There are a lot of people still processing how LLMs are going to affect the future of work and generally the sentiment I am getting is somewhat negative. People are worried about their jobs - which I totally get. With new things it can be hard to see where things are going, and the speed of change is thus far unprecedented. I've gone deep before on this but I'm going to stay concise for this one. If you are worried about your job this is what I would say to you... Generally, technology and most commerce center around the thesis that it is valuable to reduce human suffering. Machine learning, transformers, and the rest do actually reduce human suffering. These things have cut out a lot of toil for a lot of people, BUT that toil used to be a job... AND it was a comfortable, well-paying, white-collar job, codifying things and solving little puzzles. Things that were highly codified can now be spit out quickly by a machine. Code, the law, statistics, building codes, medical knowledge, etc…
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