past all but the most unique translators.

This is the story of John Henry again. Yea, humans are still exceptional and can beat the machine at things, especially if they've had any training in doing so, but we're not sticking with the same steam-powered hammer, we're spending billions on building newer, bigger, faster ones. More and more of humanity will fall behind the machine every day.

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nostromo123 1201 days ago
You should let an AI bot have sex with your significant other when the tech is ripe enough, to avoid burning even more of that precious lifespan on things that a machine can do better than you ;)

Tongue in cheek of course, but if you think like that, nothing is "worth" doing - why learn languages, why run, why climb a mountain...

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pokeypokes 1201 days ago
John Henry wasn't hammering those spikes for fun mate. Many of us (idealistically) work on tech with the goal of freeing us to spend time on things like your examples.
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manuelmoreale 1201 days ago
I don’t think we disagree here. I’m arguing that something like CGPT is not smarter, it just has more time available or rather can do in a short amount of time what would require us years or maybe an entire life.
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