Ilia Shumailov: preference

Transcript context

…So I mean, maybe maybe for our audience too, part of the idea here is that more and more people are gonna be producing more and more content that's that's generated by AI and putting it on the Internet, which then goes back into the data the data corpus, which the future models are trained on. Yeah. So there's this, you know, so everything's becoming more and more Gen AI. And I think there's another very worrying component about this, which is there's been some publications, research, commentary, whatever that as people become more reliant on on gen AI, then the built in human skills start to atrophy. Like, start developing less programming expertise because we don't need as many programmers anymore. We start developing maybe our mathematical expertise wanes, writing becomes, you know, less of a skill set. And so then the the amount of human generated tale, unique, intelligent content goes down even more. So it's not just that it's being overrun by a deluge of, you know, Gen AI content, but legitimate human content is decreasing too. I mean, is it that kind of worrying? I mean, yeah. But I don't know what's gonna happen. I think it's anyone's guess. It's clearly a progress though. Into a delta function. I think it's clearly a progress, though, I have to say. Like, at least in my personal experience, like, I find myself being able to do more. Like, the amount of electronics I ended up fixing myself just because I can go and get a supervisor to tell me, oh, this is fine to do this. Or when I can figure out why the washing machine is broken or why the fridge is broken, how to update parts here and there, or the amount of data sheets you can read now, the previous completely impossible. Like and now you can just arbitrarily ask questions about a data sheet written in Mandarin that, like and you can't even decipher what the character is, and it tells you exactly what you need to plug where. It's it's it's truly, like, increasing the quality of life in in parts maybe which are very specialized to my my existence. So I'm not sure how general this is, but my life is definitely much better. Why does bottle collapse happen? Is it just because there's lots of noise? Or is there actually a deeper reason?…

Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.