I’ve been writing for years : “The machines aren’t coming for your jobs! They already have them!” and here is another step in a steady chnage. That change is only steady in that it can be predicted. As we make a certain change that facilitates another few, things speed up. A few more changes into the process, things sped up even more. We’re looking at a slowly building line that over time ( but not a lot of it!) goes from mostly “horizontal” to one that is nearly vertical.
Take a deep breath. Get used to the change and be nimble, because there is nothing short of a dinosaur event meteor will stop these changes,
I’ve done a very unscientific polls of friends, and being mostly like minded their reaction to this was somewhat predictable: “If I need someone to talk to that badly then I’ll tell my dog. At least I know that he won’t blab to anyone else”.
Others went a bit further: “Why not just call them up directly and tell them your secrets? Do away with the middleman.”(The A.I.).
Although two people mentioned the need for (and possible dearth of) mental health that follows in the wake of “the Covid that never went away”.
“It isn’t another person, but it might be helpful to tell …someone. It might make you feel better.”
“And who is to say that this is maybe version 5 or 6, and by working with it, we help enable a much higher level of understanding and allowing for “being only Human” to actually be encompassed and understood by a machine.
And there you have summarized “in a nutshell”, every advance that we will see in the next few years. Pretty soon I expect, you’ll follow that curve “up”.
