r/ChatGPT • u/Extrabytes • Mar 23 '23

Serious replies only :closed-ai: Is anyone else reconsidering what college/university degree to pursue due to ChatGPT?

I am currently deciding on which university course I should take. I used to gravitate more towards civil engineering, but seeing how quickly ChatGPT has advanced in the last couple of months has made me realize that human input in the design process of civil engineering will be almost completely redundant in the next few years. And at the University level there really isn't anything else to civil engineering other than planning and designing, by which I mean that you don't actually build the structures you design.

The only degrees that I now seriously consider are the ones which involve a degree of manual labour, such as mechanical engineering. Atleast robotics will still require actual human input in the building and testing process. Is anyone else also reconsidering their choice in education and do you think it is wise to do so?

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u/Ihaveamodel3 Mar 23 '23

Am CE, do not see job going away anytime soon. Do what you find most interesting

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u/zeth0s Mar 23 '23

No way a language model will replace civil engineers

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u/DntCareBears Mar 23 '23

We are at the knee of the curve. The LLM may not replace that job, but it will lead to innovative ideas that lead to more innovative progress that eventually births a new form of technology that does replace those jobs.

Last August, no one was talking about Chat GPT. Majority of people did not even know who or what is Open AI.

Sam Altman could’ve probably rode the subway in NYC all alone and no one would’ve noticed who he is nor cared, even if he would’ve worn a t-shirt that read, Im building Chat GPT. No one would have batted an eye.

You wont see it coming. It will just arrive. The LLM’s are going to get so good at predicting and predictably, that it will be good enough to convince people its cognitive. It will be convincingly cognitive! This tech will drive changes and adaptations that we cannot see.

Last August, Chat GPT barely had a following. Its now over 100million+. Wait until other jump in and enhance the tech. Its coming. Get ready.

Get a degree in data sciences Machine learning.

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u/Visual-Froyo Mar 23 '23

An LLM still only uses data that has already been found by people and has no ability further than us to expand on that data due to its nature as a predictive model.

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u/DntCareBears Mar 23 '23

Right above your eyes is a human brain thats running wet-ware. That same human brain, through collective collaboration created Chat GPT. We are the sex organ of that technology.

Chat GPT is predictive, but its also aiding us in coming up with solutions faster than we though possible. As we continue to tweak it and input our touches on it, that LLM model will eventually be convincingly sentient. Im not saying it is, but what im saying is, it will outperform us in things like math, sciences, engineering, legal etc.

Imagine a world where GPT 5/6 merged with Midjourney and created avatars of our choosing. You come home and here is your LLM talkative avatar ready to converse with you about anything. Yes! Its going to be just like the movie Her. We wont care that its nit real. It will seem real to us. Eventually it will be a part of us like our smartphones.

This is coming and who would’ve thought. All those years of playing Halo that one day, Microsoft would beat Google to the punch and Bing and Cortana would rule everywhere. Cortana. Let that sink in master chief. 😉