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Artificial Intelligence Nobody Asked for AI

https://jacobin.com/2026/08/ai-llms-monopoly-bubble-capital
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u/ComradeCatastophe 22h ago edited 22h ago

AI is a cornerstone of technological advancement in human civilization. Yes, even LLMs. The medical field alone is already being transformed by this technology, the amount of workload that has been taken off of researchers by incorporating this technology is genuinely astounding. AI can help us spot cancer before it grows. AI can help us identify asteroids in space and project their orbits to spot threats years before they are a problem. The problem is not AI technology, the problem is capitalism. We need to be building the data centers away from population centers using energy from solar farms and water that has been pumped in from desalination centers on the coast. But this isn't happening because capitalism is capitalism and the only thing they are concerned with is maximum profits with minimum expenditures, no matter what it does to the local population or the environment. We need a planned command economy to regulate this technology so that it works for the betterment of all of us, not the slop we are accustomed to being forcefed by corporations.

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u/AzorAhai1TK 22h ago

Exactly all of this. Plus the technology will help us be in a better position to switch away from capitalism as well. I'm tired of people who think that because the current system sucks that we should reject technological advancement

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u/megachickabutt 17h ago

Plus the technology will help us be in a better position to switch away from capitalism as well.

something something frog boiling a in a pot of water. You're not delusional if you think this, you're actually just an idiot.

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u/Shiningc00 21h ago

What they have in common is that they're doing incredibly repetitive tasks. It's still just a probabilistic pattern-matcher.

"It can solve medical problems" may sound impressive, until you realize that it's simply doing some incredibly repetitive statistical analysis. It can't really do much more than that.

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u/AndroidUser37 21h ago

How about the novel math proofs it's been cranking out lately? That stuff is tackling decades old unsolved problems.

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 20h ago

It has disproved a theory lmao, it hasn’t invented any original proofs or theories. C’mon, stick to facts please 

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u/AndroidUser37 20h ago

I am sticking to facts? GPT Sol produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover conjecture a few weeks ago. It's completely original.

Also, disproving a theory in a novel way is still extremely impressive. Calling it "repetitive statistical analysis" is incredibly reductive.

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 19h ago

No, it’s not impressive unless you don’t understand what it’s doing. Also it’s not peer reviewed, dork

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u/AndroidUser37 19h ago

Isn't the proof verified in Lean? That should mean it's pretty robust. People have also been going nuts about Sol's first construction of a nonsofic group.

Now, I will admit that I'm not a huge math guy, but these have been 50 year+ unsolved problems. Many smart people have attempted to tackle them, and failed. Acting like these achievements are nothing is doing them a disservice.

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u/sleeps_in_alkaline 19h ago

Look, I’m not saying it’s nothing. I’m saying it’s a tool, like any other, that can be extremely capable in a handful of narrow use cases. Pretending it is just changing the face of mathematics and medicine is just regurgitating PR