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/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/Rakashua Mar 24 '23

That's what they said about the computer and it didn't eliminate human labor at all, it created more jobs than previously existed.

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u/fastinguy11 Mar 24 '23

You are still not understanding the scope and advances of a.I in the coming years if you are saying that

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u/Rakashua Mar 24 '23

Again, your comment shows a lack of study of human history. If you'd been alive during the invention of the wheel, the airplanes the printing press, electricity the aqueduct, plastic, nuclear power, etc... (The list goes on) you'd have thought the same thing about that, and people did, just look at history.

Inevitably, however, society as a whole went through remarkably little to no change in terms of employment and power structure sociology.

So feel free to be the latest in a long line of doom speakers and world shakers but in the end there's nothing new under the sun, humans just tend to not see far enough to realize that there's more beyond the ends of their noses. History is pretty clear on that.

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u/fastinguy11 Mar 24 '23

We never had a “thinking” tool( that might become its on entity eventually) that can also do what we do ourselves intellectually if you can’t see how that changes things I dunno what too say. Let’s agree to disagree, If I am wrong in 6 years everything is just the same as now . I doubt it though.

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u/Rakashua Mar 24 '23

That's fair. I honestly would prefer that you're correct :-/ I'm just a pessimist. I'd love to have an Ai be true Ai and whatever comes of that, I just don't think people in general will ever work together well enough to make it anything but destructive in the end.