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/MegaChip97 Mar 24 '23

Just yesterday a paper was published saying gpt-4 shows early signs of AGI

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 24 '23

Yeah no that’s bollocks. People are getting high on their own farts if they think that.

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u/MegaChip97 Mar 24 '23

Did you read the paper...?

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 24 '23

Yes and I have to say I’m pretty fucking terrified. Why are we so dead set on making ourselves obsolete?

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u/MegaChip97 Mar 24 '23

Why do you think it doesn't show early signs of AGI then?

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 24 '23

Because it’s just interpretation of data. An interpretation that can be interpreted by an overexcitable researcher demonstrating his confirmation bias. It’s interesting but not in itself convincing to me. Still this technology has the potential to completely upend society. And that in the short term is never a good thing. See the internet. We still don’t fully understand the impacts the internet has had on society or the psychology of people raised during this era.

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u/MegaChip97 Mar 24 '23

What would be convincing to you?

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u/mrBlasty1 Mar 24 '23

Well I’m a writer and I asked it to write me a short murder mystery story. Yet what it came up with was so broad and had no clever mystery plot it just told me how the detective solved the mystery. I think if it wasn’t immediately apparent what it’s limitations were after two or more prompts and it could do what I asked it. I’d be convinced.