AI Augmentation, Not Replacement: Focus on Human-AI Collaboration

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OpenAI says latest ChatGPT upgrade is big step forward but still can’t do humans’ jobs

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u/skccsk

Because he lies for cash.

u/skccsk

AI is also good at making stuff up, so your job may be in trouble.

u/Shiningc00

>Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, called the model a “significant step forward” to achieving the theoretical state of AGI, Delusional, LLMs will never become an AGI. The sad part is

u/Minute_Attempt3063

Then why tell CEOs they should fire everyone, and that the next got (5 In this case) was the best it could ever be, that he was shitting bricks on how good it was....

u/TurtleFisher54

To hide the fact they need to fire people so their stock doesn't plummet or they don't lose face. Our economy is doing terrible right now, the only growth sector outside of tech is health car

u/This_Caterpillar5626

I pretty much think we’re mid AIs dot com bubble. A lot of just idiotic or badly implanted ideas before more sober build up that sticks.

u/abnormal_human

Sure, but most code that gets written in the world each day is boring, rote, and well covered by online tutorials. Even for people doing novel things, it's common that only a small part of th

u/hclpfan

AI can’t wholesale replace a human yet but it can increase their productivity by 20%. So in aggregate you can have 80 people doing the job that used to be done by 100 but with 20 less salarie

u/NuclearVII

Yup. All the "impressive" things LLMs do is a result of plagiarism - the model doesnt create anything, sometimes it managed to regurgitate something from the training set that matches what y

u/Tranecarid

Get out of here with your reasonable take and never come back. It’s a hate safe space and you’re ruining it.

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u/Excitium

Yeah, we've tried using different copilots and AI agents at work but for the fairly complex code our projects require, it was always more work to fix the generated code than to just write it

u/Zookeeper187

Manhattan Project everybody. They are scared what they have created.

u/LordOfThe_Pings

This after spending the past 2 years hyping it up by likening it to the Manhattan project.....

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u/Excitium

Right, so let me guess, in reality it's just small improvements but they gotta keep the investors on the hook by saying "we are making big leaps but are not quite there yet" to keep the money

u/LordOfThe_Pings

This after spending the past 2 years hyping it up by likening it to the Manhattan project.....

u/cyberdork

Yeah, and all the AI subs were full with people speculating that it might be AGI. Day before the release people saying shit like: "On the eve of the most significant product release of our li

u/ddubyeah

Then why is everyone firing people because AI can do jobs? It couldn't be a smoke screen to steal wealth could it?

u/pimpeachment

Because it can augment jobs to allow fewer people to accomplish the same workload.

u/wheresmyflan

Not everyone is, many places are hiring. Stick around in the industry long enough and you start to notice these IT killer trends aren’t as much a death knell for an entire industry as they ar

u/Howdyini

This is indistinguishable from a public statement by OpenAI. There's not a single ounce of skepticism, no attempt to verify a single claim. Where's the journalism here? The reception to GPT5

u/foundafreeusername

I see no improvement in coding besides speed. It can code things you find plenty online tutorials for and still fails quickly if I start to request something novel.

u/foundafreeusername

I think they simply invest so many resources into AI that everything else gets cut.

u/justmyname12

This here, people are not losing job to AI, they are losing to AI investments.

u/NuclearVII

"We have the secret magic agi sauce, but its too dangerous"

u/WTFwhatthehell

There's a few simple jobs it can do: there's some jobs that boiled down to sitting reading blocks of text and filling in boxes in a form. Converting unstructured data to structured. Those

u/tomthespaceman

I keep seeing all this hype around ai, and after seeing stuff about chat gpt 5 and how good it is, spent some time trying to see if i could get it to make a tiny browser game where in platfor

u/Ghune

It can't replace a worker 100%. According to my friend who is a manager in a big tech company, using AI can assist you and make you save time. A significant part of your job is not doing thin

u/19inchrails

/r/ChatGPT is in complete meltdown over GPT-5's performance (in a negative way). Apparently it's not quite the Manhatten Project Sam Altman was referring to.

u/Guilty-Mix-7629

Strange. I could swear altman spent a good year and a half saying GPT-5 would change the world in such fast, drastic and unpredictable ways, the world would simply not be ready. Are you tel

u/skccsk

This release isn't even really an improvement. It's a scheme to limit losses by making it harder/impossible for regular users to access the most expensive services.

u/DetectiveFinch

This is the correct answer. Especially in "low skill" repetitive office work, like writing mails, reports, summaries or bills, AI can make a single human employee more efficient. Speech reco

u/webguynd

Yep. It’s the garner hype cycle. We are now at or almost at the peak of inflated expectations. Next up is the bubble bursting and the trough of dissolutionment. This is following an eerily

u/cawgoestheeagle

https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo?si=U0JLFDOkm8VKaak9

u/foundafreeusername

You absolutely do get gaslit. When testing LLM's like ChatGPT I tell it to make pong and then change the shape of the paddle and walls. It generates pong just fine because it has plenty on tr

u/Starfox-sf

The Altman AI is still waiting on that $3tril

u/SkiPolarBear22

The grift must never, ever stop

u/skccsk

I don't think people like him even have beliefs. They're wired to attract 'investor' capital with lies like ants using dirt to build a nest.

u/WTFwhatthehell

5 years ago a lot of my time was helping out researchers with their scripts. Typically not terribly complex ones. They needed to read in some CSV files, do some filtering and then apply so

u/Ediwir

I imagine it will be, but it will never justify the prices it’s being purchased or contracted for. Remember: AI won’t take your job - someone who knows when *not to* use AI will take your jo

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