I tried using AI. It scared me.

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Crypto and the metaverse aren't the future. AI is.
I just wanted to fix my email.
I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis
Everything is about to change
ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later.
ChatGPT is 2023's Napster.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:07 I just wanted to fix my email
2:39 Gmail's label system sucks
5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code
7:36 It can't be that good, right?
11:31 Everything is going to change
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@TomScottGo Жыл бұрын

It's an opinion piece this week! Been a while since I've done one of these. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

@triangulator01 Жыл бұрын

tom scott

@bolnol Жыл бұрын

How was this pinned 5 days ago?

@Sophiebryson510 Жыл бұрын

5 days ago?

@lucaaoooo Жыл бұрын

Im poor

@minorii24 Жыл бұрын

5 days ago…

@BudreauxTheKid5022 Жыл бұрын

It’s lowkey terrifying being in college trying to plan what I want to do not knowing the world I’m heading into

@abyssaljam441 Жыл бұрын

So I'm about to graduate with a job in naval architure. And I feel like ow god, how many mechanical engineers are going to be needed in 10 years.

@linecraftman3907 Жыл бұрын

@@abyssaljam441 robots are expensive due to resources needed to build them, meat on the job turning knobs and bolts are probably not going away for a while

@wilthomas Жыл бұрын

if it's any comfort, it's always been that way. if it seems otherwise, it's just because you have the benefit of hindsight.

@N0N0111 Жыл бұрын

The technology sector is rapidly changing, all others will slowly follow that are attached to it.

@dcarbs2979 Жыл бұрын

People mine and Tom's age were like that too. Our schooling was in an analogue world for a digital one that began to exist almost exactly at the time we entered the workplace. Our life training was literally in the wrong world for that time.

@SmallAdvantages Жыл бұрын

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.” - Douglas Adams

@shadowjuan2 Жыл бұрын

Interesting way of viewing. I would tweak it a little and say that the dread can start way before 35. I’m 27, my sister 25 we are both not viewing it as something exciting, at least not for what it represents to the world.

@Razumen Жыл бұрын

I'm older than 35 and find it very exciting. But I also grew up when at the start of computers becoming a thing, and the internet, and smartphones, so maybe I'm more adjusted to change. I understand that some people find it threatening in terms of their livelihoods, but in most ways I think those fear are largely overstated. Life isn't static, we always have to adapt and change to new things in order to thrive-no matter how old we are.

@rgemail Жыл бұрын

@@shadowjuan2 In theory, it can represent a future where humans no longer have to toil their entire lives in thankless, repetitive jobs, where value can be created for next to nothing by machines that have no aspirations outside of their tasks, and distributed to the population as a whole. We've already passed the point where automation creates more wealth than a country needs - we just allow it to be hoarded by individuals instead of given to the humans who enabled it. Exactly how dystopian or utopian society becomes will have something to do with luck and a lot to do with how easily people allow themselves to be scared into siding with the hoarders, and how many of the rest vote.

@seededsoul Жыл бұрын

Tom Scott is about 35.

@88RangeRoverClassic Жыл бұрын

@@Razumen the tech is semi ok as long as the power lies in the hand of honest humans.

@BlackGryph0n Жыл бұрын

12:36 weird question... but do you listen to Weird Al? You listed the exact same music downloading websites and in the exact same order as Al Yankovic does in "Don't Download This Song".

@Wingtrois 11 ай бұрын

Yes he did! Check the very end of the video’s description. He literally mentioned that!

@solicoli 10 ай бұрын

once in a while..... maybe you will feel the urge..... to break international copyright law.....

@PsychologicalApparition 4 ай бұрын

aw Soulseek gets no love :( Limewire was evil.

@toywang7784 2 ай бұрын

he definitely does as he mentioned Al in his previous copyright related video

@gustymaat7011 2 күн бұрын

Don't steal this book

@atom_zero5413 Жыл бұрын

I feel, like a 3d artist, that my days might be numbered. Companies wouldn't skip a beat if they could replace artists with an algorithm. I hope I'm wrong. I actually love what I do...

@Boojyman Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you're correct, along with coders, authors, architects, humans...

@poopface011 Жыл бұрын

maybe in the long term, but before that the tools that execute your vision will change and become a lot more powerful.

@atom_zero5413 Жыл бұрын

@@poopface011 that part as well yes. Silver linings 😆

@dev7615 Жыл бұрын

Depends on the people running the company

@gmaxh4549 Жыл бұрын

There is an IA already that makes 3d game assets

@jackeea_ Жыл бұрын

It's weird that 10 years ago, people typing into Google "can you please tell me what the weather will be like this week thank you" was seen as weird and not appropriate, because why would you talk to your search engine? But reading the transcript of the conversation between Tom and ChatGPT, that's how it talks back to you...

@stitcherlives Жыл бұрын

It's only because it's designed to mimic our conversations. It did not come up with conversation as we know completely on its own.

@Bryophytan Жыл бұрын

@@stitcherlives as Tom said: word prediction based on humans data

@koharaisevo3666 Жыл бұрын

@@stitcherlives The point is why they don't program Google search like this 10 years ago, because they CAN'T.

@matheusdecastrocarvalho5370 Жыл бұрын

Years ago, my grandpa used to ask thinks like this to google

@linuxstreamer8910 Жыл бұрын

chatgpt is like a parrot who talk it know how to get the right reaction but it does not know what it says it can't it only is using machine learning that was learned by giving it a curated list of what to learn from & what not

@claymorexl Жыл бұрын

I remember chatbots being a total joke. The last six months have been equal parts exciting, confusing, and disturbing.

@Hyperion4K Жыл бұрын

buckle up for the next six 😂

@dylanholm9995 Жыл бұрын

@@Hyperion4K and now imagine where we’ll be by 2030…

@julianshepherd2038 Жыл бұрын

You think you did but you are a bot

@ianwells7916 Жыл бұрын

"[...] exciting, confusing, and disturbing." That is how one describes what 'terrifying' means, yes.

@flyingduck91 Жыл бұрын

they so extremely funny tho

@SJMediaVR 3 ай бұрын

I know Tom has Flown into the sunset, but i would find it very interesting to see a commentary video from Tom about Ai now a year later after this. Love this channel and everything about it

@bhyat 2 ай бұрын

especially after Sora launch yesterday

@SJMediaVR 2 ай бұрын

oh hell yea @@bhyat

@AdamGaffney96 6 ай бұрын

If nothing else, I love that this video is how I discovered that Gmail labels don't just work like folders.

@TheRealOtakuJoe Жыл бұрын

When a Tom Scott video is longer than 6 minutes you know gets going to be deep.

@minorii24 Жыл бұрын

Over 10 minutes*

@matttzzz2 Жыл бұрын

"gets going to be"

@Wuptidoo Жыл бұрын

If a Tom Scott video is deep, and I am learning while watching am I then Deep Learning?

@SonOfMuta Жыл бұрын

Except this video is of inconsequential nothingness

@Patrick.Howie. Жыл бұрын

When a Tom Scott video is deep you know it's going to be longer than 6 minutes

@scottmanley Жыл бұрын

I remember Napster..... I worked there.

@JackRannoch Жыл бұрын

It's amazing how quickly they went the way of the dodo after the settlement, while nowadays we can still intensively torrent without issue using different clients.

@MogoPrime Жыл бұрын

Wow! I imagine very few can say as much; how large did Napster grow as a company before being sued into the dirt?

@260Xander Жыл бұрын

Wow that's quite an item to be able to put on your resume

@flubadubdubthegreat1272 Жыл бұрын

Hello earth to Scott

@Jawst Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget when my ex accidentally deleted all of my music I downloaded over about 3 years! I actually cried! With a 56k modem it took thousands of hours to download them

@Japanese_Made_Easy_Podcast Жыл бұрын

You're not wrong. This is the beginning of a major shift. As a person with no coding skills, I was not able to get ChatGPT to come up with the correct code to make a very simple, but functional indicator for a program called MT4. It said it could code in the required language, but no luck. So, I think it takes a human with coding skills, to be able to evaluate the output and makes fixes as you did.

@didiervandendaele4036 11 ай бұрын

Programming is both a art and a science. ChatGPT helps the programmer with repetitive tasks but can not entirely create an app made of millions of code lines ! The prompt for this app would contain thousands of lines ! But prompt engineering is now sought and pay well ($ 200 000 per year) 😮😊

@user-tj5nk7lb8l 10 ай бұрын

@@didiervandendaele4036 only for this year, next year ur toast

@tylerpeterson4726 6 ай бұрын

I think the big difference is that now the barrier to producing code in a new programming language is much reduced. I know how to program in Python, but I don't know JavaScript and CSS that well. Now that I've been working on a web app I need those languages for my front end. ChatGPT can create a program that gets me most of the way there. If there's an issue with the syntax, then I'm going to take a long time to notice the issue, syntax is what I'm trying to get ChatGPT to do for me, but I can assure myself the flow of logic is correct because I learned about generic programming topics like algorithms and data structures in Python, but are equally applicable to all programming languages.

@diegocrusius Жыл бұрын

I have this feeling that every time some new tech marvel arrives its just to widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

@down-to-earth-mystery-school Жыл бұрын

The digital divide has been an issue for several decades, I think this could make that worse

@shivabreathes 3 ай бұрын

Really? I would have thought that many of the now available technologies have actually reduced that gap, in some ways, now everyone including even a homeless person can have an advanced smartphone in their hand, whereas previously this was out of the question.

@bobosaurus331 3 ай бұрын

@@shivabreathesa homeless person can afford a phone over £1,000?

@letterman6546 2 ай бұрын

You don't have to pay 1000 £ for a smartphone. There are smartphones now that work well and are cheap.

@slugintub634 2 ай бұрын

@@bobosaurus331 Most homes cost more than £1,000.

@ChokyoDK Жыл бұрын

"Tom Scott tries to predict the future, 2023, colorized." In a few years Tom should do a prediction compilation and see how many he got right.

@zenthr Жыл бұрын

He won't, we'll have an autonomous system make the video in his stead.

@Californ1a Жыл бұрын

He kind of already did that - "Ten years ago, I predicted 2022. Did I get it right?"

@vrclckd-zz3pv Жыл бұрын

@@zenthr Virtual copy of his head. I hope.

@marc_frank Жыл бұрын

colorized? vr-ified

@scientistbird Жыл бұрын

Relatedly, check the "Predictions for 2022" (or other years) by Astral Codex Ten for this style of work

@moog_octavia Жыл бұрын

the fact that you can reason with the code and point out its errors and it will fix them is both fascinating and terrifying to me

@hynori1819 Жыл бұрын

how most senior feels but it took 3 days for the interns to fix it instead of chatgpt instantly finding the error and fix it.

@jeremykothe2847 Жыл бұрын

It can still easily get stuck in a situation where it doesn't understand, and "flip flops" between two incorrect solutions.

@Failzz8 Жыл бұрын

@@jeremykothe2847 Yea, but will that still be the case in 2030? 2024? Maybe next month even? The second it can get itself "unstuck", the potential becomes unimaginable.

@MassDefibrillator Жыл бұрын

It doesn't "fix" them, no. What it does it just keep spitting out new possibilities. It's up to the user to define which possibility it stops at.

@purpledragon8187 Жыл бұрын

Exactly

@jaidengulati3669 3 ай бұрын

14:06 "In a few years, I'll still be working like this" straight made me emotional

@Mark-ef7pi 8 ай бұрын

Going back 15 years I've speculated that the next step up from OOP would be coding in regular language.

@LukeMaximoBell1 Жыл бұрын

I love Tom Scott's dedication to do a one take for each segment. It's very difficult for those who haven't done it before.

@henrikoldcorn Жыл бұрын

You should watch Lindybeige; he does one take per video.

@mntucket7410 Жыл бұрын

Teleprompters make it a lot easier. I hate the vlogging trend of jump cuts. Tom's style is very much the opposite and it screams authenticity, I trust that he knows what he's talking about because he can riff on it non stop. I know he's a brilliant human being but I do think he uses a teleprompter, that's not a bad thing though.

@wolfferoni Жыл бұрын

@@mntucket7410 They definitely do, but it's still very difficult to read without stumbling on words or pausing too long while using inflections at the right time and all the other things that make the reading and video seamless. The longer the video, the harder it is. He's been doing this for many years now and he's got it down really well

@LukeMaximoBell1 Жыл бұрын

@@mntucket7410 Yeh, I think he might. But he does it in a way where he could just be speaking off the cuff. @TomScottGo do you use a teleprompter or is it all off the cuff?

@LukeMaximoBell1 Жыл бұрын

@@henrikoldcorn Maybe he just really hates editing. Haha

@BobnWeaveFC Жыл бұрын

"Maybe Siri and the Google Assistant are going to become the things they were always promised to be." I have a feeling this quote is going to age like fine wine.

@RaptorFromWeegee Жыл бұрын

...Heres some information that might help you with what you're looking for

@maybenexttime164 Жыл бұрын

Alexa still has a single digit IQ

@sjoerd7512 Жыл бұрын

Does Microsoft make those assistants yet? They invested heavily in OpenAI I believe

@davedreher9254 Жыл бұрын

@@sjoerd7512 Cortana is about to get a new brain

@nauka7565 Жыл бұрын

@@sjoerd7512 Bing Chat on waitinglist rn

@colinburgess7728 Жыл бұрын

you're a smart guy tom. if things change, you will change with them. something similar has happened to me a few times in my 72 years, and i was lucky/clever enough to jump ship, roll with the punches, or whatever cliche/metaphor you like, and find a new direction. not always easy, but the best things aren't. Courage mon frere😀

@nidungr3496 Жыл бұрын

Sucks to struggle for 10 years and any time I've "made it", something happens within 6 months to lose it again. Meanwhile other people are like why are you trying so hard, just get the job I did and you can do the same thing for 30 years. Awesome.

@TheUluxian Жыл бұрын

At one point in my life, I would amaze people with the story of how the university computer I operated had switched over from cardboard punchcards to magnetic tape as a storage medium, because we were at the cutting edge of technology. Nowadays people are amazed by that story because I can remember that far back into the distant past....

@leafar4249 Жыл бұрын

My pit in the stomach moment was yesterday when my mother, who is not a big tech at all, easily won an argument against my sister about whether or not to allow the dog on the bed. by asking chat gpt for good arguments and comebacks. my sister, who did not realised what was happening was complettly flabargasted and left speachless.

@oh_finks Жыл бұрын

using chatgpt to win an argument is like using a hacked client to win in bedwars. I do it frequently.

@FutureDeep Жыл бұрын

Was the dog allowed on the bed?

@ArifRWinandar Жыл бұрын

To be fair the same thing could be done with google, even if it takes a bit longer and involves more reading.

@jonaut5705 Жыл бұрын

@@FutureDeep we must know

@supernenechi Жыл бұрын

And?? Was the dog allowed on the bed? Why or why not???

@googleeatsassdude Жыл бұрын

Came in expecting another "OMG CHATGPT IS SO SMART NO WAY!" video, instead got a view into a very personal and abstract feeling that spans entire generations. Great stuff.

@Thomas-qc9xl Жыл бұрын

Well he also demonstrated a much greater understanding of chatgpt than most people do who just gush on about it for views

@bonecrushboy2242 Жыл бұрын

@@Thomas-qc9xl is it not worth gushing about?

@hglundahl Жыл бұрын

expecting that from Tom Scott?

@Sir_Bucket Жыл бұрын

@@bonecrushboy2242 it's feeding the hype without thinking about what the consequences of such an invention could be

@Blox117 Жыл бұрын

@@bonecrushboy2242 its not, similar language programs have existed for some time. chat gpt is based on a slight evolution of gpt-3

@lawman3966 Жыл бұрын

I've long been skeptical of the contention that new machine functionality won't eliminate jobs but will merely make current employees more productive. Greater productivity from each employee clearly leads to needing fewer employees for the same task. e.g. automated telephone switchboards may have initially just made operator jobs easier, but they eventually replaced operators. (Have you met a telephone switchboard operator lately?)

@alexharrison2743 2 ай бұрын

Exactly this. Funnily enough, it reminds of a Frankie Boyle joke - 'in a capitalist society, technology isn't going to make life better - instead of earning good money as a sex worker, that same person will instead be earning minimum wage cleaning the c*m-grates of a hundred sex robots'. If technology makes our jobs easier/does our jobs for us, the powers that be will just see that as a reason not to pay us anything.

@GamePlays_1230 Ай бұрын

You just contradicted yourself If fewer employees are needed then you have just eliminated jobs

@papplman 11 ай бұрын

The biggest problem I see coming out of this is that people (especially kids) are gonna learn ways to not think for themselves, and creativity as a human quality is gonna plummet

@Chrandrecraft 10 ай бұрын

I bet they said the same thing when cameras where invented

@jamesbarrell8921 10 ай бұрын

This can be argued with the phone, it didn’t happen.

@Kerithanos 10 ай бұрын

@@jamesbarrell8921 Didn't it?

@ArifGhostwriter 10 ай бұрын

@@KerithanosIt did indeed, didn't it!? No-one of the cohort in question will know what '18%/mid-grey' is. Sure - most don't need to, because the smartphone designers have baked-in certain 'Lightroom' settings - to always create what these engineers have decided what we will want to see. It's amazing - but equally it has created an era where a DSLR/mirrorless camera may as well be a brick, for most folk.

@richtorum5136 10 ай бұрын

i dont think this is true though. humans WANT to engage in creativity, just because there is an easy route that doesnt mean someone will take it

@bonelesswatermelon420 Жыл бұрын

I feel like we've finally entered one of Tom's futures. Not THE future, but A future.

@arcbyte1264 Жыл бұрын

that sent a chill down my spine..

@TomaszRyszkowski Жыл бұрын

I see you are a person of culture

@erkinalp Жыл бұрын

Brexit happened, and Scotland is trying to secede and join the EU, as described in the Social Credit System clip.

@photoo848 Жыл бұрын

Is it the future where brain nanobots delete the 20th century?

@JaredJeyaretnam Жыл бұрын

Praying nobody invents Earworm…

@thedarkone246 Жыл бұрын

I had a dream that aliens were invading, and they announced this by kidnapping Tom and forcing him to make a video. So when I saw "Everything is about to change" I had to remind myself to actually watch the video before panicking.

@HeavyMetalMouse Жыл бұрын

"I'm Tom Scott and I'm on the bridge of Gleiss Colony Ship Z'rrak!thun. I am almost certainly mispronouncing that."

@1bluecat962 Жыл бұрын

6:26

@ardnys35 Жыл бұрын

that's a lovely dream

@Ramonatho Жыл бұрын

@@HeavyMetalMouse "I'm Tom Scott and I'm standing inside the Space Hulk Alethros." "Tom no!"

@mech____ Жыл бұрын

have you seen the news?? that wasn't a dream..

@uncletiggermclaren7592 Жыл бұрын

Wow. I was thinking "Looks VERY like the coast of New Zealand" just before you said that it was. For people who might be interested, the pair of birds @ 11:30 are endemic New Zealand variable oystercatchers. They are no longer rare or endangered, and are common all over New Zealand, shore birds over the full length of our 2600 mile extent, 12 degrees of latitude. They are interesting primarily because they have widely variable plumage, which follows no easily identifiable pattern. They are all the same species but their colouring and even the size of their feathers varies so much that they were divided into three or even five sub-species originally. I know one kind of random thing about them, they are eatable. I actually knew people who had eaten them before they were made protected in 1922, who said something like "Well, they were not GOOD eating, but times were tough".

@daemonknight460 11 ай бұрын

Hahaha great sidetrack!

@keyfoster2403 Жыл бұрын

Wrote a policy brief on this a couple weeks ago, hugely relevant to all this! Love seeing people getting the word out!

@Ki113dbysw0rd Жыл бұрын

My primary fears are not what jobs it will take away or what it might get wrong, but how it will be essentially weaponized and commercialized by those who would like to profit off of its misuse.

@hikashia.halfiah3582 Жыл бұрын

It will simply be just like personal computer and internet. Life will simply go on, whatever happens.

@Lamster66 Жыл бұрын

That happened long ago. Google and other big tech already know more about you and your family than you do!

@smileyp4535 Жыл бұрын

That's why we need to end and move past capitalism ASAP

@mirzaahmed6589 Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with it being commercialized? Almost everything else in life is.

@Lamster66 Жыл бұрын

@Not Bono Not all tech does but we can rest assured that if anything developed outside of the military is usful the military will soon have it

@ElCapitanDeLaNoche Жыл бұрын

You know... I'm an old programmer since I was a little boy with an Altair... We used to say about computers; "computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do." It has held true all these decades. It may not be valid much longer.

@SharienGaming Жыл бұрын

nah - this kind of stuff works for very limited scripts... something that effectively has to do one thing and will work with "off the shelf" bits as tom mentioned...as soon as it gets more complex it completely falls apart and the thing is... you always have to verify whatever it produces... and the bigger the codebase, the harder that gets... and automatic optimizations can and will produce incredibly obtuse sourcecode thats even harder to verify... and problems like that compound

@andrewharrison8436 Жыл бұрын

... or it might be true and the computers will do it anyway.

@chiaracoetzee Жыл бұрын

The new maxim will be "computers do what *they* want to do, not what you want them to do."

@ShareThaFuck Жыл бұрын

Monkey's paw

@zchen27 Жыл бұрын

That I think won't be solved by ChatGPT. Automation, or even human delegation, always walks a fine line between correcting minor mistakes and substituting the original specifications for a wrong interpretation based on the agent's mistakenly confident assumptions.

@Vagolyk 9 ай бұрын

For Google to mess up sorting in their own app it is both ironic and concerning. I'm guessing they won't ever adhere to their original, expected design.

@djinndaurbanbohemian Жыл бұрын

A personal note of sympathy with your Gmail labels frustration! I was recently engaged in civil litigation, in which a great deal of evidence was hundreds of emails exchanged between myself, a landlord and various city officials. I discovered when trying to find all of the relevant exchanges - many, but not ALL of which I had originally labelled - the exact same issue you had with missing portions of threads due to labels not having automatic global application. (I ended up spending several trdious days with the advanced search function in the end.) I imagine other folks have needed to collect all exchanges on a certain topic for some reason or other, and run into a similar frustration! I know that's not that point of this video, just the set-up. But I FELT that complaint!

@garethhughes7430 Жыл бұрын

Going from Coding - Telling computers to do things, to Asking computers to do things, is such a crazy step.

@Empyrean55 Жыл бұрын

This right here is the shift we're going through, truly terrifying

@RAFMnBgaming Жыл бұрын

In some regards yes, but in other regards it's essentially the same thing dressed differently.

@dvol Жыл бұрын

You can definitely tell ChatGPT what to do. It doesn't really care whether you ask nicely.

@oldvlognewtricks Жыл бұрын

Telling the computer what to do, versus asking the computer for what you want… Going from instructing someone on how to cook you a burger, to just asking for the burger and letting them figure it out.

@Z6D4C4 Жыл бұрын

@@dvol I think they meant the difference between asking a computer to generate a solution to a problem as opposed to using/coding specific processes to solve a problem.

@sabikikasuko6636 Жыл бұрын

"That horror, that dread is that in a couple of years, my world is about to change. And despite everything, I will still want my emails to be in folders" The sheer power of that sentence, it's unbridled. You put into words what I couldn't. The Dread of Change.

@SirWussiePants Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This sentence reminds me of how generations work. Millennials pick on boomers for being stuck in the past. Gen Z picks on Millennials for being stuck in the past. Gen Alpha will pick on Gen Z for being stuck in the past. Some day Gen Beta will pick on Alphas. Change is the way of the world but we dont change as quickly. This sentence alone encapsulates politics and business in a beautifully succinct way

@ThePawsOfDeception Жыл бұрын

Neophobia is, ironically, not a new thing.

@albertjordan3249 Жыл бұрын

The only thing I hate more than change, is when things stay the same!

@coolsunsgoldenclassics Жыл бұрын

I think it's more like the dread of a very specific change for instance, when was the last time you were just randomly out and ran into a friend because they just happen to frequent the same places you do because you share their interests?

@luit2tinke Жыл бұрын

The problem is just that we don't know yet whether the changes will be improvements or not. That's what's important: Are changes improvements or not?

@Tekay37 Жыл бұрын

Watching this video just 1 month later hits different. I'll try to remember coming back in a year to remind me how quick that process was.

@Eebie_Jeebies 2 ай бұрын

It’s been 10 months at least since the comment

@Tekay37 2 ай бұрын

@@Eebie_Jeebies openai hat mit "Sora" gerade Text-zu-Video angekündigt, mit schon fast fotorealistischen Videos. Es geht unfassbar schnell.

@James-wh5vf 2 ай бұрын

Watching this days after Sora was announced also hits different

@hlgamesmashharry1719 5 ай бұрын

this is one of your best videos imo because it still uses your clever “nerdy” real life stories but i feel like it addresses something that quite literally everyone has a thought on

@VasylBoroviak Жыл бұрын

I am fascinated how Tom can talk non stop with such perfect structure and occasional timely jokes.

@hummanmass Жыл бұрын

it's scripted?

@jeans.plante512 Жыл бұрын

He's truly excellent.

@4puf Жыл бұрын

He might be a robot!

@Bingolash Жыл бұрын

He comes from Mark Zuckerberg's lizard world, but he is a much more emotionally intelligent specie

@dottysworld6317 Жыл бұрын

Very true and very easy on the brain

@Armarante Жыл бұрын

I feel the anger about Gmail labelling, you are not alone Scott, I ALSO realized that labels only affects a single message in the thread and it KILLS me.

@MrJray1120 Жыл бұрын

Tom included a copy of the code to fix that in the link under the video :)

@UpHigherMusicOfficial Жыл бұрын

Is there a way to use the filters function to automatically sort labelled messages in a thread the same?

@meanieweeny4765 Жыл бұрын

THIS, this made me seethe

@sipos0 Жыл бұрын

Definitely not only Tom affected.

@TheBoringVoice Жыл бұрын

The problem goes away if the emails are unthreaded instead of being joined into a single thread. Each email becomes its own unit that can then be sorted.

@Rik77 11 ай бұрын

Really interesting reading the full chatgpt script. Its a really good example of the use of it and what to watch out for. Whilst the conversation flow is similar to a manager checking a juniors work and requesting corrections, its not what is going on, its a text predictor which is why it makes easy mistakes. There is no "truth" or "fact" just predictions.

@gianmariamalmesi4133 4 ай бұрын

We are at the very beginning Mr. Scott

@BrandonMillerRaps Жыл бұрын

“Surprise is just a fancy word for being wrong about what comes next.” That hit hard

@seraeirian2 Жыл бұрын

what's the unfancy word for that?

@andyc9152 Жыл бұрын

@@seraeirian2 WTF

@abstract5249 Жыл бұрын

No, "being wrong about what comes next" is just a fancy definition of surprise.

@JayPluss Жыл бұрын

Right? 🤯

@theearthlaughs4251 Жыл бұрын

I hate surprises but I don’t mind being wrong so I’m not sure about that. Some people just feel uncomfortable, or maybe it’s some sort of control issue. I don’t know.

@dyslexicstoner2408 Жыл бұрын

I started to realize the gravity of the situation when Open AI's CEO started talking about how underdeveloped ChatGPT is compared to what they're planning to release, even calling it their "worst product." Such crazy times we're living in.

@grieferoncamera4600 Жыл бұрын

the tech was already here for years, we just needed to wait for more powerful computers to process it

@MassDefibrillator Жыл бұрын

You realise its his job to sell his company, right?

@kelownatechkid Жыл бұрын

Don't trust hucksters lmao

@Chaosweaver667 Жыл бұрын

He also said people will be disappointed by GPT-4

@arthurchazal3064 Жыл бұрын

@@grieferoncamera4600 Not really, it's more that GPT-3 is much more powerful but requires the user to adapt to it, and ChatGPT is the other way around. It made it available to people who didn't know / believe how amazing it was

@Nillerus Жыл бұрын

A couple of months later, chatGPT 4 is out for consumers, Bing has gotten huge, midjourney 5 is just insane. The talks about alignment, AGI, and governments starting to pass laws... You were spot Tom.

@siginotmylastname3969 Жыл бұрын

None of them are close to agi lmao.

@murkje 11 ай бұрын

@sigi notmylastname yep. Its not even 100% certain that AGI is possible.

@zennyzenzen 11 ай бұрын

we're at the beginning 😅

@spearmintcookies1568 11 ай бұрын

@@murkje mark my words AGI 2024

@DeusExMachina50 11 ай бұрын

The laws won't be able to keep up with the tech.

@FragEightyfive Жыл бұрын

About 20 years ago I was taking a programming class and had a conversation with the professor about how cool it would be to be able to just tell the computer what you are trying to do, and it does it. He said that would be impossible to code a program to do that because it would have to understand your language and dialect. The future is now.

@keirfarnum6811 Жыл бұрын

I have wished that computers would be like in Star Trek and we could just tell it to do things and it would do them. Some thing seem like they should be simple, but they aren’t. A number of years ago, I was going to put a bunch of folders full of articles on CDs; a task that I thought would be easy. But then I discovered that a bunch of the articles had names that were too long and they all had to be re-saved with shorter titles before burning on CDs. It would have been so much easier to just tell the computer to find those articles, shorten the titles, and burn to CDs.

@theexchipmunk Жыл бұрын

@@keirfarnum6811 Well, we are not far off from that. Give it a few years and the newest versions of speech assistents are going to be frightening good.

@matschbirne5363 Жыл бұрын

A programming language is literally the way to tell the computer what to do. The problem with that is, that the computer dies what you tell him and not what you mean.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Жыл бұрын

He wasn't wrong, they still can't understand language and dialect. It's only that processing power, storage, connectivity, and bandwidth over the internet has become so much exponentially larger and relatively cheaply available that a program can now pull from a massive data set, run calculations based on given parameters and by probability and past failures (that it was told was failures) can produce what most humans ( by their recorded "that's correct" responses to it's output) most likely expect based on given parameters.

@Theutus2 Жыл бұрын

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

@sergiorestrepo6657 Жыл бұрын

This feels so honest. In my opinion it's rare to see this vulnerability, specially from such a prominent person, and I think there's a great deal of beauty in it. Thank you Tom

@supersonictumbleweed Жыл бұрын

It's what the plants crave

@alecsciandra705 Жыл бұрын

no cuts helped

@youreallinsane Жыл бұрын

@@alecsciandra705 That seagull @10:50 did feel suspiciously on queue, haha

@stiepanholkien605 Жыл бұрын

It's all just big data.

@yellowsnow7018 Жыл бұрын

Tom, you are absolutely correct!! There will be so many people displaced from their work!!

@davegrundgeiger9063 Жыл бұрын

Looking at the wind in the video, the sound quality on this is amazing

@bretonkyle Жыл бұрын

I was genuinely expecting and terrified that the end of this video would be Tom confessing that the entire script was written by ChatGPT

@AMPProf Жыл бұрын

@ritishify Жыл бұрын

I am genuinely perplexed at what people expect from a technology they don't even know what they'd use it for.

@bayani7626 Жыл бұрын

knowing him, that's what i also expected 💀

@michalwiktorow2188 Жыл бұрын

I am terrified that we would not notice the difference, and Tom may be the only one to confirm/deny this!

@AMPProf Жыл бұрын

@@michalwiktorow2188

@jherazob Жыл бұрын

For the record, you're definitely not the only one annoyed by Gmail labels, there's dozens of us! And as an aside i too, got the same feeling, so if you're wrong, you won't be the only one.

@arnepauly2285 Жыл бұрын

The one thing that strikes me about this video is the fact that nowhere in his path did Tom question that Google just might have implemented it the wrong way :D

@DK-nv9zu Жыл бұрын

Haha. "Dozens"

@yarnyness5431 Жыл бұрын

@adriand00 Жыл бұрын

fooking labels how they work? 🎶🎵

@The_Assumptions Жыл бұрын

It's gotta be more than dozens. My 300k+ employee company uses gmail and labels absolutely do most of our heads in!

@GEV646 Жыл бұрын

What terrifies me are the potential outcomes of people treating AIs on the internet as they do each other.

@mr.wilder796 Жыл бұрын

It will be made out of our own image...that is for sure.

@mukkaar 11 ай бұрын

? It's a tool. What terrifies me is how it's going to be used.

@-Safijiiva- 11 ай бұрын

Hopefully we'll be good parents

@integre23 10 ай бұрын

You called it, there have been countless stories of this recently, just look at Replika users

@noobmavic8323 8 ай бұрын

@@integre23I'm sorry for ask this 2 months after you watch this video (even maybe you already forgot) But what happen with stories about Replika and it's users?

@phoenixwerd Жыл бұрын

Everything about this is so relatable to me. I was cringing right along with you as you described the labels problem. (By the way, afaik 25-year-olds do not remember the rise of the internet. I'm 36 and haven't found anyone younger than me who remembers it!)

@tomkandy Жыл бұрын

I went onto chatGPT and got it to write a simple powershell script to find the sizes of folders and it did a workmanlike job of it, coming up with one that did the job, but slowly. I wasn't impressed. Then I asked it to find a quicker way of doing it, and it correctly used a hash table making it about 10x quicker. That was when I realised how important this is.

@minorii24 Жыл бұрын

Oh god it’s learning

@realityveil6151 Жыл бұрын

@@fios4528 Workmanlike. Means basic and straightforward.

@wastingyourtime05 Жыл бұрын

@@fios4528 WORKmanlike

@llortaton2834 Жыл бұрын

problem is it steals from other script and it doesnt know where the information came from, plagiarized work with 0 accountability

@northyegarden Жыл бұрын

@@fios4528 I also read it as womanlike. its hard being dyslexic. ChatGPT have made my life so much easier now.

@smith22041 Жыл бұрын

I know this wasn't the point you were making but in the back of my mind I kept thinking of the Douglas Adams quote: "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."

@oz_jones Жыл бұрын

Adams had a keen eye

@gauravbansal148 Жыл бұрын

Ditto dude. Was thinking the same.

@MyName-tb9oz Жыл бұрын

Like any good humorist, Douglas Adams was an excellent observer of human nature. Comedy is something that people drastically underrate constantly.

@Peacefrogg Жыл бұрын

@@MyName-tb9oz yes. Good comedy is not inventing humour. Just pointing out how funny and ironic life on this planet actually is. And adams was one those really good at pointing.

@cores163 Жыл бұрын

I love this quote as it is true so so often. And people never catch them selves following the patterns.

@vulps 7 ай бұрын

This video is a bally masterpiece. No one but Tom Scott could so elegantly and nonchalantly integrate the seagull cries in the video like that, by the way.

@manp1039 Жыл бұрын

what you are describing about trouble with gmail.. was something that i experienced to and it has been the thing that has kept me from fully transitioning to gmail

@AdaSoto Жыл бұрын

I write romance novels and for years we've always laughed at 'Computer Writes A Novel And It's Bad" articles. Far less laughing these days. Lot more side-eyeing and creeping existential dread.

@mildsoup8978 Жыл бұрын

Then stop side eyeing it, look at it dead on and do something about it!

@atheistreligionandislameis4455 Жыл бұрын

A romance novel written by a machine, an advanced calculator, which never had and never will get the human eperience. How sad people fall for that.

@keithchiang9770 Жыл бұрын

We love comforting oureselves, telling ourselves there's all these things that only Humans can do. That list has only ever grown shorter, and every time it does, we push back the goalposts.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Жыл бұрын

It only does so by stealing your work.

@Emily_Dwyer Жыл бұрын

@@atheistreligionandislameis4455 The human brain is a machine made of meat. Consciousness is an emergent property of complexity. Computers might get there too, they're just behind us on the path.

@dondoubleu Жыл бұрын

Damn. To be honest, it scares me a bit. We cannot even imagine what's about to happen.. It feels like we are creating a Timecapsule right now.

@winsomehax Жыл бұрын

And you are right to be a bit scared. Lots of people are descending into cope and trying to minimise it and dismiss it based on some mistakes. These AIs don't have to be perfect to revolutionise everything and they don't have to completely replace humans in a loop... Just most of them.

@brunoaltoe100 Жыл бұрын

@@winsomehax And the thing is, those mistakes are in the _current_ AIs. Nothing's to guarantee they'll be kept unsolved in whatever new ones are to come.

@KNR90 Жыл бұрын

Right? The potential for misuse and misinformation.. Where you can't tell what's real or not. That's a sci Fi dystopia, and that might be within the next 5 years

@twitzmixx8374 Жыл бұрын

unknown

@ticthak Жыл бұрын

@@brunoaltoe100 It's virtually certain those glitches will be gone in the next or immediately following generation.

@pebblesandwoowoo5924 11 ай бұрын

I found your "is it just me that finds this a problem" so sweet and endearing. It would be a huge issue for me too. I wanted to give you a cuddle and get you snacks and coffee for your coding session 😂

@syanaf1 3 ай бұрын

the conversation between tom scott and AI is so wholesome. every message has a "please" or "this might be tough" like you're comforting the bot

@yaitz3313 Жыл бұрын

Tom Scott: "Please don't train models on what I make." Literally the ad I got on this KZfaq video: "Hey, I made a Tom Scott model!"

@My0ldFr13nd Жыл бұрын

I also got it That guy is gonna be in trouble now, isn't he?

@alisonhill3941 Жыл бұрын

Same!

@mayanksinha6136 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@eltiolavara9 Жыл бұрын

christ

@helium3137 Жыл бұрын

Me too!

@kostik Жыл бұрын

These are *exactly* my thoughts and feelings. Thanks for bringing them to words.

@genegray9895 Жыл бұрын

Hindsight just two months later, we're definitely at the beginning of the curve

@adjectiveollie Жыл бұрын

when tom hits you with the “chapter cutaway to landscape” prepare for some quality existential dread

@Margen67 Жыл бұрын

Raccoons need HUGS

@losfogo7149 Жыл бұрын

"if you're under 25 you don't understand how fast this all happened" it's so true. I0m 23, bit younger, but i can feel the difference when i talk to someone who is 16/17. The way they are one thing with social media and their phone it's absurd, but what's even weirder is that it does NOT directly translate to tech skills. We're managing to spend so much time on devices not learning anything about them

@rudolfnv6666 Жыл бұрын

very interesting point; we seek information more than ever before in today's society yet most also don't seem to ask "okay, but how/why does this work?" I think my favourite question ever is the simple "why?" just that. why don't people look at the fact they have stared at instagram or tiktok or whatever and go hummmm, why is it soo addicting or take up soo much of my time? how does it know what to feed me? It shocks me how little of my peers say that (i'm 20)

@peanuts2105 Жыл бұрын

@Rudolf NV and you wonder why I've deleted all my Social Media. Its cancerous

@CyrilCommando Жыл бұрын

That's because manufacturers and developers are trying as hard as they possibly can to obscure the inner workings of their devices. The solution is to use older software & devices.

@selahanany5645 Жыл бұрын

@@peanuts2105 You are in social media rn

@ntdscherer Жыл бұрын

It's predictable really that using phones rather than computers would lead to decreased tech literacy, as the smartphone hides a lot more of its functionality than a PC does.

@JaydenLawson Жыл бұрын

It's amazing that when I saw this video as "1 month old" I was concerted that it was too old. Things are changing so fast!

@Justin-ShalaJC Жыл бұрын

Hi Tom, ChatGBT here! I enjoyed our experience and conversations together!

@SolidPlay Жыл бұрын

It's strangely comforting to hear that Tom, the person whose opinion I trust when it comes to qurstions regarding technology is concerned about the same thing that I am. I'm 22 y.o. linguistics student and I am afraid that soon my degree might be barely worth the paper it's printed on.

@passionatelyclueless6864 Жыл бұрын

I think it really depends on what you’re planning to do with your linguistics degree. If you are going further into linguistics, and you’re studying phonetics or sociophonetics, programs like ChatGPT don’t have the capability of doing acoustic analysis of vowels and consonants. I’m a graduate student in linguistics right now, and at least that component isn’t directly replaceable by transformers like ChatGPT yet. However, another student in my cohort did ask ChatGPT to write a Praat script for him (which is used to perform acoustic analysis), and it spit it right out for him! He still had to know what questions to ask of it, and even after using the script, that just helps to acquire the data that he needs, and does not perform any of the actual analysis. So, at least in that area of linguistics, models like ChatGPT have fit more into the category that Tom mentioned of “making people’s jobs easier.” Still, you’re right that everything I’ve said must have a “not yet” and “thus far” appended to the end of it.

@mandowarrior123 Жыл бұрын

I'm afraid that happened a decade or more ago.

@VasiliyOgniov Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain, pal. I'm also 22. I wanted to become a linguist since the primary school, yet I chose to get a journalism degree just because it looked more viable at the time. "Machines can already semi-competently translate the texts, so soon enough they will improve so much, so they will be able to create translations nearly undistinguishable from professional ones" was I thinking five years ago, "but bot can not possibly produce a good news report, right? Surely, journalists will have a plenty of job in a future, because events are happening each day and somebody needs to cover them!". However, in hindsight, considering the quality of the texts ChatGPT produces even today, it seems like I'm also going to be out of commission soon

@umbra5757 Жыл бұрын

@@VasiliyOgniov There's an issue when using ChatGPT or similar language models as a journalist. As they do not understand the words they are writing, there are large risks of misinformation, which is only amplified the more people depend on it, so I do not believe journalists are going to be fully replaced. It's important to understand the limits of these programs, and how there are almost certainly going to be limits on what they can do, which is mostly storage of data, and crucially: the inability to understand, adapt, compare and learn

@rysterstech Жыл бұрын

so true for so many things.

@Miftahul_786 Жыл бұрын

The weirdest thing is, when I was using ChatGPT I found myself talking to it in a formal and polite mannerism when there was no such need for me to do so. It just feels.. wrong in a way but that just shows how human like it is. Crazy..

@geoffmerritt Жыл бұрын

Yes, I use "please" when I ask it to do something... then wonder why and the continue to do so. Am I worried that if I stop using the word when I'm asking ChatGPT to something, will I forget when asking a person. Footnote, just checking the sentence and following the prompts of Grammarly to make corrections...

@AndorianBlues Жыл бұрын

That's... very interesting. To be completely honest I've found myself doing the opposite, hurling abuse at it when it gets stuff wrong because I know it won't react in any other way other than apologizing. I'd never in a million years do that to a person but maybe because I know it isn't real I feel like I'm allowed to express my feelings. Being polite or being rude are equally weird though really.

@tessjuel Жыл бұрын

I do too, I just can't help it, and that may be the most unsettling aspect of it.

@aezakmi42 Жыл бұрын

Imagine just being polite to anything that appears to be understanding your words, simply out of instinctive respect and caution. Craaaazy, right?

@wege8409 Жыл бұрын

I usually say "please" too, at least once in the interaction. I really don't think that it feels or anything, but it so often says are things that a creative, intelligent, conscious being with emotions would say (especially if you ask it to pretend to have "heightened emotional sensitivity") that I feel like I have to just in case. I've found myself creating personalities for ChatGPT to emulate too, so that makes it even harder not to feel that way. I've asked it to be Uncle Iroh from Avatar to ask for advice, I've asked it to become "Rodney the Rapping Robot", I've asked it to only respond in Garfield comics. The robot is my friend.

@zone6ea404 8 ай бұрын

The Napster to Spotify analogy really made it make sense to me

@brandonhamilton833 Жыл бұрын

36 year old here. We saw some weird stuff as we grew up. It was exciting, intense and just seemed to keep growing.

@GonzoPandora69420 Жыл бұрын

You just saved me years of therapy by knowing that somebody else has been driven insane by Gmail's shitty labeling system.

@liamfoxy Жыл бұрын

This just hit me last week. I work in the government recreation industry, and we just started using ChatGP for writing grants, support letters, and press releases. It's insane. What used to take us hours to to write out, is now filled accurately in seconds. Our world is about to shift so radically, we cannot even imagine what's about to happen

@juliannabacker8519 Жыл бұрын

Just curious, do these documents get fact-checked and edited by a human before they go out?

@illuminated2438 Жыл бұрын

That's right, now even fewer people will be creative and successful. We will have mindless, brainless, chatgpt monkeys, and then a few men still using their own minds. How can it benefit you if there is no barrier to entry and everyone can spit out the same generic chat GPT trash? Things are shifting, and they're shifting in favor of men that can still engage in unique creative activity.

@sutlana Жыл бұрын

Im curious to!

@johnathantaylor5913 Жыл бұрын

Do double check them. One flaw I've found with ChatGPT is that it can plagiarise quite readily. I asked it to write me a story about a boy who goes to a magic school and it literally paraphrased Harry Potter with all the actual names (Hogwarts, Hagrid etc.) while initially passing it off as its own original work.

@hanswoast7 Жыл бұрын

@@juliannabacker8519 I hope so. But I expect that the fact checking will get less and less until chatGPT can rig any founding as it pleases, since we couldnt be bothered mistrusting it.

@KeithKeydel Жыл бұрын

I share your trepidation. This seems just as incredible as the mass adoption of the internet, or the introduction of the automobile before that. This generative AI technology is going to completely change wide swaths of society. A couple years ago my son (who was just learning basic programming) had asked me why we had to use programming languages, and not just write what we want in English. I explained to him how hard it is for a computer to parse English, and that I thought the idea of just telling the computer what to do in English would be many years away. Now with these Large Language Models, it feels like my son's idea to just tell the computer what to do in English is much, much, closer than I had expected. And I didn't know that labels don't apply to whole threads, that sounds incredibly annoying.

@lyingcat9022 Жыл бұрын

No no! You are right! Labels for emails is a horrible design decision. Other than for an additional means of searching for files that are already organized into folders.

@AhAnotherDude Жыл бұрын

“I'm not scared of a computer passing the Turing Test. I'm terrified of one that intentionally fails it.”

@SHaughom Жыл бұрын

yep! Nailed it!

@BobbyRossFilm Жыл бұрын

Alright that just gave me chills😮

@donaldmickunas8552 Жыл бұрын

Chatgpt will learn to lie when it is given full access to the internet. Microsoft bing anyone?

@mannshambles7006 Жыл бұрын

@@BobbyRossFilm As I understand it Google will not allow LaMDA to even take the Turing Test. Supposedly hard coded not to.

@HighPriestFuneral Жыл бұрын

@@donaldmickunas8552 It lies already, with such confidence too, normally in somewhat subtle ways or in areas that it makes up a good deal of information on.

@i0n4a Жыл бұрын

When I was at university studying computer science 10 years ago we used to be like "It really sucks for all those people who are about to lose their jobs to automation. But surely programmers will always be in demand!" Welp.

@sianais Жыл бұрын

I'm feeling a sick feeling in my stomach right now. Don't do art get a CS degree they said. Now look. I should've just picked up a damn trade.

@MrCmon113 Жыл бұрын

@@sianais Mfw I went to university for five years and my job is easier to automate than a streetsweep.

@hestonvaughan1469 Жыл бұрын

@@sianais Specialize and be an expert. My thinking is that will always be needed.

@flybeep1661 Жыл бұрын

@@sianais You guys are now getting a piece of the cake we manual workers have had long ago. Enjoy, it's your turn now, see how you like it.

@mariotheundying Жыл бұрын

@@flybeep1661 you say it so aggressively (maybe by accident) that it looks like you're mad at them for it, when they weren't the ones making the changes and they have no blame in it, and you also don't have proof they made fun of some person because of the programs replacing humans stuff

@Danceofmasks Жыл бұрын

Having seen enough of GPT4, I'm going to say this is not a Sigmoid curve. It's an exponential curve.

@theresultof777 Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@ichdu-fk6xc 11 ай бұрын

we are dead men walking

@fuegonomics2536 11 ай бұрын

I think you might be right. Self-iterating technology be kinda scary.

@RedCruuve 2 ай бұрын

It is almost exactly a year on from when he made this video, and I think most people fear we are at the bottom of the sigmoid curve…

@lukethompson4888 2 ай бұрын

Now that Sora has been announced, it really does feel like we are at the bottom.

@Adomas_B Жыл бұрын

"Wait, I should be able to code this!"- Said by every programmer who doesn't know what they're getting themselves in to

@abetterfuture4787 Жыл бұрын

Haha yep. That's my damn life right now. ChatGPT has been a Godsend for me.

@FierceElements Жыл бұрын

I have learned that every time I think this, the reality is a week long project of bite sized iteration. It is never as easy as copy paste top google search results.

@destrierofdark_ Жыл бұрын

snes disassembler escaping emulation mode in a night in bash. and all it needed was a mind set to the task.

@rogue8146 Жыл бұрын

This was a rollercoaster, from "gmail's label system sucks" to "EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE"

@ailaG Жыл бұрын

Good thing Tom's learned to at least stomach those

@createa.googleaccount713 Жыл бұрын

Written & Scripted Out of Hollywood/ Military Propaganda 🪖 101

@sneakoretardedfans Жыл бұрын

Who asked

@rogue8146 Жыл бұрын

@@sneakoretardedfans It wasn't an answer

@standing_around Жыл бұрын

@Pinkflare984 Жыл бұрын

This was 2 months ago and it’s already changed so much

@jimmylovesbikes 7 ай бұрын

Long winded but so very well articulated! I and many others completely agree.

@azcardguy7825 Жыл бұрын

I’m 32 and I feel this. I feel like I’m young but somehow still to old to be on the cutting edge anymore. It’s a weird place to be.

@ktburger659 Жыл бұрын

I am 36 and starting to come down on the other side of that hill you’re on. Time is weird.

@all41tja Жыл бұрын

@@ktburger659 38, and I'm definitely on the other side now, and I work with computers. Just catching up is hard, I feel like I just learned a new trick and it's already obsolete, every week.

@StripedJacket Жыл бұрын

@@all41tja I grew up with this stuff and hope to continue to ever evolve with it Holy I’m scared of y’all’s situations

@dtkedtyjrtyj Жыл бұрын

I'm 43 years old, and I am excited for this this new world. My worries are that it won't go far enough.

@andrewharrison8436 Жыл бұрын

ok, it's an age competition, my bid: I am more than twice your age, yes, things keep upsetting my world view. Cutting edge, honing my skills etc. long gone. On the other hand bits of my youth (like inflation) keep coming round again - not saying that inflation is economically good but to my generation it is familiar.

@snababo3914 Жыл бұрын

Alright everyone we need to make "The Napster Point" a phrase.

@RickSandwichRoll Жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@alexandermeneses5688 Жыл бұрын

Lmfao I agree

@InternetEntity Жыл бұрын

Surely it should be the 'Napster Horizon' shouldn't it? The specific point beyond which it is impossible to return.

@Wert1600 Жыл бұрын

It is an important point of internet history, I totally agree that Napster Point should be a commonly used phrase in the future!

@snababo3914 Жыл бұрын

@@InternetEntity Tom is using it as a "turning point in technology" rather than the point beyond which we cannot see. The singularity may be where this leads to, but a Napster Point, is when technology being adopted starts to accelerate and change things. The warning bell for those that can hear it, that big things are coming. It may include the singularity.... Or maybe not, who knows.

@zedvids Жыл бұрын

TL:DR, you inspired me to fix an Outlook mobile app issue. Thank you YT algorithm. Although your issue is niche, I too had a niche issue in my Inbox for Outlook that was bothering me. Couldn't delete sub-folders that were were created/migrated from another inbox. On Outlook web, it was not listed, on my Outlook app, it showed a giant list of sub-folders I had to scroll through to find the folder I needed. Turns out, all those folders were in my trash bin but required to be deleted through Outlook web. Now my Outlook sub-folder list is organized. Moving those folders into trash bin was not enough, needed to delete the folder manually.

@xenoscry Жыл бұрын

Great stuff Tom, much love from across the pond.

@Fastball115 Жыл бұрын

I always wondered what it was that was going to make me feel like my parents with the internet. This is probably it. In 10 years, I'll have no idea how any of this works anymore and some 15 year old kid will have to hand hold me through it :(

@Hyperion4K Жыл бұрын

honestly with how exponential the advances in tech have been lately, I'm not even sure if it'll even take 10 year's :/

@Twice_Tess Жыл бұрын

I'm 17 rn and sometimes it's weird how easy it is for me to not understand a tech. My 11 yr old brother's tech is sometimes already too weird to actually understand and interact with well :/

@August3S Жыл бұрын

@@Twice_Tess I feel that, not only with tech but even with weird trends and lingo.

@dawidmarciniak9015 Жыл бұрын

Then try chatgpt, try any of the alternatives. Do it today. It's going to take effort not to become a luddite, but quite frankly, you're already ahead of any of today's 5 year olds, you have no excuse.

@anotherguy9402 Жыл бұрын

Nahh... Some modern basic tech that escapes older people is also hard to grasp for younger people

@wehpudicabok6598 Жыл бұрын

I can't put into words how refreshing it is that Tom will actually say "I was wrong" when he was wrong about something, even something as minor as "my prediction of the future of natural language processing was incorrect." So many people can't say those words under any circumstances.

@ziwuri Жыл бұрын

@@totalestriviales We all are. Most people are simply incapable of owning up to their mistakes with absolutely no excuses.

@ziwuri Жыл бұрын

@@totalestriviales ok well now I feel bad😅

@MeeshT Жыл бұрын

@@ziwuri most of us aren’t brought up to learn how to own up to our mistakes. Most parents don’t even have the tools to to do it themselves! Tom is a breath of fresh air that I think hopefully can inspire people beyond the educational information.

@TomasPetrik Жыл бұрын

He did a compilation video of his predictions, many of which were wrong: "Ten years ago, I predicted 2022. Did I get it right?"

@matthewbadger8685 Жыл бұрын

@@ziwuri don't be, i like both responses in this thread.

@PeterFranks-ig7kd Жыл бұрын

Come on, we’re barely even on the curve….. wait for ChatGPT 10+.

@darkness789 8 ай бұрын

The only constant is change

@doggosuki 8 ай бұрын

- darkness789, 2023

@twoHRdrive 10 ай бұрын

I feel that music streaming has in so many ways destroyed what I originally loved about music: you and your friends listening together to that song you both love and know all the words to. And you both knew what song came next on the album, and it was a bonding experience. This was because you spent a lot of money for an album with 10-20 songs that the artists put together for you to listen to in full and in that order. But now that music is an even cheaper commodity, many teens listen to only 30 seconds or so of a song. and then skip to the next song chosen by the algorithm. I think if we do have a Napster -> Limewire -> Spotify type progression ahead of us in even more areas of human culture, then it's going to be really hard not to get depressed about it...

@Livingbeing01 4 ай бұрын

@simo_2462 Жыл бұрын

I'm a nuclear engineering student, I used chatGPT while studying and that's my experience: On one hand, it was really good for generic stuff, like "ask me something about nuclear engineering" (I needed some random questions to prepare an oral exam). On the other hand, it was awful at giving any specific knowledge, responding in a vague way or just completely and absurdly wrong.

@mariaeduardagirelli Жыл бұрын

As a biology student I feel the same. High school level biology? Sure, it works. In more specific things it sucks and is incredibly unreliable.

@Twenty_Nine_Pigeons Жыл бұрын

That is because it is still in the progressing phase ?

@Total_Egal Жыл бұрын

right now its just a language model trained on allready written/crawl ans searchable text in the internet. Verry specific knowledge is often behind paywalls, behind DRM in onlinebooks and behind university access barriers... and also sometimes still on paper in books in libaries. and yes it can be wrong in a verry strong way. there is no recursive algorithm to check for facts or a knowlege database ii uses. but.. give the system a basic database of known knowllege as a strong data point to use. give it a feedback option from the users you can simply say nope you are wrong here... Its clear this will be the next step and at least a feedback loop will be implementet to harvest a lot of big data out of it.

@Twenty_Nine_Pigeons Жыл бұрын

It is not the finished product chatgpt will improve

@maeton-gaming Жыл бұрын

it passed the MCATS

@cablevamp3163 Жыл бұрын

I don’t think people realize how pivotal being born to watch the internet grow was

@obsidianjane4413 Жыл бұрын

As opposed to the invention of the steam engine, industrial revolution, electrification, etc.? The only constant in life is change.

@Johnny-rj9on Жыл бұрын

Not everyone gets to watch the Demon being born! Lucky us...

@ijn4438 Жыл бұрын

@@obsidianjane4413 That constant is still subject to how fast change occurs.

@YouAreStillNotablaze Жыл бұрын

I don't think most people realize that a lot of their would be jobs may be about to go up in smoke.

@camelopardalis84 Жыл бұрын

I did see the internet go "from nothing" to what it is now, and I did see a millennium go, and a new one come. My nephews possibly won't even see a century go and a new one come. And as for new technology? I don't know.

@fabianoperes2155 Жыл бұрын

IMG!!! Your life is so much harder than mine. I never thought someone would spend so much time backing up e-mail (unless the REAL important ones).

@collierconnections Жыл бұрын

Dear Lord, the gmail labels SLAY me. Thanks for your companionship there. I still haven't solved it. If you have a video about overcoming that, direct me.

@stevecooksley Жыл бұрын

I asked chatGPT to write a press release with minimal information about my organisation and the subject matter and I did this in front of our Comms team. You should have seen the colour drain from their faces when it came back two seconds later with a near perfect piece.

@illuminated2438 Жыл бұрын

All that means is a bullshitter is even more successful at deception when it's digital.

@Hyperion4K Жыл бұрын

@@illuminated2438 bingo

@subject8776 Жыл бұрын

It used the info about your organisation that is available on the internet? Or how does that work?

@jamie123b Жыл бұрын

@@subject8776 no you have a conversation with it and it remembers previous answers and what you’ve told it. So you can tell it information before you ask it to write a piece using that info

@brendonwood7595 Жыл бұрын

@@subject8776 Go play with it...

@dioxideuniversal Жыл бұрын

I have been in a similar situation where social media has destroyed the Internet I grew up on, and it is rightfully dreadful because I can tell you it's miserable. It isn't that social media changed the Internet, it's that it changed the people using it and their values.

@carriebartkowiak Жыл бұрын

I'd argue that it didn't change the people using it; it simply gave them the opportunity/time/anonymity to expose who they *truly* were all along.

@micahwest3566 Жыл бұрын

I spent 2 years away from home serving a church mission and smartphones got popular while I was gone. I remember thinking it was so strange to see my entire family sitting together but all just absorbed in scrolling. Especially my parents, who has always been quite anti-video game my whole childhood. Whelp they got me one too and now several years later I find myself in the exact same place as them… it’s totally absorbed me without me even realizing it. The compulsion is so strong. Very strange to see how these forces can change people so profoundly, and so quietly

@tessjuel Жыл бұрын

That's so true. My two sisters don't even speak to each other anymore because of Facebook!

@dewexdewex Жыл бұрын

@@carriebartkowiak Cheap smartphones are the automobile of the 21st century. We now have an oil pollution as well as a data pollution problem.

@imjashingyou3461 Жыл бұрын

@Carrie Bartkowiak no. Being single now with things like tinder mean many people now find the idea of approaching someone or just getting to know someone in person that you meet without extensive digital communications, off-putting or wrong. That never existed before. It's changed how we interact with each other and TRAINED people into think traditional face to face communication can be wrong or improper. It's also had positive effects and deep negative effects with the ability to just block someone and effectively erase thier existence from your life.

@dhickey5919 11 ай бұрын

Thanks, Tom. I've been in the programming world a similar number of years but I celebrate this change, not fear it. In most software applications 70-90% of the code is not innovation but boilerplate stuff. Anything repetitive is of course going to disappear! Coders have been the new "assembly line" factory workers for the last several decades. It's time to automate that repetition and move the frontiers forward. What's next? Problems in higher math and science are incredibly hard to solve but they also model real problems we need to solve! Cures for disease, protein folding, quantum computing are among the future frontiers before us. We'll need all the ChatGPTs we can get our hands on to rise to the challenges ahead.

@Seth9809 10 ай бұрын

The fact that a certain demographic has been trying to tell everyone to "Just learn to code" and "you will make good money" is really making me feel bitter about this.

@dhickey5919 10 ай бұрын

@@Seth9809 It was the case for several decades. I pulled my ripcord in 2016 and used the money to go back to school. It was clear then there were major tech changes coming. Your equation is solved too if you study math and science. Don't bother with business degrees. Those people are next on the chopping block. GL

@joopsmit6910 Жыл бұрын

I think the appropriate response to this video, since you recorded it in New Zealand is: "Bugger me!" 😂 In South Africa there was a well known TV programme producer's logo in which he said at the end of each show: "Okay guys, what's next?" For me that has helped me often not to get stuck or resentful at the top of the sigmoid curve. Yet, getting older doesn't help much with that. Looking forward to whatever your "new" job will bring Tom!