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Obviously it kills jobs -but that's made up for by the value AI gives enterprise departments and agencies. As a business owner it's clearly more advantageous to
by rnd0 2y ago
Obviously it kills jobs -but that's made up for by the value AI gives enterprise departments and agencies. As a business owner it's clearly more advantageous to cut out paying the middleman when you can just type in a few prompts and get custom fit solution for whatever project you're working on.
It's progress and efficiency. It's advantageous to the people with the purse strings and only hurts the people whose skills are no longer required.
The inequality will continue indefinately; AI isn't going anywhere. At least that gives us all (the laid off and the replaceable) more time to catch up on classic tv: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27...
- devbent 2y ago> It's progress and efficiency. It's advantageous to the people with the purse strings and only hurts the people whose skills are no longer required. Until there is no one left to buy the actual product, at which point those on top suffer as well.
- rexpop 2y agoOr will they transfer to feudalism?
- bluefirebrand 2y agoMaybe I'm crazy but the picture you're painting sounds like it will lead to the death of society to me
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- squigz 2y agoWhy didn't this happen with literally any other technological progress that has resulted in job losses?
- N0b8ez 2y agoBecause there were other jobs, since there were still jobs that humans could do better or cheaper than machines could. An AI that is able to replace humans at every currently existing economic activity is probably going to be able to replace humans in whatever new industries are created in the process. What's left for humans to do, but receive UBI?
- squigz 2y ago> An AI that is able to replace humans at every currently existing economic activity Except this isn't close to reality.
- bluefirebrand 2y agoWe weren't talking about reality we were talking about a hypothetical future after this slope has been slipped If it comes to pass it sounds very grim And it does seem like the direction we are heading in, with less and less likelihood of slowing or reversing course
- generatedtruth 2y agoThe grim future you are painting is one where humans have no jobs because everything is automated. So then we can just play games perform art and let ai do all the crap. Sounds good. People who own the land/resources will want to be paid and there will always be jobs for performers, custom chefs, machine maintainers, teachers of how ai works, politicians that govern use of ai in and across borders. Stop being a child and think about how the world works.
- orbital-decay 2y agoI think this is myopic and you're the one describing an utopia. Or a dystopia, depending on how one looks at it.
- bluefirebrand 2y ago
- paulddraper 2y agoFarmers went from 70% to less than 20% of the population in a single lifetime. How frequently do you lament their disappearance?
- drekk 2y agoThe health and environmental impacts of centralizing and industrializing food production are lamentable, even if most Americans don't think about it.
- hazbot 2y agoLess lamentable than the health impacts (famine) of not centralizing and industrializing food production!
- N0b8ez 2y agoCentralizing and industrializing food production has its own famine hazards, like if a strong solar flare were to happen.
- paulddraper 2y agoAssuming it were feasible, do you wish you were a farmer?
- tail_exchange 2y agoI may be in the minority in this very diverse crowd, but yes, I would prefer that over my corporate job.
- paulddraper 2y agoYou would certainly be in the minority. The vast majority of mankind has left farming, once the opportunity presented itself.
- hazbot 2y agoIt would certainly radically reshape it. Maybe the end state is a utopia of human flourishing where no one has to do the shit jobs and we direct AI to create a paradise. Maybe the ends state is a cyberpunk dystopia where power and wealth concentrates in the hands of those who control the AIs, and the masses fight each other to have the opportunity to sell their soul to be a suit while the rest starve. Maybe AI progress takes a surprisingly long time, and the next 100 years sees a gentle continuation of the 20th century automation trend. But I'd be surprised if we could put the genie back in the bottle.
- tuatoru 2y ago> Maybe the end state is a utopia of human flourishing where no one has to do the shit jobs and we direct AI to create a paradise. So AI can repair sewer pumps? Since when?
- user90131313 2y agoonce we have a remote operators and capable dumb robots in few years, it will require a lot less working people to repair those? once robot is at certain location, operator will connect and with help of maybe 1 onsite worker it will mean a lot less working man and man hours? normally maybe 5 people would drive there for 2-3 hours and work on it? but with robot, remote operator, who has an experience will be able to fix many places in a day, across the country? send the robots and connect at certain hours, then request them back to warehouse. sounds possible to me.
- mptest 2y ago>The inequality will continue indefinitely Uh, only if you don't vote for politicians who believe in reducing inequality??? Kinda silly to act like inequality is an innate force and not something we control with governments...
- paulddraper 2y agoInequality is an innate force. Obviously.
- rnd0 2y ago>Uh, only if you don't vote for politicians who believe in reducing inequality??? Perhaps things are different elsewhere, but here in the US the only politicians with a hope of being elected (democrats and republicans) owe their campaigns to the very same holders of purse strings. Believing that inequality will be solved by voting is complete idiocy. Trite as it might be the saying "if voting changed anything it would be illegal" has been demonstrated to be true time and time again in recent decades. Voting is a sick joke. Feudalism (on a global scale) is inevitable.
- pennomi 2y agoAlternatively, if prices stay affordable like they are currently, it democratizes skills that are required to do something interesting. I see it as empowering for very small creators. Let’s say I’m an animator but can’t make music. Now I can add moderate quality custom music to my animations and make indie animations entirely solo. That was impossible before. And let’s not ignore all the great artists out there who struggle programming in their game engine, and can use AI to hack together basic interactivity. Is it better than a professional? No, but it allows a solo artist to craft an experience entirely solo. AI does for a lot of things what the internet did for publishing - give everyone the power to do it themselves at a smaller scale.
- LocalH 2y agoWhat good does it to do make corporate things more efficient if you also drastically reduce the total number of jobs and make it where the average person has no money to buy your precious goods? Make no mistake, so-called "AI" will end up taking away every non-menial job if we don't reign it in somehow, or start providing UBI.