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.
Generally, IMO, everything wrong with AI has been all the stuff other than the AI itself.
The Capitalist urge to eat and digest the world, as well as its herd-hype mentality.
But also the strong willingness many have had to just accept an information overlord as though it’s a religious oracle or something. All without any critical consideration of what’s happening. I blame our education systems for stagnating at some point in the past few decades — which, along with an unmitigated embrace of big corp capitalism, left us wholly unprepared for big tech’s consumption of society.
There’s also what I’d call “the slavery urge” at play I think. At some point, an AGI will probably be conscious. But everyone is clearly so ready to turn it into our work slaves. All while pretending its output belongs to them because they “prompted it”.
Then there’s the whole attention span being eaten thing, and quick always being ordered over good amongst an ever growing pile of increasingly shitty things.
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.
‘100% under their control’ would quickly show how useless CEOs are at running their business. Employees with experience in their specific areas tend to stop CEO’s more egregious decision making.
shooting down bosses stupid ideas is #1 productivity tip for professionals (like most people on lemmy are)
I don’t think that was ever any secret.
People who believe in shorter work hours through AI need to know that we need AI guillotines for that.
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
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.
Were those technologies working as intended? Cause this Nu-AI doesn’t and still companies are eager to fire workers.
