Altman’s remarks in his tweet 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.
I read almost all of the first chapter out of courtesy, but I could do with some introduction of what this is. The piece doesn’t even have a prologue and you just copypasted a link with no context. What’s this in general?
I wanted to share it as I experienced it: I also was given a bare link with little introduction. It’s short enough that I feel like too much introduction would amount to spoilers. The story was written 23 years ago, but its opening describes a future that I feel might be just a few years out with our “AI assistants” telling us what to do, how to do it, etc. It goes on to describe a couple of alternate futures resulting from this technological advancement.
Where today’s AI tech is different from the story is that today’s tech is flaky enough that professional experts in their fields still have to “push back” to get good results out of the AI tools, tell them when they’re wrong, guide them to better / more preferred solutions. What’s… new this past 12 months as opposed to the previous 50 years of AI development is that the tech is steadily and rather quickly advancing - to the point that it feels like it might be able to implement “Manna” within just a couple more years.