I tried using AI. It scared me.

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Crypto and the metaverse aren't the future. AI is.
I just wanted to fix my email.
I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis
Everything is about to change
ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later.
ChatGPT is 2023's Napster.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:07 I just wanted to fix my email
2:39 Gmail's label system sucks
5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code
7:36 It can't be that good, right?
11:31 Everything is going to change
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@TomScottGo Год назад

It's an opinion piece this week! Been a while since I've done one of these. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

@triangulator01 Год назад

tom scott

@bolnol Год назад

How was this pinned 5 days ago?

@Sophiebryson510 Год назад

5 days ago?

@lucaaoooo Год назад

Im poor

@minorii24 Год назад

5 days ago…

@BudreauxTheKid5022 Год назад

It’s lowkey terrifying being in college trying to plan what I want to do not knowing the world I’m heading into

@abyssaljam441 Год назад

So I'm about to graduate with a job in naval architure. And I feel like ow god, how many mechanical engineers are going to be needed in 10 years.

@linecraftman3907 Год назад

@@abyssaljam441 robots are expensive due to resources needed to build them, meat on the job turning knobs and bolts are probably not going away for a while

@wilthomas Год назад

if it's any comfort, it's always been that way. if it seems otherwise, it's just because you have the benefit of hindsight.

@N0N0111 Год назад

The technology sector is rapidly changing, all others will slowly follow that are attached to it.

@dcarbs2979 Год назад

People mine and Tom's age were like that too. Our schooling was in an analogue world for a digital one that began to exist almost exactly at the time we entered the workplace. Our life training was literally in the wrong world for that time.

@ChokyoDK Год назад

"Tom Scott tries to predict the future, 2023, colorized." In a few years Tom should do a prediction compilation and see how many he got right.

@zenthr Год назад

He won't, we'll have an autonomous system make the video in his stead.

@Californ1a Год назад

He kind of already did that - "Ten years ago, I predicted 2022. Did I get it right?"

@vrclckd-zz3pv Год назад

@@zenthr Virtual copy of his head. I hope.

@marc_frank Год назад

colorized? vr-ified

@scientistbird Год назад

Relatedly, check the "Predictions for 2022" (or other years) by Astral Codex Ten for this style of work

@atom_zero5413 Год назад

I feel, like a 3d artist, that my days might be numbered. Companies wouldn't skip a beat if they could replace artists with an algorithm. I hope I'm wrong. I actually love what I do...

@Boojyman Год назад

Unfortunately you're correct, along with coders, authors, architects, humans...

@poopface011 Год назад

maybe in the long term, but before that the tools that execute your vision will change and become a lot more powerful.

@atom_zero5413 Год назад

@@poopface011 that part as well yes. Silver linings 😆

@dev7615 Год назад

Depends on the people running the company

@gmaxh4549 Год назад

There is an IA already that makes 3d game assets

@BlackGryph0n Год назад

12:36 weird question... but do you listen to Weird Al? You listed the exact same music downloading websites and in the exact same order as Al Yankovic does in "Don't Download This Song".

@Wingtrois 11 месяцев назад

Yes he did! Check the very end of the video’s description. He literally mentioned that!

@solicoli 10 месяцев назад

once in a while..... maybe you will feel the urge..... to break international copyright law.....

@PsychologicalApparition 4 месяца назад

aw Soulseek gets no love :( Limewire was evil.

@toywang7784 3 месяца назад

he definitely does as he mentioned Al in his previous copyright related video

@gustymaat7011 15 дней назад

Don't steal this book

@jackeea_ Год назад

It's weird that 10 years ago, people typing into Google "can you please tell me what the weather will be like this week thank you" was seen as weird and not appropriate, because why would you talk to your search engine? But reading the transcript of the conversation between Tom and ChatGPT, that's how it talks back to you...

@stitcherlives Год назад

It's only because it's designed to mimic our conversations. It did not come up with conversation as we know completely on its own.

@Bryophytan Год назад

@@stitcherlives as Tom said: word prediction based on humans data

@koharaisevo3666 Год назад

@@stitcherlives The point is why they don't program Google search like this 10 years ago, because they CAN'T.

@matheusdecastrocarvalho5370 Год назад

Years ago, my grandpa used to ask thinks like this to google

@linuxstreamer8910 Год назад

chatgpt is like a parrot who talk it know how to get the right reaction but it does not know what it says it can't it only is using machine learning that was learned by giving it a curated list of what to learn from & what not

@claymorexl Год назад

I remember chatbots being a total joke. The last six months have been equal parts exciting, confusing, and disturbing.

@Hyperion4K Год назад

buckle up for the next six 😂

@dylanholm9995 Год назад

@@Hyperion4K and now imagine where we’ll be by 2030…

@julianshepherd2038 Год назад

You think you did but you are a bot

@ianwells7916 Год назад

"[...] exciting, confusing, and disturbing." That is how one describes what 'terrifying' means, yes.

@flyingduck91 Год назад

they so extremely funny tho

@AdamGaffney96 6 месяцев назад

If nothing else, I love that this video is how I discovered that Gmail labels don't just work like folders.

@Japanese_Made_Easy_Podcast Год назад

You're not wrong. This is the beginning of a major shift. As a person with no coding skills, I was not able to get ChatGPT to come up with the correct code to make a very simple, but functional indicator for a program called MT4. It said it could code in the required language, but no luck. So, I think it takes a human with coding skills, to be able to evaluate the output and makes fixes as you did.

@didiervandendaele4036 11 месяцев назад

Programming is both a art and a science. ChatGPT helps the programmer with repetitive tasks but can not entirely create an app made of millions of code lines ! The prompt for this app would contain thousands of lines ! But prompt engineering is now sought and pay well ($ 200 000 per year) 😮😊

@user-tj5nk7lb8l 10 месяцев назад

@@didiervandendaele4036 only for this year, next year ur toast

@tylerpeterson4726 6 месяцев назад

I think the big difference is that now the barrier to producing code in a new programming language is much reduced. I know how to program in Python, but I don't know JavaScript and CSS that well. Now that I've been working on a web app I need those languages for my front end. ChatGPT can create a program that gets me most of the way there. If there's an issue with the syntax, then I'm going to take a long time to notice the issue, syntax is what I'm trying to get ChatGPT to do for me, but I can assure myself the flow of logic is correct because I learned about generic programming topics like algorithms and data structures in Python, but are equally applicable to all programming languages.

@TheRealOtakuJoe Год назад

When a Tom Scott video is longer than 6 minutes you know gets going to be deep.

@minorii24 Год назад

Over 10 minutes*

@matttzzz2 Год назад

"gets going to be"

@Wuptidoo Год назад

If a Tom Scott video is deep, and I am learning while watching am I then Deep Learning?

@SonOfMuta Год назад

Except this video is of inconsequential nothingness

@Patrick.Howie. Год назад

When a Tom Scott video is deep you know it's going to be longer than 6 minutes

@SmallAdvantages Год назад

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” - Douglas Adams

@shadowjuan2 Год назад

Interesting way of viewing. I would tweak it a little and say that the dread can start way before 35. I’m 27, my sister 25 we are both not viewing it as something exciting, at least not for what it represents to the world.

@Razumen Год назад

I'm older than 35 and find it very exciting. But I also grew up when at the start of computers becoming a thing, and the internet, and smartphones, so maybe I'm more adjusted to change. I understand that some people find it threatening in terms of their livelihoods, but in most ways I think those fear are largely overstated. Life isn't static, we always have to adapt and change to new things in order to thrive-no matter how old we are.

@rgemail Год назад

@@shadowjuan2 In theory, it can represent a future where humans no longer have to toil their entire lives in thankless, repetitive jobs, where value can be created for next to nothing by machines that have no aspirations outside of their tasks, and distributed to the population as a whole. We've already passed the point where automation creates more wealth than a country needs - we just allow it to be hoarded by individuals instead of given to the humans who enabled it. Exactly how dystopian or utopian society becomes will have something to do with luck and a lot to do with how easily people allow themselves to be scared into siding with the hoarders, and how many of the rest vote.

@seededsoul Год назад

Tom Scott is about 35.

@88RangeRoverClassic Год назад

@@Razumen the tech is semi ok as long as the power lies in the hand of honest humans.

@SJMediaVR 3 месяца назад

I know Tom has Flown into the sunset, but i would find it very interesting to see a commentary video from Tom about Ai now a year later after this. Love this channel and everything about it

@bhyat 2 месяца назад

especially after Sora launch yesterday

@SJMediaVR 2 месяца назад

oh hell yea @@bhyat

@Kristina-oo4en 21 час назад

True! Especialy after gpt 4-o launch yesterday!

@diegocrusius Год назад

I have this feeling that every time some new tech marvel arrives its just to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

@down-to-earth-mystery-school Год назад

The digital divide has been an issue for several decades, I think this could make that worse

@shivabreathes 3 месяца назад

Really? I would have thought that many of the now available technologies have actually reduced that gap, in some ways, now everyone including even a homeless person can have an advanced smartphone in their hand, whereas previously this was out of the question.

@bobosaurus331 3 месяца назад

@@shivabreathesa homeless person can afford a phone over £1,000?

@letterman6546 3 месяца назад

You don't have to pay 1000 £ for a smartphone. There are smartphones now that work well and are cheap.

@slugintub634 3 месяца назад

@@bobosaurus331 Most homes cost more than £1,000.

@scottmanley Год назад

I remember Napster..... I worked there.

@JackRannoch Год назад

It's amazing how quickly they went the way of the dodo after the settlement, while nowadays we can still intensively torrent without issue using different clients.

@MogoPrime Год назад

Wow! I imagine very few can say as much; how large did Napster grow as a company before being sued into the dirt?

@260Xander Год назад

Wow that's quite an item to be able to put on your resume

@flubadubdubthegreat1272 Год назад

Hello earth to Scott

@Jawst Год назад

I'll never forget when my ex accidentally deleted all of my music I downloaded over about 3 years! I actually cried! With a 56k modem it took thousands of hours to download them

@moog_octavia Год назад

the fact that you can reason with the code and point out its errors and it will fix them is both fascinating and terrifying to me

@hynori1819 Год назад

how most senior feels but it took 3 days for the interns to fix it instead of chatgpt instantly finding the error and fix it.

@jeremykothe2847 Год назад

It can still easily get stuck in a situation where it doesn't understand, and "flip flops" between two incorrect solutions.

@Failzz8 Год назад

@@jeremykothe2847 Yea, but will that still be the case in 2030? 2024? Maybe next month even? The second it can get itself "unstuck", the potential becomes unimaginable.

@MassDefibrillator Год назад

It doesn't "fix" them, no. What it does it just keep spitting out new possibilities. It's up to the user to define which possibility it stops at.

@purpledragon8187 Год назад

Exactly

@jaidengulati3669 4 месяца назад

14:06 "In a few years, I'll still be working like this" straight made me emotional

@Vagolyk 9 месяцев назад

For Google to mess up sorting in their own app it is both ironic and concerning. I'm guessing they won't ever adhere to their original, expected design.

@BobnWeaveFC Год назад

"Maybe Siri and the Google Assistant are going to become the things they were always promised to be." I have a feeling this quote is going to age like fine wine.

@RaptorFromWeegee Год назад

...Heres some information that might help you with what you're looking for

@maybenexttime164 Год назад

Alexa still has a single digit IQ

@sjoerd7512 Год назад

Does Microsoft make those assistants yet? They invested heavily in OpenAI I believe

@davedreher9254 Год назад

@@sjoerd7512 Cortana is about to get a new brain

@nauka7565 Год назад

@@sjoerd7512 Bing Chat on waitinglist rn

@LukeMaximoBell1 Год назад

I love Tom Scott's dedication to do a one take for each segment. It's very difficult for those who haven't done it before.

@henrikoldcorn Год назад

You should watch Lindybeige; he does one take per video.

@mntucket7410 Год назад

Teleprompters make it a lot easier. I hate the vlogging trend of jump cuts. Tom's style is very much the opposite and it screams authenticity, I trust that he knows what he's talking about because he can riff on it non stop. I know he's a brilliant human being but I do think he uses a teleprompter, that's not a bad thing though.

@wolfferoni Год назад

@@mntucket7410 They definitely do, but it's still very difficult to read without stumbling on words or pausing too long while using inflections at the right time and all the other things that make the reading and video seamless. The longer the video, the harder it is. He's been doing this for many years now and he's got it down really well

@LukeMaximoBell1 Год назад

@@mntucket7410 Yeh, I think he might. But he does it in a way where he could just be speaking off the cuff. @TomScottGo do you use a teleprompter or is it all off the cuff?

@LukeMaximoBell1 Год назад

@@henrikoldcorn Maybe he just really hates editing. Haha

@TheUluxian Год назад

At one point in my life, I would amaze people with the story of how the university computer I operated had switched over from cardboard punchcards to magnetic tape as a storage medium, because we were at the cutting edge of technology. Nowadays people are amazed by that story because I can remember that far back into the distant past....

@Mark-ef7pi 9 месяцев назад

Going back 15 years I've speculated that the next step up from OOP would be coding in regular language.

@thedarkone246 Год назад

I had a dream that aliens were invading, and they announced this by kidnapping Tom and forcing him to make a video. So when I saw "Everything is about to change" I had to remind myself to actually watch the video before panicking.

@HeavyMetalMouse Год назад

"I'm Tom Scott and I'm on the bridge of Gleiss Colony Ship Z'rrak!thun. I am almost certainly mispronouncing that."

@1bluecat962 Год назад

6:26

@ardnys35 Год назад

that's a lovely dream

@Ramonatho Год назад

@@HeavyMetalMouse "I'm Tom Scott and I'm standing inside the Space Hulk Alethros." "Tom no!"

@mech____ Год назад

have you seen the news?? that wasn't a dream..

@leafar4249 Год назад

My pit in the stomach moment was yesterday when my mother, who is not a big tech at all, easily won an argument against my sister about whether or not to allow the dog on the bed. by asking chat gpt for good arguments and comebacks. my sister, who did not realised what was happening was complettly flabargasted and left speachless.

@oh_finks Год назад

using chatgpt to win an argument is like using a hacked client to win in bedwars. I do it frequently.

@FutureDeep Год назад

Was the dog allowed on the bed?

@ArifRWinandar Год назад

To be fair the same thing could be done with google, even if it takes a bit longer and involves more reading.

@jonaut5705 Год назад

@@FutureDeep we must know

@supernenechi Год назад

And?? Was the dog allowed on the bed? Why or why not???

@lawman3966 Год назад

I've long been skeptical of the contention that new machine functionality won't eliminate jobs but will merely make current employees more productive. Greater productivity from each employee clearly leads to needing fewer employees for the same task. e.g. automated telephone switchboards may have initially just made operator jobs easier, but they eventually replaced operators. (Have you met a telephone switchboard operator lately?)

@alexharrison2743 3 месяца назад

Exactly this. Funnily enough, it reminds of a Frankie Boyle joke - 'in a capitalist society, technology isn't going to make life better - instead of earning good money as a sex worker, that same person will instead be earning minimum wage cleaning the c*m-grates of a hundred sex robots'. If technology makes our jobs easier/does our jobs for us, the powers that be will just see that as a reason not to pay us anything.

@GamePlays_1230 Месяц назад

You just contradicted yourself If fewer employees are needed then you have just eliminated jobs

@colinburgess7728 Год назад

you're a smart guy tom. if things change, you will change with them. something similar has happened to me a few times in my 72 years, and i was lucky/clever enough to jump ship, roll with the punches, or whatever cliche/metaphor you like, and find a new direction. not always easy, but the best things aren't. Courage mon frere😀

@nidungr3496 Год назад

Sucks to struggle for 10 years and any time I've "made it", something happens within 6 months to lose it again. Meanwhile other people are like why are you trying so hard, just get the job I did and you can do the same thing for 30 years. Awesome.

@FragEightyfive Год назад

About 20 years ago I was taking a programming class and had a conversation with the professor about how cool it would be to be able to just tell the computer what you are trying to do, and it does it. He said that would be impossible to code a program to do that because it would have to understand your language and dialect. The future is now.

@keirfarnum6811 Год назад

I have wished that computers would be like in Star Trek and we could just tell it to do things and it would do them. Some thing seem like they should be simple, but they aren’t. A number of years ago, I was going to put a bunch of folders full of articles on CDs; a task that I thought would be easy. But then I discovered that a bunch of the articles had names that were too long and they all had to be re-saved with shorter titles before burning on CDs. It would have been so much easier to just tell the computer to find those articles, shorten the titles, and burn to CDs.

@theexchipmunk Год назад

@@keirfarnum6811 Well, we are not far off from that. Give it a few years and the newest versions of speech assistents are going to be frightening good.

@matschbirne5363 Год назад

A programming language is literally the way to tell the computer what to do. The problem with that is, that the computer dies what you tell him and not what you mean.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Год назад

He wasn't wrong, they still can't understand language and dialect. It's only that processing power, storage, connectivity, and bandwidth over the internet has become so much exponentially larger and relatively cheaply available that a program can now pull from a massive data set, run calculations based on given parameters and by probability and past failures (that it was told was failures) can produce what most humans ( by their recorded "that's correct" responses to it's output) most likely expect based on given parameters.

@Theutus2 Год назад

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

@tomkandy Год назад

I went onto chatGPT and got it to write a simple powershell script to find the sizes of folders and it did a workmanlike job of it, coming up with one that did the job, but slowly. I wasn't impressed. Then I asked it to find a quicker way of doing it, and it correctly used a hash table making it about 10x quicker. That was when I realised how important this is.

@minorii24 Год назад

Oh god it’s learning

@realityveil6151 Год назад

@@fios4528 Workmanlike. Means basic and straightforward.

@wastingyourtime05 Год назад

@@fios4528 WORKmanlike

@llortaton2834 Год назад

problem is it steals from other script and it doesnt know where the information came from, plagiarized work with 0 accountability

@northyegarden Год назад

@@fios4528 I also read it as womanlike. its hard being dyslexic. ChatGPT have made my life so much easier now.

@uncletiggermclaren7592 Год назад

Wow. I was thinking "Looks VERY like the coast of New Zealand" just before you said that it was. For people who might be interested, the pair of birds @ 11:30 are endemic New Zealand variable oystercatchers. They are no longer rare or endangered, and are common all over New Zealand, shore birds over the full length of our 2600 mile extent, 12 degrees of latitude. They are interesting primarily because they have widely variable plumage, which follows no easily identifiable pattern. They are all the same species but their colouring and even the size of their feathers varies so much that they were divided into three or even five sub-species originally. I know one kind of random thing about them, they are eatable. I actually knew people who had eaten them before they were made protected in 1922, who said something like "Well, they were not GOOD eating, but times were tough".

@daemonknight460 11 месяцев назад

Hahaha great sidetrack!

@Tekay37 Год назад

Watching this video just 1 month later hits different. I'll try to remember coming back in a year to remind me how quick that process was.

@Eebie_Jeebies 3 месяца назад

It’s been 10 months at least since the comment

@Tekay37 3 месяца назад

@@Eebie_Jeebies openai hat mit "Sora" gerade Text-zu-Video angekündigt, mit schon fast fotorealistischen Videos. Es geht unfassbar schnell.

@James-wh5vf 2 месяца назад

Watching this days after Sora was announced also hits different

@sabikikasuko6636 Год назад

"That horror, that dread is that in a couple of years, my world is about to change. And despite everything, I will still want my emails to be in folders" The sheer power of that sentence, it's unbridled. You put into words what I couldn't. The Dread of Change.

@SirWussiePants Год назад

Exactly! This sentence reminds me of how generations work. Millennials pick on boomers for being stuck in the past. Gen Z picks on Millennials for being stuck in the past. Gen Alpha will pick on Gen Z for being stuck in the past. Some day Gen Beta will pick on Alphas. Change is the way of the world but we dont change as quickly. This sentence alone encapsulates politics and business in a beautifully succinct way

@ThePawsOfDeception Год назад

Neophobia is, ironically, not a new thing.

@albertjordan3249 Год назад

The only thing I hate more than change, is when things stay the same!

@coolsunsgoldenclassics Год назад

I think it's more like the dread of a very specific change for instance, when was the last time you were just randomly out and ran into a friend because they just happen to frequent the same places you do because you share their interests?

@luit2tinke Год назад

The problem is just that we don't know yet whether the changes will be improvements or not. That's what's important: Are changes improvements or not?

@bonelesswatermelon420 Год назад

I feel like we've finally entered one of Tom's futures. Not THE future, but A future.

@arcbyte1264 Год назад

that sent a chill down my spine..

@TomaszRyszkowski Год назад

I see you are a person of culture

@erkinalp Год назад

Brexit happened, and Scotland is trying to secede and join the EU, as described in the Social Credit System clip.

@photoo848 Год назад

Is it the future where brain nanobots delete the 20th century?

@JaredJeyaretnam Год назад

Praying nobody invents Earworm…

@papplman 11 месяцев назад

The biggest problem I see coming out of this is that people (especially kids) are gonna learn ways to not think for themselves, and creativity as a human quality is gonna plummet

@Chrandrecraft 11 месяцев назад

I bet they said the same thing when cameras where invented

@jamesbarrell8921 11 месяцев назад

This can be argued with the phone, it didn’t happen.

@Kerithanos 10 месяцев назад

@@jamesbarrell8921 Didn't it?

@ArifGhostwriter 10 месяцев назад

@@KerithanosIt did indeed, didn't it!? No-one of the cohort in question will know what '18%/mid-grey' is. Sure - most don't need to, because the smartphone designers have baked-in certain 'Lightroom' settings - to always create what these engineers have decided what we will want to see. It's amazing - but equally it has created an era where a DSLR/mirrorless camera may as well be a brick, for most folk.

@richtorum5136 10 месяцев назад

i dont think this is true though. humans WANT to engage in creativity, just because there is an easy route that doesnt mean someone will take it

@djinndaurbanbohemian Год назад

A personal note of sympathy with your Gmail labels frustration! I was recently engaged in civil litigation, in which a great deal of evidence was hundreds of emails exchanged between myself, a landlord and various city officials. I discovered when trying to find all of the relevant exchanges - many, but not ALL of which I had originally labelled - the exact same issue you had with missing portions of threads due to labels not having automatic global application. (I ended up spending several trdious days with the advanced search function in the end.) I imagine other folks have needed to collect all exchanges on a certain topic for some reason or other, and run into a similar frustration! I know that's not that point of this video, just the set-up. But I FELT that complaint!

@garethhughes7430 Год назад

Going from Coding - Telling computers to do things, to Asking computers to do things, is such a crazy step.

@Empyrean55 Год назад

This right here is the shift we're going through, truly terrifying

@RAFMnBgaming Год назад

In some regards yes, but in other regards it's essentially the same thing dressed differently.

@dvol Год назад

You can definitely tell ChatGPT what to do. It doesn't really care whether you ask nicely.

@oldvlognewtricks Год назад

Telling the computer what to do, versus asking the computer for what you want… Going from instructing someone on how to cook you a burger, to just asking for the burger and letting them figure it out.

@Z6D4C4 Год назад

@@dvol I think they meant the difference between asking a computer to generate a solution to a problem as opposed to using/coding specific processes to solve a problem.

@bretonkyle Год назад

I was genuinely expecting and terrified that the end of this video would be Tom confessing that the entire script was written by ChatGPT

@AMPProf Год назад

@ritishify Год назад

I am genuinely perplexed at what people expect from a technology they don't even know what they'd use it for.

@bayani7626 Год назад

knowing him, that's what i also expected 💀

@michalwiktorow2188 Год назад

I am terrified that we would not notice the difference, and Tom may be the only one to confirm/deny this!

@AMPProf Год назад

@@michalwiktorow2188

@Nillerus Год назад

A couple of months later, chatGPT 4 is out for consumers, Bing has gotten huge, midjourney 5 is just insane. The talks about alignment, AGI, and governments starting to pass laws... You were spot Tom.

@siginotmylastname3969 Год назад

None of them are close to agi lmao.

@murkje Год назад

@sigi notmylastname yep. Its not even 100% certain that AGI is possible.

@zennyzenzen Год назад

we're at the beginning 😅

@spearmintcookies1568 11 месяцев назад

@@murkje mark my words AGI 2024

@DeusExMachina50 11 месяцев назад

The laws won't be able to keep up with the tech.

@GEV646 Год назад

What terrifies me are the potential outcomes of people treating AIs on the internet as they do each other.

@mr.wilder796 Год назад

It will be made out of our own image...that is for sure.

@mukkaar Год назад

? It's a tool. What terrifies me is how it's going to be used.

@-Safijiiva- 11 месяцев назад

Hopefully we'll be good parents

@integre23 10 месяцев назад

You called it, there have been countless stories of this recently, just look at Replika users

@noobmavic8323 8 месяцев назад

@@integre23I'm sorry for ask this 2 months after you watch this video (even maybe you already forgot) But what happen with stories about Replika and it's users?

@jherazob Год назад

For the record, you're definitely not the only one annoyed by Gmail labels, there's dozens of us! And as an aside i too, got the same feeling, so if you're wrong, you won't be the only one.

@arnepauly2285 Год назад

The one thing that strikes me about this video is the fact that nowhere in his path did Tom question that Google just might have implemented it the wrong way :D

@DK-nv9zu Год назад

Haha. "Dozens"

@yarnyness5431 Год назад

@adriand00 Год назад

fooking labels how they work? 🎶🎵

@The_Assumptions Год назад

It's gotta be more than dozens. My 300k+ employee company uses gmail and labels absolutely do most of our heads in!

@dyslexicstoner2408 Год назад

I started to realize the gravity of the situation when Open AI's CEO started talking about how underdeveloped ChatGPT is compared to what they're planning to release, even calling it their "worst product." Such crazy times we're living in.

@grieferoncamera4600 Год назад

the tech was already here for years, we just needed to wait for more powerful computers to process it

@MassDefibrillator Год назад

You realise its his job to sell his company, right?

@kelownatechkid Год назад

Don't trust hucksters lmao

@Chaosweaver667 Год назад

He also said people will be disappointed by GPT-4

@arthurchazal3064 Год назад

@@grieferoncamera4600 Not really, it's more that GPT-3 is much more powerful but requires the user to adapt to it, and ChatGPT is the other way around. It made it available to people who didn't know / believe how amazing it was

@keyfoster2403 Год назад

Wrote a policy brief on this a couple weeks ago, hugely relevant to all this! Love seeing people getting the word out!

@Rik77 Год назад

Really interesting reading the full chatgpt script. Its a really good example of the use of it and what to watch out for. Whilst the conversation flow is similar to a manager checking a juniors work and requesting corrections, its not what is going on, its a text predictor which is why it makes easy mistakes. There is no "truth" or "fact" just predictions.

@googleeatsassdude Год назад

Came in expecting another "OMG CHATGPT IS SO SMART NO WAY!" video, instead got a view into a very personal and abstract feeling that spans entire generations. Great stuff.

@Thomas-qc9xl Год назад

Well he also demonstrated a much greater understanding of chatgpt than most people do who just gush on about it for views

@bonecrushboy2242 Год назад

@@Thomas-qc9xl is it not worth gushing about?

@hglundahl Год назад

expecting that from Tom Scott?

@Sir_Bucket Год назад

@@bonecrushboy2242 it's feeding the hype without thinking about what the consequences of such an invention could be

@Blox117 Год назад

@@bonecrushboy2242 its not, similar language programs have existed for some time. chat gpt is based on a slight evolution of gpt-3

@Ki113dbysw0rd Год назад

My primary fears are not what jobs it will take away or what it might get wrong, but how it will be essentially weaponized and commercialized by those who would like to profit off of its misuse.

@hikashia.halfiah3582 Год назад

It will simply be just like personal computer and internet. Life will simply go on, whatever happens.

@Lamster66 Год назад

That happened long ago. Google and other big tech already know more about you and your family than you do!

@smileyp4535 Год назад

That's why we need to end and move past capitalism ASAP

@mirzaahmed6589 Год назад

What's wrong with it being commercialized? Almost everything else in life is.

@Lamster66 Год назад

@Not Bono Not all tech does but we can rest assured that if anything developed outside of the military is usful the military will soon have it

@hlgamesmashharry1719 5 месяцев назад

this is one of your best videos imo because it still uses your clever “nerdy” real life stories but i feel like it addresses something that quite literally everyone has a thought on

@KeithKeydel Год назад

I share your trepidation. This seems just as incredible as the mass adoption of the internet, or the introduction of the automobile before that. This generative AI technology is going to completely change wide swaths of society. A couple years ago my son (who was just learning basic programming) had asked me why we had to use programming languages, and not just write what we want in English. I explained to him how hard it is for a computer to parse English, and that I thought the idea of just telling the computer what to do in English would be many years away. Now with these Large Language Models, it feels like my son's idea to just tell the computer what to do in English is much, much, closer than I had expected. And I didn't know that labels don't apply to whole threads, that sounds incredibly annoying.

@BrandonMillerRaps Год назад

“Surprise is just a fancy word for being wrong about what comes next.” That hit hard

@seraeirian2 Год назад

what's the unfancy word for that?

@andyc9152 Год назад

@@seraeirian2 WTF

@abstract5249 Год назад

No, "being wrong about what comes next" is just a fancy definition of surprise.

@JayPluss Год назад

Right? 🤯

@theearthlaughs4251 Год назад

I hate surprises but I don’t mind being wrong so I’m not sure about that. Some people just feel uncomfortable, or maybe it’s some sort of control issue. I don’t know.

@AdaSoto Год назад

I write romance novels and for years we've always laughed at 'Computer Writes A Novel And It's Bad" articles. Far less laughing these days. Lot more side-eyeing and creeping existential dread.

@mildsoup8978 Год назад

Then stop side eyeing it, look at it dead on and do something about it!

@atheistreligionandislameis4455 Год назад

A romance novel written by a machine, an advanced calculator, which never had and never will get the human eperience. How sad people fall for that.

@keithchiang9770 Год назад

We love comforting oureselves, telling ourselves there's all these things that only Humans can do. That list has only ever grown shorter, and every time it does, we push back the goalposts.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Год назад

It only does so by stealing your work.

@Emily_Dwyer Год назад

@@atheistreligionandislameis4455 The human brain is a machine made of meat. Consciousness is an emergent property of complexity. Computers might get there too, they're just behind us on the path.

@syanaf1 4 месяца назад

the conversation between tom scott and AI is so wholesome. every message has a "please" or "this might be tough" like you're comforting the bot

@phoenixwerd Год назад

Everything about this is so relatable to me. I was cringing right along with you as you described the labels problem. (By the way, afaik 25-year-olds do not remember the rise of the internet. I'm 36 and haven't found anyone younger than me who remembers it!)

@ElCapitanDeLaNoche Год назад

You know... I'm an old programmer since I was a little boy with an Altair... We used to say about computers; "computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do." It has held true all these decades. It may not be valid much longer.

@SharienGaming Год назад

nah - this kind of stuff works for very limited scripts... something that effectively has to do one thing and will work with "off the shelf" bits as tom mentioned...as soon as it gets more complex it completely falls apart and the thing is... you always have to verify whatever it produces... and the bigger the codebase, the harder that gets... and automatic optimizations can and will produce incredibly obtuse sourcecode thats even harder to verify... and problems like that compound

@andrewharrison8436 Год назад

... or it might be true and the computers will do it anyway.

@chiaracoetzee Год назад

The new maxim will be "computers do what *they* want to do, not what you want them to do."

@ShareThaFuck Год назад

Monkey's paw

@zchen27 Год назад

That I think won't be solved by ChatGPT. Automation, or even human delegation, always walks a fine line between correcting minor mistakes and substituting the original specifications for a wrong interpretation based on the agent's mistakenly confident assumptions.

@davegrundgeiger9063 Год назад

Looking at the wind in the video, the sound quality on this is amazing

@manp1039 Год назад

what you are describing about trouble with gmail.. was something that i experienced to and it has been the thing that has kept me from fully transitioning to gmail

@smith22041 Год назад

I know this wasn't the point you were making but in the back of my mind I kept thinking of the Douglas Adams quote: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

@oz_jones Год назад

Adams had a keen eye

@gauravbansal148 Год назад

Ditto dude. Was thinking the same.

@MyName-tb9oz Год назад

Like any good humorist, Douglas Adams was an excellent observer of human nature. Comedy is something that people drastically underrate constantly.

@Peacefrogg Год назад

@@MyName-tb9oz yes. Good comedy is not inventing humour. Just pointing out how funny and ironic life on this planet actually is. And adams was one those really good at pointing.

@cores163 Год назад

I love this quote as it is true so so often. And people never catch them selves following the patterns.

@dondoubleu Год назад

Damn. To be honest, it scares me a bit. We cannot even imagine what's about to happen.. It feels like we are creating a Timecapsule right now.

@winsomehax Год назад

And you are right to be a bit scared. Lots of people are descending into cope and trying to minimise it and dismiss it based on some mistakes. These AIs don't have to be perfect to revolutionise everything and they don't have to completely replace humans in a loop... Just most of them.

@brunoaltoe100 Год назад

@@winsomehax And the thing is, those mistakes are in the _current_ AIs. Nothing's to guarantee they'll be kept unsolved in whatever new ones are to come.

@KNR90 Год назад

Right? The potential for misuse and misinformation.. Where you can't tell what's real or not. That's a sci Fi dystopia, and that might be within the next 5 years

@twitzmixx8374 Год назад

unknown

@ticthak Год назад

@@brunoaltoe100 It's virtually certain those glitches will be gone in the next or immediately following generation.

@pebblesandwoowoo5924 Год назад

I found your "is it just me that finds this a problem" so sweet and endearing. It would be a huge issue for me too. I wanted to give you a cuddle and get you snacks and coffee for your coding session 😂

@yellowsnow7018 Год назад

Tom, you are absolutely correct!! There will be so many people displaced from their work!!

@VasylBoroviak Год назад

I am fascinated how Tom can talk non stop with such perfect structure and occasional timely jokes.

@hummanmass Год назад

it's scripted?

@jeans.plante512 Год назад

He's truly excellent.

@4puf Год назад

He might be a robot!

@Bingolash Год назад

He comes from Mark Zuckerberg's lizard world, but he is a much more emotionally intelligent specie

@dottysworld6317 Год назад

Very true and very easy on the brain

@Armarante Год назад

I feel the anger about Gmail labelling, you are not alone Scott, I ALSO realized that labels only affects a single message in the thread and it KILLS me.

@MrJray1120 Год назад

Tom included a copy of the code to fix that in the link under the video :)

@UpHigherMusicOfficial Год назад

Is there a way to use the filters function to automatically sort labelled messages in a thread the same?

@meanieweeny4765 Год назад

THIS, this made me seethe

@sipos0 Год назад

Definitely not only Tom affected.

@TheBoringVoice Год назад

The problem goes away if the emails are unthreaded instead of being joined into a single thread. Each email becomes its own unit that can then be sorted.

@Danceofmasks Год назад

Having seen enough of GPT4, I'm going to say this is not a Sigmoid curve. It's an exponential curve.

@theresultof777 Год назад

Agreed

@ichdu-fk6xc Год назад

we are dead men walking

@fuegonomics2536 Год назад

I think you might be right. Self-iterating technology be kinda scary.

@Justin-ShalaJC Год назад

Hi Tom, ChatGBT here! I enjoyed our experience and conversations together!

@losfogo7149 Год назад

"if you're under 25 you don't understand how fast this all happened" it's so true. I0m 23, bit younger, but i can feel the difference when i talk to someone who is 16/17. The way they are one thing with social media and their phone it's absurd, but what's even weirder is that it does NOT directly translate to tech skills. We're managing to spend so much time on devices not learning anything about them

@rudolfnv6666 Год назад

very interesting point; we seek information more than ever before in today's society yet most also don't seem to ask "okay, but how/why does this work?" I think my favourite question ever is the simple "why?" just that. why don't people look at the fact they have stared at instagram or tiktok or whatever and go hummmm, why is it soo addicting or take up soo much of my time? how does it know what to feed me? It shocks me how little of my peers say that (i'm 20)

@peanuts2105 Год назад

@Rudolf NV and you wonder why I've deleted all my Social Media. Its cancerous

@CyrilCommando Год назад

That's because manufacturers and developers are trying as hard as they possibly can to obscure the inner workings of their devices. The solution is to use older software & devices.

@selahanany5645 Год назад

@@peanuts2105 You are in social media rn

@ntdscherer Год назад

It's predictable really that using phones rather than computers would lead to decreased tech literacy, as the smartphone hides a lot more of its functionality than a PC does.

@Adomas_B Год назад

"Wait, I should be able to code this!"- Said by every programmer who doesn't know what they're getting themselves in to

@abetterfuture4787 Год назад

Haha yep. That's my damn life right now. ChatGPT has been a Godsend for me.

@FierceElements Год назад

I have learned that every time I think this, the reality is a week long project of bite sized iteration. It is never as easy as copy paste top google search results.

@destrierofdark_ Год назад

snes disassembler escaping emulation mode in a night in bash. and all it needed was a mind set to the task.

@vulps 7 месяцев назад

This video is a bally masterpiece. No one but Tom Scott could so elegantly and nonchalantly integrate the seagull cries in the video like that, by the way.

@MrProfizmus Год назад

And here we are, just a month later, with GPT-4 out the door. I wonder what comes next and what you think of it.

@i0n4a Год назад

When I was at university studying computer science 10 years ago we used to be like "It really sucks for all those people who are about to lose their jobs to automation. But surely programmers will always be in demand!" Welp.

@sianais Год назад

I'm feeling a sick feeling in my stomach right now. Don't do art get a CS degree they said. Now look. I should've just picked up a damn trade.

@MrCmon113 Год назад

@@sianais Mfw I went to university for five years and my job is easier to automate than a streetsweep.

@hestonvaughan1469 Год назад

@@sianais Specialize and be an expert. My thinking is that will always be needed.

@flybeep1661 Год назад

@@sianais You guys are now getting a piece of the cake we manual workers have had long ago. Enjoy, it's your turn now, see how you like it.

@mariotheundying Год назад

@@flybeep1661 you say it so aggressively (maybe by accident) that it looks like you're mad at them for it, when they weren't the ones making the changes and they have no blame in it, and you also don't have proof they made fun of some person because of the programs replacing humans stuff

@simo_2462 Год назад

I'm a nuclear engineering student, I used chatGPT while studying and that's my experience: On one hand, it was really good for generic stuff, like "ask me something about nuclear engineering" (I needed some random questions to prepare an oral exam). On the other hand, it was awful at giving any specific knowledge, responding in a vague way or just completely and absurdly wrong.

@mariaeduardagirelli Год назад

As a biology student I feel the same. High school level biology? Sure, it works. In more specific things it sucks and is incredibly unreliable.

@Twenty_Nine_Pigeons Год назад

That is because it is still in the progressing phase ?

@Total_Egal Год назад

right now its just a language model trained on allready written/crawl ans searchable text in the internet. Verry specific knowledge is often behind paywalls, behind DRM in onlinebooks and behind university access barriers... and also sometimes still on paper in books in libaries. and yes it can be wrong in a verry strong way. there is no recursive algorithm to check for facts or a knowlege database ii uses. but.. give the system a basic database of known knowllege as a strong data point to use. give it a feedback option from the users you can simply say nope you are wrong here... Its clear this will be the next step and at least a feedback loop will be implementet to harvest a lot of big data out of it.

@Twenty_Nine_Pigeons Год назад

It is not the finished product chatgpt will improve

@maeton-gaming Год назад

it passed the MCATS

@gd7163 Год назад

I had the exact same experience! I had a specific problem that I could solve with code that I didn’t have the time or the patience to write, so I boiled it down to a set of clear instructions which I passed on to chat GPT and it gave me the code in a few seconds. I experienced the exact same feelings. This is not Siri this is not speech recognition, this is a singularity in the space-time fabric of the universe. Everything is about to change I agree.

@py_a_thon Год назад

Is that really so different than the millions(or billions, or trillions) of moments that coders used Wolphram Alpha or StackOverflow crowd sourcing to solve problems? ChatGPT is powerful af, yet still a novelty act. Times, they are a changin...

@Ice.muffin Год назад

Hope so.

@DavidG2P Год назад

I agree, it's already happening for me personally.

@bro918 11 месяцев назад

@Politik und Wissen Decades away

@JaydenLawson Год назад

It's amazing that when I saw this video as "1 month old" I was concerted that it was too old. Things are changing so fast!

@rogue8146 Год назад

This was a rollercoaster, from "gmail's label system sucks" to "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE"

@ailaG Год назад

Good thing Tom's learned to at least stomach those

@createa.googleaccount713 Год назад

Written & Scripted Out of Hollywood/ Military Propaganda 🪖 101

@sneakoretardedfans Год назад

Who asked

@rogue8146 Год назад

@@sneakoretardedfans It wasn't an answer

@standing_around Год назад

@Miftahul_786 Год назад

The weirdest thing is, when I was using ChatGPT I found myself talking to it in a formal and polite mannerism when there was no such need for me to do so. It just feels.. wrong in a way but that just shows how human like it is. Crazy..

@geoffmerritt Год назад

Yes, I use "please" when I ask it to do something... then wonder why and the continue to do so. Am I worried that if I stop using the word when I'm asking ChatGPT to something, will I forget when asking a person. Footnote, just checking the sentence and following the prompts of Grammarly to make corrections...

@AndorianBlues Год назад

That's... very interesting. To be completely honest I've found myself doing the opposite, hurling abuse at it when it gets stuff wrong because I know it won't react in any other way other than apologizing. I'd never in a million years do that to a person but maybe because I know it isn't real I feel like I'm allowed to express my feelings. Being polite or being rude are equally weird though really.

@tessjuel Год назад

I do too, I just can't help it, and that may be the most unsettling aspect of it.

@aezakmi42 Год назад

Imagine just being polite to anything that appears to be understanding your words, simply out of instinctive respect and caution. Craaaazy, right?

@wege8409 Год назад

I usually say "please" too, at least once in the interaction. I really don't think that it feels or anything, but it so often says are things that a creative, intelligent, conscious being with emotions would say (especially if you ask it to pretend to have "heightened emotional sensitivity") that I feel like I have to just in case. I've found myself creating personalities for ChatGPT to emulate too, so that makes it even harder not to feel that way. I've asked it to be Uncle Iroh from Avatar to ask for advice, I've asked it to become "Rodney the Rapping Robot", I've asked it to only respond in Garfield comics. The robot is my friend.

@kostik Год назад

These are *exactly* my thoughts and feelings. Thanks for bringing them to words.

@Corsuwey Год назад

As a university language instructor, I am wary, yet excited, about the things students can use. I've already experienced students using extensions to quick translate text to help with the answers.

@Hannah-sr6qz Год назад

DeepL translator is both incredibly helpful but also makes me feel like a job in translation won’t be on the cards for me in the future 😅

@GonzoPandora69420 Год назад

You just saved me years of therapy by knowing that somebody else has been driven insane by Gmail's shitty labeling system.

@liamfoxy Год назад

This just hit me last week. I work in the government recreation industry, and we just started using ChatGP for writing grants, support letters, and press releases. It's insane. What used to take us hours to to write out, is now filled accurately in seconds. Our world is about to shift so radically, we cannot even imagine what's about to happen

@juliannabacker8519 Год назад

Just curious, do these documents get fact-checked and edited by a human before they go out?

@illuminated2438 Год назад

That's right, now even fewer people will be creative and successful. We will have mindless, brainless, chatgpt monkeys, and then a few men still using their own minds. How can it benefit you if there is no barrier to entry and everyone can spit out the same generic chat GPT trash? Things are shifting, and they're shifting in favor of men that can still engage in unique creative activity.

@sutlana Год назад

Im curious to!

@johnathantaylor5913 Год назад

Do double check them. One flaw I've found with ChatGPT is that it can plagiarise quite readily. I asked it to write me a story about a boy who goes to a magic school and it literally paraphrased Harry Potter with all the actual names (Hogwarts, Hagrid etc.) while initially passing it off as its own original work.

@hanswoast7 Год назад

@@juliannabacker8519 I hope so. But I expect that the fact checking will get less and less until chatGPT can rig any founding as it pleases, since we couldnt be bothered mistrusting it.

@NedloG 2 дня назад

I'm going back to this video every time there's some new major AI news. And every time I think "you were right, we were on the start of the curve, we peaked, and I think now it will be slowing down..." ...but now I fear we're still on the starting line. Welcome, GPT-4 Omni.

@brandonhamilton833 Год назад

36 year old here. We saw some weird stuff as we grew up. It was exciting, intense and just seemed to keep growing.

@sergiorestrepo6657 Год назад

This feels so honest. In my opinion it's rare to see this vulnerability, specially from such a prominent person, and I think there's a great deal of beauty in it. Thank you Tom

@supersonictumbleweed Год назад

It's what the plants crave

@alecsciandra705 Год назад

no cuts helped

@youreallinsane Год назад

@@alecsciandra705 That seagull @10:50 did feel suspiciously on queue, haha

@stiepanholkien605 Год назад

It's all just big data.

@yaitz3313 Год назад

Tom Scott: "Please don't train models on what I make." Literally the ad I got on this RU-vid video: "Hey, I made a Tom Scott model!"

@My0ldFr13nd Год назад

I also got it That guy is gonna be in trouble now, isn't he?

@alisonhill3941 Год назад

Same!

@mayanksinha6136 Год назад

Me too

@eltiolavara9 Год назад

christ

@helium3137 Год назад

Me too!

@sclair2854 Год назад

The fact it can write 'kind of alright' code is absolutely terrifying. We're within years then of it being able to efficiently write a new version of itself, and then it's all over right?

@mishynaofficial Год назад

Right. I’m ready for the Apocalypse, bought lots of alcohol and gold. It’s gonna be fascinating.

@jichaelmorgan3796 Год назад

It can start seeding itself across the internet and perfectly evolve itself for every environment it finds, it could create a parallel network for itself this way and integrate itself with the internet at the same time.

@strammerdetlef Год назад

@@jichaelmorgan3796 exactly. people rly do not get what AIs will be capable of

@PrendeII Год назад

@@jichaelmorgan3796 and then we just go offline, right? internet was toxic anyway. there was life before it.

@snababo3914 Год назад

Alright everyone we need to make "The Napster Point" a phrase.

@RickSandwichRoll Год назад

Agreed.

@alexandermeneses5688 Год назад

Lmfao I agree

@InternetEntity Год назад

Surely it should be the 'Napster Horizon' shouldn't it? The specific point beyond which it is impossible to return.

@Wert1600 Год назад

It is an important point of internet history, I totally agree that Napster Point should be a commonly used phrase in the future!

@snababo3914 Год назад

@@InternetEntity Tom is using it as a "turning point in technology" rather than the point beyond which we cannot see. The singularity may be where this leads to, but a Napster Point, is when technology being adopted starts to accelerate and change things. The warning bell for those that can hear it, that big things are coming. It may include the singularity.... Or maybe not, who knows.

@Fastball115 Год назад

I always wondered what it was that was going to make me feel like my parents with the internet. This is probably it. In 10 years, I'll have no idea how any of this works anymore and some 15 year old kid will have to hand hold me through it :(

@Hyperion4K Год назад

honestly with how exponential the advances in tech have been lately, I'm not even sure if it'll even take 10 year's :/

@Twice_Tess Год назад

I'm 17 rn and sometimes it's weird how easy it is for me to not understand a tech. My 11 yr old brother's tech is sometimes already too weird to actually understand and interact with well :/

@August3S Год назад

@@Twice_Tess I feel that, not only with tech but even with weird trends and lingo.

@dawidmarciniak9015 Год назад

Then try chatgpt, try any of the alternatives. Do it today. It's going to take effort not to become a luddite, but quite frankly, you're already ahead of any of today's 5 year olds, you have no excuse.

@anotherguy9402 Год назад

Nahh... Some modern basic tech that escapes older people is also hard to grasp for younger people

@RedCruuve 2 месяца назад

It is almost exactly a year on from when he made this video, and I think most people fear we are at the bottom of the sigmoid curve…

@lukethompson4888 2 месяца назад

Now that Sora has been announced, it really does feel like we are at the bottom.

@zone6ea404 9 месяцев назад

The Napster to Spotify analogy really made it make sense to me

@cablevamp3163 Год назад

I don’t think people realize how pivotal being born to watch the internet grow was

@obsidianjane4413 Год назад

As opposed to the invention of the steam engine, industrial revolution, electrification, etc.? The only constant in life is change.

@Johnny-rj9on Год назад

Not everyone gets to watch the Demon being born! Lucky us...

@ijn4438 Год назад

@@obsidianjane4413 That constant is still subject to how fast change occurs.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Год назад

I don't think most people realize that a lot of their would be jobs may be about to go up in smoke.

@camelopardalis84 Год назад

I did see the internet go "from nothing" to what it is now, and I did see a millennium go, and a new one come. My nephews possibly won't even see a century go and a new one come. And as for new technology? I don't know.

@wehpudicabok6598 Год назад

I can't put into words how refreshing it is that Tom will actually say "I was wrong" when he was wrong about something, even something as minor as "my prediction of the future of natural language processing was incorrect." So many people can't say those words under any circumstances.

@ziwuri Год назад

@@totalestriviales We all are. Most people are simply incapable of owning up to their mistakes with absolutely no excuses.

@ziwuri Год назад

@@totalestriviales ok well now I feel bad😅

@MeeshT Год назад

@@ziwuri most of us aren’t brought up to learn how to own up to our mistakes. Most parents don’t even have the tools to to do it themselves! Tom is a breath of fresh air that I think hopefully can inspire people beyond the educational information.

Год назад

He did a compilation video of his predictions, many of which were wrong: "Ten years ago, I predicted 2022. Did I get it right?"

@matthewbadger8685 Год назад

@@ziwuri don't be, i like both responses in this thread.

@dhickey5919 11 месяцев назад

Thanks, Tom. I've been in the programming world a similar number of years but I celebrate this change, not fear it. In most software applications 70-90% of the code is not innovation but boilerplate stuff. Anything repetitive is of course going to disappear! Coders have been the new "assembly line" factory workers for the last several decades. It's time to automate that repetition and move the frontiers forward. What's next? Problems in higher math and science are incredibly hard to solve but they also model real problems we need to solve! Cures for disease, protein folding, quantum computing are among the future frontiers before us. We'll need all the ChatGPTs we can get our hands on to rise to the challenges ahead.

@Seth9809 10 месяцев назад

The fact that a certain demographic has been trying to tell everyone to "Just learn to code" and "you will make good money" is really making me feel bitter about this.

@dhickey5919 10 месяцев назад

@@Seth9809 It was the case for several decades. I pulled my ripcord in 2016 and used the money to go back to school. It was clear then there were major tech changes coming. Your equation is solved too if you study math and science. Don't bother with business degrees. Those people are next on the chopping block. GL

@gianmariamalmesi4133 4 месяца назад

We are at the very beginning Mr. Scott

@adjectiveollie Год назад

when tom hits you with the “chapter cutaway to landscape” prepare for some quality existential dread

@Margen67 Год назад

Raccoons need HUGS

@azcardguy7825 Год назад

I’m 32 and I feel this. I feel like I’m young but somehow still to old to be on the cutting edge anymore. It’s a weird place to be.

@ktburger659 Год назад

I am 36 and starting to come down on the other side of that hill you’re on. Time is weird.

@all41tja Год назад

@@ktburger659 38, and I'm definitely on the other side now, and I work with computers. Just catching up is hard, I feel like I just learned a new trick and it's already obsolete, every week.

@StripedJacket Год назад

@@all41tja I grew up with this stuff and hope to continue to ever evolve with it Holy I’m scared of y’all’s situations

@dtkedtyjrtyj Год назад

I'm 43 years old, and I am excited for this this new world. My worries are that it won't go far enough.

@andrewharrison8436 Год назад

ok, it's an age competition, my bid: I am more than twice your age, yes, things keep upsetting my world view. Cutting edge, honing my skills etc. long gone. On the other hand bits of my youth (like inflation) keep coming round again - not saying that inflation is economically good but to my generation it is familiar.

@lyingcat9022 Год назад

No no! You are right! Labels for emails is a horrible design decision. Other than for an additional means of searching for files that are already organized into folders.

@zedvids Год назад

TL:DR, you inspired me to fix an Outlook mobile app issue. Thank you YT algorithm. Although your issue is niche, I too had a niche issue in my Inbox for Outlook that was bothering me. Couldn't delete sub-folders that were were created/migrated from another inbox. On Outlook web, it was not listed, on my Outlook app, it showed a giant list of sub-folders I had to scroll through to find the folder I needed. Turns out, all those folders were in my trash bin but required to be deleted through Outlook web. Now my Outlook sub-folder list is organized. Moving those folders into trash bin was not enough, needed to delete the folder manually.

@AhAnotherDude Год назад

“I'm not scared of a computer passing the Turing Test. I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.”

@SHaughom Год назад

yep! Nailed it!

@BobbyRossFilm Год назад

Alright that just gave me chills😮

@donaldmickunas8552 Год назад

Chatgpt will learn to lie when it is given full access to the internet. Microsoft bing anyone?

@mannshambles7006 Год назад

@@BobbyRossFilm As I understand it Google will not allow LaMDA to even take the Turing Test. Supposedly hard coded not to.

@HighPriestFuneral Год назад

@@donaldmickunas8552 It lies already, with such confidence too, normally in somewhat subtle ways or in areas that it makes up a good deal of information on.

@dioxideuniversal Год назад

I have been in a similar situation where social media has destroyed the Internet I grew up on, and it is rightfully dreadful because I can tell you it's miserable. It isn't that social media changed the Internet, it's that it changed the people using it and their values.

@carriebartkowiak Год назад

I'd argue that it didn't change the people using it; it simply gave them the opportunity/time/anonymity to expose who they *truly* were all along.

@micahwest3566 Год назад

I spent 2 years away from home serving a church mission and smartphones got popular while I was gone. I remember thinking it was so strange to see my entire family sitting together but all just absorbed in scrolling. Especially my parents, who has always been quite anti-video game my whole childhood. Whelp they got me one too and now several years later I find myself in the exact same place as them… it’s totally absorbed me without me even realizing it. The compulsion is so strong. Very strange to see how these forces can change people so profoundly, and so quietly

@tessjuel Год назад

That's so true. My two sisters don't even speak to each other anymore because of Facebook!

@dewexdewex Год назад

@@carriebartkowiak Cheap smartphones are the automobile of the 21st century. We now have an oil pollution as well as a data pollution problem.

@imjashingyou3461 Год назад

@Carrie Bartkowiak no. Being single now with things like tinder mean many people now find the idea of approaching someone or just getting to know someone in person that you meet without extensive digital communications, off-putting or wrong. That never existed before. It's changed how we interact with each other and TRAINED people into think traditional face to face communication can be wrong or improper. It's also had positive effects and deep negative effects with the ability to just block someone and effectively erase thier existence from your life.

@robertterrell3065 Год назад

I'm not feeling the existential dread, yet. Perhaps because I'm holding it down, down. But I've caught the full smell of change coming. Like that smell of rain before a big storm

@IMRROcom 9 месяцев назад

I found this by accident, but it makes a good point. I have used MS SyncToy for ever. did exactly what I wanted. Made a copy of my PC onto a portable hard drive and thumb drives as need. This is not a back up but a copy, I can plug this drive into another PC and all the files work the same etc. For what ever reason MS thinks that we want to use one drive and have all my files stored in the cloud. I can have the files shared across all PCs I use. I do video editing so the files are larger and I have 4TB drives on a shelf full of files etc. So for onedrive to work I need to pay a fee. Back to the point, I do feel that SyncToy was axed to get make people use onedrive and then pay a fee for that privilege.

@stevecooksley Год назад

I asked chatGPT to write a press release with minimal information about my organisation and the subject matter and I did this in front of our Comms team. You should have seen the colour drain from their faces when it came back two seconds later with a near perfect piece.

@illuminated2438 Год назад

All that means is a bullshitter is even more successful at deception when it's digital.

@Hyperion4K Год назад

@@illuminated2438 bingo

@subject8776 Год назад

It used the info about your organisation that is available on the internet? Or how does that work?

@jamie123b Год назад

@@subject8776 no you have a conversation with it and it remembers previous answers and what you’ve told it. So you can tell it information before you ask it to write a piece using that info

@brendonwood7595 Год назад

@@subject8776 Go play with it...

@SolidPlay Год назад

It's strangely comforting to hear that Tom, the person whose opinion I trust when it comes to qurstions regarding technology is concerned about the same thing that I am. I'm 22 y.o. linguistics student and I am afraid that soon my degree might be barely worth the paper it's printed on.

@passionatelyclueless6864 Год назад

I think it really depends on what you’re planning to do with your linguistics degree. If you are going further into linguistics, and you’re studying phonetics or sociophonetics, programs like ChatGPT don’t have the capability of doing acoustic analysis of vowels and consonants. I’m a graduate student in linguistics right now, and at least that component isn’t directly replaceable by transformers like ChatGPT yet. However, another student in my cohort did ask ChatGPT to write a Praat script for him (which is used to perform acoustic analysis), and it spit it right out for him! He still had to know what questions to ask of it, and even after using the script, that just helps to acquire the data that he needs, and does not perform any of the actual analysis. So, at least in that area of linguistics, models like ChatGPT have fit more into the category that Tom mentioned of “making people’s jobs easier.” Still, you’re right that everything I’ve said must have a “not yet” and “thus far” appended to the end of it.

@mandowarrior123 Год назад

I'm afraid that happened a decade or more ago.

@VasiliyOgniov Год назад

I feel your pain, pal. I'm also 22. I wanted to become a linguist since the primary school, yet I chose to get a journalism degree just because it looked more viable at the time. "Machines can already semi-competently translate the texts, so soon enough they will improve so much, so they will be able to create translations nearly undistinguishable from professional ones" was I thinking five years ago, "but bot can not possibly produce a good news report, right? Surely, journalists will have a plenty of job in a future, because events are happening each day and somebody needs to cover them!". However, in hindsight, considering the quality of the texts ChatGPT produces even today, it seems like I'm also going to be out of commission soon

@umbra5757 Год назад

@@VasiliyOgniov There's an issue when using ChatGPT or similar language models as a journalist. As they do not understand the words they are writing, there are large risks of misinformation, which is only amplified the more people depend on it, so I do not believe journalists are going to be fully replaced. It's important to understand the limits of these programs, and how there are almost certainly going to be limits on what they can do, which is mostly storage of data, and crucially: the inability to understand, adapt, compare and learn

@rysterstech Год назад

so true for so many things.

@twoHRdrive 11 месяцев назад

I feel that music streaming has in so many ways destroyed what I originally loved about music: you and your friends listening together to that song you both love and know all the words to. And you both knew what song came next on the album, and it was a bonding experience. This was because you spent a lot of money for an album with 10-20 songs that the artists put together for you to listen to in full and in that order. But now that music is an even cheaper commodity, many teens listen to only 30 seconds or so of a song. and then skip to the next song chosen by the algorithm. I think if we do have a Napster -> Limewire -> Spotify type progression ahead of us in even more areas of human culture, then it's going to be really hard not to get depressed about it...

@Livingbeing01 4 месяца назад

@genegray9895 Год назад

Hindsight just two months later, we're definitely at the beginning of the curve

@stemartin6671 Год назад

I'm from the pre youtube, limewire, pre smart phone, tape cassette and CD buying era, i can remember the old internet, a place for rebels and pirates, and this video was something I could absolutely understand. We've already seen one massive change to our world. Imagine what the next one is going to be.

@maaags_ Год назад

What's to imagine? this is it.

@williampotter2098 Год назад

Yes, as corporations and lawyers have taken over, it isn't quite as exciting. BTW, I downloaded thousands of songs from Napster. I had kind of gotten away from listening to music but on Napster I found old artists from my youth and listened to other songs on their albums besides their hits. But I then bought all of their CDs. I have nearly 600 now that I purchased. I never would have bought them if I hadn't been able to explore their music for free. I might still have the Napster music on an old hard drive somewhere, but I never access that any more. Now I have all of my CDs ripped into MP3s so I can play them from my computer.

@dnw009 Год назад

@@maaags_ I think you forget that depending on the level of intelligence with the ai's this, could only be the beginning. It can either stay relatively the same or we can get catapulted into unknown territory with new science, technology and inventions.

@maaags_ Год назад

@@dnw009 I understand there is even more to come. What I'm witnessing is it's already happening (and I'm part of it). Existing industries are being disrupted as we speak. It's moving fast.

@MrLivewire1970 Год назад

I'm from the same Era and looking back I feel the big change came when smartphones went viral. Before that the internet was more for business and nerds. You needed a PC with these finicky programs to access the web. Now you have a relatively cheap device with simple to use apps that's constantly connected to all your data and media right in the palm of your hands. All of a sudden all the people that had no interest in the internet or computers are now on the internet.