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Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achie

by sho_hn 3y ago

Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achieve equivalent results. The other one aims to strap screens to other people's faces to keep them even longer in a perpetually-online computer bubble of their own choosing, because that's been going great for society so far.

croes 3y ago
>potentially saves people time And potentially kills people's jobs, potentially helps spammers and phisher to start larger and better campaigns, potentially increases the amount of fake news, disinformation or just bullshit.
al_borland 3y ago
Those are some upsides of AI, there are also many potential downsides that could be very harmful to society, more so than some AR goggles. Time will tell how it all plays out. Apple is also invested in AI, they just refuse to use the AI buzzword, and use ML instead, which is probably the more accurate term.
tivert 3y ago
> Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achieve equivalent results. Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before?
- paradox242 3y ago
  Once content generation has been completely commoditized the platforms relying on user submitted content will collapse under the sheer weight of AI generate trash. Part spam, part DDoS, the bad will drive out the good until we settle at some even lower equilibrium than we are at now. There will be a strong incentive to find solutions with technology and regulation to determine who the actual humans are on the internet.
- dartharva 3y ago
  > Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before? What does that even mean? When has human knowledge ever gotten "swamped" by the capability of creating newer content?

by sho_hn 3y ago

croes 3y ago

>potentially saves people time And potentially kills people's jobs, potentially helps spammers and phisher to start larger and better campaigns, potentially increases the amount of fake news, disinformation or just bullshit.

al_borland 3y ago

Those are some upsides of AI, there are also many potential downsides that could be very harmful to society, more so than some AR goggles. Time will tell how it all plays out. Apple is also invested in AI, they just refuse to use the AI buzzword, and use ML instead, which is probably the more accurate term.

tivert 3y ago

> Ok, so one of those technologies potentially saves people time and levels the playing field by enabling the use of computers with less special training to achieve equivalent results. Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before?

paradox242 3y ago
Once content generation has been completely commoditized the platforms relying on user submitted content will collapse under the sheer weight of AI generate trash. Part spam, part DDoS, the bad will drive out the good until we settle at some even lower equilibrium than we are at now. There will be a strong incentive to find solutions with technology and regulation to determine who the actual humans are on the internet.
dartharva 3y ago
> Did you forget allowing the sum total of human knowledge to be swamped by dogshit, because it allows for the creation of dogshit at scale more cheaply than ever before? What does that even mean? When has human knowledge ever gotten "swamped" by the capability of creating newer content?