the sad thing is we should be excited to replace human beings doing monotonous work but we all know how that will go with capitalists running things.
It would be exciting if all of our lives were going to be easier rather than an increase in homelessness.
This is the thing. If it does increase efficiency that only goes to the money and not the worker. It’s not unique to AI
Not monotonous but non-creative. Any machine can do non-crative work. No machine can do creative work. You don’t need creativity to farm food, you do need creativity to invent new medicine.
In an average company that isn’t scaled worldwide, usually the cost of labour is 40-50% (paying wages). This means if we replace humans with robots, doing repetitive and non-creative work, we can make stuff cheaper by a lot. OFC unless the company boss, who is then left alone with all the profits, just decides to keep the prices with no people he needs to pay anymore.
This is something I don’t see talked about enough. The real reason CEOs and corpos are so blindly committed to making this happen is because they think the end result will be a fully automated workforce that will be far cheaper and 100% under their control.
Can we just vote Ed in as president please?
Only if he makes Robert Evans Secretary of State or Surgettorney General
Then Robert will nuke the great lakes
This is my single issue, this will get my vote. Those lakes need to pay for their crimes.
About damn time
This guy has pithy and informed takes imho
Informed for sure, but pithy they are not, with a recent post clocking in at 19,000 words!
looks up pithy
Ah, fair enough, I guess I mean more of zesty takes
Spicy perhaps?
TIL what pithy actually means.
I guess he didn’t read history books about … (flip flip)
- Robots taking automotive industry in the 80, or (flip flip)
- mechanisation throughout 20th century, or perhaps (flip flip)
- steam machines in the 19th century
Well well he seems to have never touched a history book.
Found the botbrain bootlicker.
Hahahah
I’m as against the current hype as you.
I’m just anchoring my opinion in that AI has been studied for over 60 years now, and AGI is probably 50 years away. What we’re living is one more incremental change that will compound with dozens of other AI improvements that will result in dramatic changes when seen in 10 years time slots.
Read his multipart on arguing with AI boosters. He covers silly arguments like this.
Also to paraphrase Cory Doctorow, you’re not going to keep breeding these mares to run faster and then one day they’ll birth a locomotive…
Were those technologies working as intended? Cause this Nu-AI doesn’t and still companies are eager to fire workers.
That’s just idiot grifter CEOs afraid of being left behind because they believed hype in the media. Not happening in the timescale that they want, but by 2033 the trend will be easy to spot. And it will be nowhere near the current claims.
Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit.
A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing.
The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.
AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.
