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> make Jobs more efficient The important thing here is not if jobs are getting more efficient or not, it's that everyone gets the same boost. All companies wi
by visarga 4y ago
> make Jobs more efficient
The important thing here is not if jobs are getting more efficient or not, it's that everyone gets the same boost. All companies will get the same AI, and that makes people the differentiating factor. Let's stop with the theories of job loss by AI automation, competition will have humans+AI and beat your company that uses AI alone.
The early Google for example was also an AI. But it was open to everyone, nobody got exclusive Google access. So we all benefited equally and there were no overall job losses.
- w4ffl35 4y agoagreed with all that
- ben_w 4y agoSoon after chess AI beat all humans, people found that human-AI-hybrid players were still better than pure AI. That time has past, and now having humans in the team only make the AI worse. Will that happen here? Possibly, but not certain, even with superhuman capacity: I suspect, but am not certain, that art is a peacock tail for humans — a signal where the point is to be extravagant and expensive — which means that all automation of it, including pre-AI automation, results in that-which-is-now-cheap no longer counting as "art" in the minds of increasingly many humans. Some of the famous renaissance still life paintings are recreated a million times a day as people use their phones to take photos of their food. The hard ones are art, the common ones are…?
- visarga 4y ago> That time has past, and now having humans in the team only make the AI worse. Making human-AI teams win sounds like a new challenge where AI could contribute.