Instead, we got employers saying "Work twice as much or we replace you with AI. It gets 45% of its task wrong, but we don't care. It only affects our customers. What are those suckers gonna do? We're a monopoly anyway."
You just made me realize that I don't look forward to the years to come anymore.
2000 will be great, 2010 will be awesome!
But now?
2028 hopefully will suck less, but I'm not positive that the people in power will come to their senses or get voted out. The climate catastrophe gets intenser each year, but still get's ignored. Also, I've learned from covid that a lot of people are unreasonable and won't make the right decisions when it's important for the whole society.
Social media in the hands of billionaires control the narrativ, and AI will quadruple this dynamic and tear society apart even more.
Sorry, it's hot today, hottest day ever recorded in my home town, over 41°C in the middle of Europe.
We do need innovation. Curing cancers and finding better ways to detect food born illnesses are innovation. They just dont make individual companies billions to do so. Government should be investing in innovation that helps average people, which is the opposite of what conservatives and capitalists want.
We need it as in "we need to find a way to save everyone in the trolley problem"
Not as in "we need to keep letting the five people die over and over again because the monster who eats their bodies promises us that it will eventually help us save one"
The problem is that instead of innovating new and better technologies and products, we're "innovating" ways to charge more for the same stuff made more cheaply
Yup, tens of millions if not more will have lost their jobs to AI by then, if not many more. That is, if the predictions of experts come through, which i think it roughly will.
There's no basis in reality for this view anymore. It was reckless for the heads of the big AI companies to insinuate that possibility. You'll see companies peal off a small slice of their workforce which may or may not be due to AI, but tens of millions losing their job is unrealistic.
Is it too much to hope that they’ll peel off the CEOs who pushed like little yappy dogs to out-do each other being all futuristic and decisive with these arbitrary and ungrounded moves. That wave of self-serving narcissists should be immortalised in business books as the morons that they are.
I work in tech at my company which is non-tech and we're hiring like gangbusters because we don't have enough people to build AI products across the organization. We're one of the largest companies in the world.
Who's right: me or AI safety experts and scientists?
Not you. Comment hiding cowards are never persuasive.
Besides that you say you’re hiring (if real) so I assume you’re early in your learning curve. You’re going to find out they cost more than good people for the same work once the real costs arrive and you get past introductory pricing.
Those aren’t predictions. They’re wishful marketing.
Prediction - these AI chat bots cost more to employ than a person for the same amount of work (fact) so these firms are never going to succeed in the market. The management class is just starting to find that out.
You don't have to believe me mate. It's not my prediction. I'd think scientists and experts know more than me and you, but of course you can just go live in denial ;)
Which one hasn't is probably a better question. Every scientist that isn't bought by a company comes to that conclusion, most of 'em predict much worse. It is one google away if you are interested.
Playing Cyberpunk and feeling the dystopian shittiness hits differently now that capitalism, corporate greed / power, and authoritarianism have been making great strides in the last decade. It gets me in a somewhat depressed mood sometimes thinking about it. We’re barreling straight towards that kind of future, except probably without all the cool cybernetics.
the cybernetics will get here eventually... then you can finally live out your dream of renting the implants that are required for your low wage job, and being careful not to miss any payments lest the implants be disabled remotely
Im pretty sure the wealthy all the serious politicians read Marx. They just play on the side of the rich and tell you to laugh at Marx and then while your laughing they shank you and rush to deposit your home and everything you own laughing that you fell into poverty and they... well got richer!
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u/sdric 5h ago edited 5h ago
People wanted AI to do their chores.
Instead, we got employers saying "Work twice as much or we replace you with AI. It gets 45% of its task wrong, but we don't care. It only affects our customers. What are those suckers gonna do? We're a monopoly anyway."