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But the current generation AI is readily accessible to everyone, either for free or very affordably priced.
by animuchan 3y ago
But the current generation AI is readily accessible to everyone, either for free or very affordably priced.
- unsupp0rted 3y agoTo be fair, the current generation isn't public. The previous generation is. The current generation is whatever is behind closed doors right now being tested by OpenAI and partners and quietly demo'd to big corps so they can prep. Say the version that can solve captchas with better than human accuracy.
- tivert 3y ago> But the current generation AI is readily accessible to everyone, either for free or very affordably priced. I think the "accessible to everyone" rubric is more complicated than the GP described. It's more like provides similar economic benefits to everyone. ChatGPT may be "readily accessible to everyone," but if it and similar technologies allow significant automation of knowledge work it will not provide similar benefits to everyone, since it will allow the elimination of entire categories of jobs. At least in the short-term "elimination of entire categories of jobs" benefits the ownership class and no one else. If these "AI" technologies also inhibit the ability of those masses of laid off workers to retrain an switch jobs to something with equivalently high wages, then they will make our society even more unequal in the long term.
- animuchan 3y agoTo me it sounds like an impossibly high bar to clear: even plainly giving a person $100 in cash, no strings attached, doesn't provide similar economic benefits to different people.
- gl-prod 3y agoIf you're talking about OpenAI, then nope, it's not accessible to everyone. OpenAI is blocking poorer countries from using its services.