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Honestly, I feel worse for checkout girls locally - people are more often replaced by improvements to low hanging fruit, and not the emergence of apparently incomprehensively profound.

The truth is that we're impressed by this because it's magic and we don't know how magic - but it still getting way more magic really fucking fast.

Right now it's still and idiot if you're not telling it what to do. Hypnotic babble.

(If you want to be scared or relieved feed it some time series stock data (if it's good it'll end up fighting itself, otherwise it's either stupid or a liar).)

There are some uses easy use cases for it - I really wouldn't mind a GPT bot replacing outsourced call centres.

Improvement of quality and an improvement in service, and no direct impact to the local economy.

Other than that, this all has the booming feel of every other damned tech buzz, can we just cool down on sensationalism and not try and imagine another multi-billion dollar sub-economy into existence?

We already did that with bitcoin, and now we're seeing the end of the magic trick; let's not do it again.

How about a calm objective and public analysis by under-excited experts before we start mining land that simply isn't there?



The outsourced call center is part of the local economy where they live. In some countries contact centers make up a large fraction of GDP


Sure, but it's unrealistic to think that the preservation of foreign economies is going to be any sort of priority over the next few years.


Foreign to who?




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