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Sven Verleyen's avatar

Interesting take on AI. What if AI evolves up to a point that it can translate any business need (your prompt) directly into machine code and make a superfast system for you completely customized with best practices? Surpassing the need of Odoo and even needing a programming language. It would just be about who has the best "ERP-generating AI" also helping you with the prompt. Eventually it will just be you, the business owner, and hardware. Hope there are still a few years before that happens because Cloudpepper would also become obsolete :'-)

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Vas's avatar

In my humble opinion we are many decades away from AI taking over complicated human tasks which involve creativity. GPT4 is being developed as a very well read librarian, who has access to all human knowledge and can summarise and present information in an easy to understand manner for a human.

It can even use that information to complete tasks for you to some extend. It really struggles when it comes to mixing it up and applying logic from one process to another and coming up with creative solutions, and to be honest having looked at its "neural network" it's not being developed towards creativity at all. There's many reasons to that, I recommend Lex Fridman's podcast with Sam Altman if you haven't seen it. Sam talks about how ChatGPR works, the morality problems, dangers etc.

In my experience Consulting regardless of the industry is a back and forth communication and more often than not a creative process. Usually finding the solution to the requirement is the easy part. Locking down the requirement is where it gets tricky.

I don't think AI will replace jobs which require creativity or at least not all of them. There will always be a place for smart humans.

In any case AI probably the biggest thing since the Internet so we're lucky to live in such exciting times.

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Sven Verleyen's avatar

I see your point, but if GPT4 was being developed as a very well read librarian GPT-4, would it still be able to code? It has already been able to code (even if it's not efficient) Odoo modules, games and other applications, which is some sort of creativity. Doesn't this mean that this "creativity" is the only way forward? If not, they'll lack behind the other LLM companies who are more focused on commerce.

I hope the moral concerns about "GPT getting too advanced" is marketing hype and it is still a long way till we get there. I'll check out the podcast, thanks.

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Boris's avatar

On last few months I used GPT4 a lot to fix my bugs in my codes. First at all, it found it but give lot of explanation on everything, why it's not working, how it should be and "opinions".

GPT4 is clearly an "intelligence" even if it's based on word predictions. How is human intelligence really working? What is real intelligence definition? Maybe it less intelligent than human, or just different kind of intelligence. But something that can explain me my mistakes it's clearly a form of "intelligence" (even if I understand totally how it works and doesn't have conscious or so on).

Only in few years the improvement from gpt1, gpt 2, gpt3 and now gpt4 has been so fast and so impressive that I know gpt5 will be outstanding and gpt6 will clearly overpass humans capabilities in most of the field. I'm pretty sure that gpt6 will code good result full application in same level than a junior developer. And this will not happen in 10 years or more but clearly in less than 2 years and we should be ready for it. Lot of low level developers will lose their job. Developers should start now to be chatgpt experts and ceo should stop hiring new developers because soon they'll have to fire them

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