If it's like a nail gun, then it's still problematic, because almost every new piece of tech disproportionately benefits the capitalists. Maybe the number of framing carpenters stays the same, but they're upping output, building houses quicker, and a proportionate rise in wage is doubtful, or at least atypical. The builders and real estate investors profit even more, hurrah!

Even if this all never becomes a Thing, I think it'd be cool to have a university or public-funded LLM unleashed on everything public domain and voluntarily (lawfully) donated libraries and content. Do you think it'd be worth it?

lol now I'm imagining a Trump admin. procedure for "expertise codebase corrections", governing what is allowed to be input when like the executive branch LLM is allowed to assimilate feedback from expert-level critique.

PURPOSE OF CODEBASE CORRECTIONS

  -- TO ASSIST PROGRAM WITH TOP-LEVEL ASSESSMENTS OF HURRICANE SCIENCE AND PREDICTIONS

  APPLICATION

  -- EMERGENCY ALERT INSTRUCTION
  -- FORECASTING
  -- EDUCATION
  -- GLOBAL WARMING INTEGRATION

  PARTICIPANTS

  -- DR. WILLIAMSON, UNIV. FL
  -- DR. NAKITOSHA, TOKYO UNIV.
  -- BILL ACKMAN, BILL ACKMAN
  -- SAM ALTMAN, MULTI-TRILLIONAIRE
  -- DONALD TRUMP, LORD
  -- VIRTUAL SHARPIE, DONALD TRUMP
  -- NUCLEAR BOMB, U.S./DONALD TRUMP

k back to reality. If something good gets put on iPhone, that could be the push towards mass adoption that'd matter. People would get used to using it. Apple's, of course, already way in deep with it financially, too, but hasn't deployed much of anything yet.

Self-driving cars? Too hard of a problem to solve, especially without privatizing infrastructure. NFTs? Right-click "save as" for the digital, seek state-enforceable means of ownership for the physical. Crypto? I have a debit card. This? The only issue I can see is what you've already NAILED, mr. framing carpenter, the legal field. But I still think big parts of this stuff are going to make it into our lives. (Already has, to a degree. The TikTok algo is probably the most successful implementation so far, financially.) Obviously I don't mean only Sora or images, but stuff like accruing or building any type of content hyper-shaped to your tastes, learning a new language, making it code for you, or, apparently, for some people, falling in love with an algorithm and feeling devastated when you're locked out of your profile or your hard drive crashes.

Oof, hey, if you wanna watch it fail, you could try to have it teach you how to play an instrument. That would be content. "LLM, please write a story about a man who asked an LLM to teach him how to play an instrument, but was met with extreme failure." This was pretty good, even without the twist, but my wife called it about halfway into the thing: "They probably made ChatGPT write the ChatGPT episode". Yup. They did.

I really do think people will use this on a massive scale, and pretty quickly. Some jobs will be lost, and some jobs will be created. Not terribly sure how much of each.