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I don't think it's people in tech specifically - I think that "fire your workers because they're going to be replaced by AI" is a great excuse for firing worker
by Qwertious 3y ago
I don't think it's people in tech specifically - I think that "fire your workers because they're going to be replaced by AI" is a great excuse for firing workers without looking bad. Thus, anyone who might use that excuse has a strong incentive to play up the potential of AI (and thus the plausibility of their excuse), regardless of the actual value of AI.
Also, we're all calling it "AI" for some dumbass reason. That infects our thoughts with unwarranted credit toward the technology.
- throwaway3618 3y agoWe (some of us at least) have been calling simple logic in computer games AI. And an artificial plant means some plastic shaped like a plant, it can't do photosynthesis, it can't grow, it can't reproduce. Meanwhile current AIs can code, explain a joke, etc. After all an artifice: (the use of) a clever trick or something intended to deceive
- beeftime 3y agothey can't "code", they can't "explain a joke", they can output cached human data in such a way that it seems like they're generating these things themselves.
- disconcision 3y agowhat do you mean by this exactly? like whats an experiment which establishes the difference? a lot of human behavior is also only liminally generative cached retrieval