 Greetings everybody, I'm Gerd Leonhardt, futurist in Zurich, Switzerland. I'm getting inundated with questions about chat GPT and generative AI and mid-journey and Dali and all that stuff and one of the key questions is people are asking me is this going to do away with human work and human jobs and to that I would say if you work like a robot, a robot will take your job and I've been saying this for 10 years when it's about technology but now we're seeing more proof of that with chat GPT. If my work is robotic, monotonous, not creative, routine, monkey work, donkey work, commodity work, dirty, dull and dangerous and all of the things that don't require human ingenuity then yes these machines will take over and do that same work for us but think about this for a second. What work that we do most humans do in terms of content creation is entirely robotic. You know the self-driving car makes a great example for this because the self-driving car has been promised for a decade and yes we have Waymo and we have other trials but generally speaking we don't have level five self-driving cars except for experiments. We have level two or three coming and this kind of shows what's happening here is because driving is very much routine to some people in some situations but it's not entirely routine. I think it'll be a long time before we can replace a human driver or a human journalist based on what AI can do. AI can drive me safely when I fall asleep at the wheel yeah that's it can take over and take emergency action and AI can generate great writing when it's about a refrigerator manual but even there there are pieces missing right. AI can probably help me to find new things in my own writing. I use this platform called SudoRite which is very good connecting to open AI's chat GPT but will it really be like me? Will we have an AI that will be capable of foreseeing the future make an observation about what's not already here? I think what we're seeing right now is that AI and chat GPT as an example does not generate new knowledge it just finds old knowledge and brings it out again and puts it together like a like a giant supreme noisemaker and sort of in some people say a diligent bullshitter and as I said in my previous piece on the video it's kind of a stochastic parrot you know combining things from all over the place it can sound amazingly human and real and imaginative and sometimes even funny but behind that is no consciousness right no human agency no understanding no context it's binary and it sounds binary for the most part the pictures are interesting and they can egg us on to create new things right. Will they create music? Of course they are already creating music and that's not really new and it's been said many times I think Jan Le Coon said the other day that what GPT 3 is offering chat GPT is not entirely new it's just coming out in a public model right it's not new there and music can be generated with AI but does it have meaning? I mean it's functional right elevator music background music and sort of robotic music right of course AI can do that but does that have any meaning it's kind of like saying okay I'm going to generate a nutrition fluid that I can squeeze out of a tube and that's my dinner and it's the same then going to a French restaurant well obviously it's not right it will still nurture me you know I guess astronauts have to deal with that every day I suppose but is it food? It's not really food right and I think if we look at content content production I think chat GPT can create interesting content for commodity purposes like real estate listings or you know miserable websites that you may be building you know instant wordpress things you know and I think this is not so much of a worry that it will replace us as creatives I kind of doubt it until it develops really kind of a semi-sentience I think that's quite unlikely the thing I'm mostly worried about is that it generates so much noise so efficiently that a we can't distinguish between the noise the truth on the other hand we can't distinguish between those two things truth and fake because this engine will really do away with that and create amazing stories kind of completely untrue and the other thing is that it will plug social media into like a turbo drive so I can have you know 15 000 bots doing 15 000 messages every 15 seconds having this bot generate answers and interesting ideas that kind of sound like they could be real I think what we need here is a flag right a big red button that says made by or created by AI so that we know how to judge it and even that would already not be too far I don't think or far enough I think we need to have more safeguards to figure out what we can believe or not if there's one thing we need in media is more humans more human storytelling more human collaboration and more truthfulness right and more purpose and this could result 10 GPT and others in a world that has less purpose because the purpose of the engine is just to give quick answers which is very useful but we shouldn't be taken that for the real world you know the real world is not binary it's multinary and I think chat GPT reaches like you know three to five percent of real world level I think the biggest problem we have right now is not that these machines would become sentient right or or knowing or like humans is that we give them too much authority right is that we become like them because you know we become lazy and we just kind of let it go as good enough and that will end up in a world that's based that's becoming kind of synthetic you know synthetic writing synthetic videos synthetic images synthetic movies and synthetic humans have we seen many times in science fiction that is probably not a good idea but otherwise other than that if you work like a robot robot the robot will take your job if you learn like a robot you'll never have a job to begin with I'll see you down the road in the discussion of chat GPT and journal TFI thanks very much for tuning in bye