The Industrial Revolution basically automates muscle and automates human beings as kind of beasts of burden. So, the other way of looking at this is that what we've been doing is sort of gradually automating higher and higher level functions. And there's a sort of argument that you're moving up towards the top and there won't be anything that you can't automate. I think the problem with that is this sort of sense of infinite human needs that will just create new things.
The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on analyst Benedict Evans to talk about Chat GPT and machine learning (5:00), how it gets things wrong (10:00), the “fluent bullshit” problem (12:00), whether this is a genuine breakthrough moment (15:20), what this means for humans (18:25), “prompt engineering” (23:00), humans as curators rather than creators (26:40), tech’s mid-life crisis (27:45), the future of “search” (32:10), using AI do make “no-code” software (35:00), where we go from here (39:00), and the illusion of creativity (42:45).
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