*Looks around, wistfully* So, this is what the pre-Blade Runner era looks like…
Has everyone been saying “please” in their Chat GPT queries? And thank you! This technology has been around for but the blink of an eye and is already wildly intelligent, useful, and a clear harbinger of a new normal. (If anyone names their GPT “Hal,” they’re just asking for it.)
Have you started messing around with any of the AI chatbots and sites that have sprung up? Have you been reading about it or listening to the podcast episodes lamenting the impending loss of jobs or suggesting myriad ways to get rich by investing in it asap?
I feel wide-eyed in the face of it all. But I do believe that those of us who neglect to learn to work with this technology will be left behind. And that’s not limited, at all, to the writers or developers or marketers among us. People have experimented with getting everything from medical diagnoses to musical compositions, from 3D animations to poems written in the voice of an outer space cowboy (not to mention, the bible verse below…) from GPT. It’s not a sector or two that’s facing this enormous change, disruption, and innovation. It’s kind of… most office-based sectors. And what a daunting prospect.
Again, Open AI’s chat bot only launched in November of last year. This is moving at light speed.
Perhaps this is what the dawn of the digital computer felt like in the 1950s to human computers? As astrologer extraordinaire Chani Nicholas noted, this new dawn is in line with what happens whenever Pluto changes planets. Pluto is currently moving into Aquarius. Don’t roll your eyes at me: the last time Pluto changed signs was in 2008 (remember any significant changes that year?) and the last time it was in Aquarius specifically, in the 1700s, we had the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
(This quippy TikTok was maybe prescient because electricians, plumbers, etc, are probably safer now in terms of job security than the rest of us…)
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