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Nice article, great presentation. However, it's a bit annoying that the focus of the AI anxiety is how AI is replacing us and the resolution is that we embrace
by karmakurtisaani 3y ago
Nice article, great presentation.
However, it's a bit annoying that the focus of the AI anxiety is how AI is replacing us and the resolution is that we embrace our humanity. Fair enough, but at least to me the main focus in my AI anxiety is that it will take my job - honestly don't really care about it doing my shitty art.
- nsfmc 3y agohere's another piece in the issue that addresses your concern https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-consid...
- ryandrake 3y agoMore specifically, I think we're worried about AI taking our incomes, not our jobs. I would love it if an AI could do my entire job for me, and I just sat there collecting the income while the AI did all the "job" part, but we know from history (robotics) that this is not what happens. The owners of the robots (soon, AI) keep all the income and the job goes away. An enlightened Humanity could solve this by separating the income from the job, but we live in a Malthusian Darwinian world where growth is paramount, "enough" does not exist, and we all have to justify and earn our living.
- ketzo 3y agoI mean, I definitely hear (and feel) a lot of worry about AI taking away work that we find meaningful and interesting to do, outside of the pure money question. I really like programming to fix things. Even if I weren’t paid for it, even if I were to win the lottery, I would want to write software that solved problems for people. It is a nice way to spend my days, and I love feeling useful when it works. I would be very bummed - perhaps existentially so - if there were no practical reason ever to write software again. And I know the same is true for many artists, writers, lawyers, and so on.
- sushisource 3y agoThe practical reason _is_ that it's fun and you like it. That could be enough. I'm not too concerned about that being a reality in our lifetimes though.
- cmpalmer52 3y agoThere’s no practical reason to draw, paint, play music, or write as a hobby.
- magneticnorth 3y agoAt some point someone said to me, "How badly did we fuck up as a society that robots taking all our jobs is a bad thing." And I think about that a lot.
- bjelkeman-again 3y agoIsn’t the problem that the person loosing the job and income isn’t the same person that owns the robot? If everyone owned a robot and could go to the beach instead it would be nice, except that some would work at the same time and outcompete those that didn’t?
- IcyWindows 3y agoYou make it sound like we all aren't those owners keeping the income? Right now, we all own "robots" who spellcheck our words (editor) , research (librarian), play music (musican), send messages (courier), etc. All these jobs are "lost", but at the same time, we wouldn't have had money to pay these many employees to live in our pocket.
- djmips 3y agoYour job is your art.
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoI live in Europe, so my job is just my job.
- intended 3y agoI dont think that was the point of the article. I think it was clear about how language is not thought. That leads to the intrinsic realization that our physical existence, our observance of reality is what is critical. Also, AI taking jobs at scale is unlikely, the only place its going to do anything is low level spam and content generation. For anything which has to be factual, its going to need humans.