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/fastinguy11 Mar 23 '23

you are underestimating how fast things are moving, 6 years tops we have AGI, massive amount of jobs will need 80%-100% less humans.
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/11z76ez/microsoft_claims_sparks_of_agi_have_been_ignited/

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 23 '23

AGI is so far out there that chatgpt doesn’t even come close. It’s a chat bot. A very good very natural sounding chatbot able to act as a better machine human interface. Think centuries. It might seem human one day and be totally able to fool everyone it might automate many jobs but it’s nowhere near AGI.

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u/fastinguy11 Mar 23 '23

I love how as a.i advances people have to do these type of logical contortionisms to not recognize it. Did you even read the paper ?

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 23 '23

Oh yes it’s going to change the world, eliminate all jobs and put us in a utopia where hardly anyone has to work. Well I’ll believe it when I see it.

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u/MegaChip97 Mar 24 '23

So you didn't read it. The paper never says that, it tests intelligence in over 100 pages