[EGreg]

Anyway, the best engineer for ChatGPT prompt can be ChatGPT itself.

People seem to think that “automation will create new jobs”, but in the age or AI, those job opprtunities will be very temporary as the companies making the AI automate that thin layer.

Similarly, people think that humans will control AIs. That’s a bit quaint, a bit like humans controlling a corporation. The thin layer of “control” can be easily swapped out and present an improvement in the market, so that the number of totally autonomous (no human in the loop) workflows will grow.

That can include predictive policing with Palantir (thanks Peter Thiel!), autonomous killbots in war etc. Seeing how reckless companies have been in releasing the current AI in an arms race, I don’t see how they would be restrained in a literal arms race of slaughterbot swarms and panopticon camera meshes.

PS: I remember this exact phase when computers like Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov. For a while he and others advocated “centaurs” — humans collaborating with computers. But the last decade hardly anyone will claim that a system with humans in the loop can beat a system that’s fully automated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess