Just tell the kids that some idiot pays you thousands of dollars every month to help him pick out the right colors. My job doesn't decide my self-worth, it only decides the worth of my bank account.
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I agree. Provided you aren't betraying your own values in the work you do, there's no shame in not taking pride in how you sell your labour. Be are not defined by our jobs.
Marketing people help rich people get even richer by tricking people into buying worthless things for a high price
I don't have a ChatGPT, but someone should ask it about AI Engineers (the ones that create/train AI models, not the ones that are stupid) and see whether it will talk down their job too haha
You actually don't have to "have it", you can just go to the website and use it anonymously https://chatgpt.com/
yea but i dont wanna
I've used ChatGPT a little, particularly a few years ago but still on rare occasion now. I won't bother giving it this prompt and wasting the processing but it probably won't be biased, I've been really really surprised with how critical it is of itself. I think by the nature of the dataset it's trained on (i.e. basically everything), it's not really showing any major bias at the moment. It matches my energy and decries capitalism, AI, OpenAI, Sam Altmann etc in a cartoonish, toadie way.
Sadly I don't think being an AI engineer is quite as bullshit, the obvious allegory is someone who provides the syllabus and marks the exams, rather than just doing addition for rich people.
Imagine you have a really smart robot friend, but it doesn’t know anything yet.
An AI Engineer is like the teacher who helps the robot friend learn things. They give it lots of examples (like showing it pictures of cats and dogs) until the robot can tell the difference all by itself.
They also fix the robot when it makes mistakes, kind of like helping it with homework.
I don't feel attacked, sounds pretty good actually:
Imagine we're building a giant LEGO castle with lots of rooms, towers, and secret passages. An IT infrastructure architect is like the person who plans how all the LEGO pieces fit together to make sure the castle is strong, safe, and has everything it needs, like doors that open and close and lights that turn on! They design how all the computers, networks, and other techy things work together so everyone can use them easily and safely. They also check to see what the computer system needs and find solutions for any problems that might happen.
I tried the exact same prompt with my own profession, the answer is not at all as well put like that. I doubt that was actually written by an LLM. It's more like this:
[lame introductory wrapper, the word "toys" appears]
some bullet points about what I actually do in non-5-year-old language
[lame closing wrapper with 3 emoji]
I'm an industrial mechanic and when my nieces and nephews ask I use big and very precise machines to make things mostly out of steel.
A senior systems administrator is like a superhero for computers! Imagine you have a big toy box full of different toys (which are like computers and programs). The senior systems administrator makes sure all the toys are working well, that they are clean, and that everyone can play with them safely.
If a toy breaks, the superhero knows how to fix it. They also help everyone learn how to use the toys properly so that no one gets hurt. They keep everything organized and make sure the toy box is always ready for fun!
Only the toy box in this case just perpetuates their daily misery while ensuring the rich men that actually own the toys make even more money.
I mean in my case I work in a school that tries to use a lot of open source, at least on the back end, so the toys aren't hastening our destruction as much as they could be?
She's now having an existential crisis too.
That really broke me up.
ELI5 can be done differently, though. I wonder why the LLM chose this way.