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Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over - Reddthat

>Altman’s remarks ih his tweet [https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2033935276079510011] drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction. > >“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.” > >Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.” > >“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

The tweet.

ChatGPT, write me a missive of a 16th century printing press operator saying goodbye to scribes, only their printing press swaps around words and hallucinates entire sentences every time they use it.

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Patrikvo

Actually a good comparison. The printing press still required people to compose the text to print. It only did away with the copying of existing texts. Ai still needs someone to compose the prompt for it to work and explaining to a computer what to do is programming. We’re only moving a level higher in the abstraction.