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Businesses and wealthy people want AI so they can lay people off and hold onto their money, and build stuff faster to capture more marketshare / power. There w

Businesses and wealthy people want AI so they can lay people off and hold onto their money, and build stuff faster to capture more marketshare / power. There wasn't demand for computers either. Or, the industrial revolution. AI is a competitive advantage for those that can leverage it.

Swizec 2y ago
Consumers ask for AI all the time. Their requests sound like this: - "Google search is drowned by SEO, I can't find anything anymore" - "Wow all these ads suck" - "Ugh my social media is full of hucksters and bots" - "My job applications all go into a black hole" - "LoL gmail can't even find emails I know are there" - "Ffs stop autocorrecting to duck" - "Oh wow we can't even say 'vagina' anymore because The Algorithm" - "Support doesn't even read my message, why do I bother" - "I can't keep up with all my inboxes" - "This meeting should've been an email" - "The press release makes no sense, can someone translate corporatespeak?" - "Ecomm sites are awful why can't I just find what I'm looking for?" etc. We already use AI for all sorts of things. This will only accelerate. Half the things that used to be AI aren't even called AI anymore. That's because "AI" is a marketing label. When a technology becomes mundane, it ceases to be called AI and we find something new.
- Jasper_ 2y ago
  Those sound like requests for not AI. > "Google search is drowned by SEO, I can't find anything anymore" It's now powered by AI. [0] > "Wow all these ads suck" Well, they're powered by AI. [1] > "Ugh my social media is full of hucksters and bots" Yeah, mostly because the social media feed is all low-effort stuff generated with AI. [2] > "My job applications all go into a black hole" Likely because of an AI screening tool. [3] [0] https://blog.google/products/search/how-ai-powers-great-search-results/ https://blog.google/products/search/how-ai-powers-great-sear... [1] https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/ai-powered-ad-solutions/ https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/ai-powered-... [2] https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-basically-unusable https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-bas... [3] https://compensationxl.com/companies-are-using-ai-in-their-hiring-processes-it-may-be-filtering-out-the-right-applicants/ https://compensationxl.com/companies-are-using-ai-in-their-h...
- singleshot_ 2y ago
  Are you sure they’re asking for AI? It sounds to me like they are asking for the Internet to be turned off.

Swizec 2y ago

Consumers ask for AI all the time. Their requests sound like this: - "Google search is drowned by SEO, I can't find anything anymore" - "Wow all these ads suck" - "Ugh my social media is full of hucksters and bots" - "My job applications all go into a black hole" - "LoL gmail can't even find emails I know are there" - "Ffs stop autocorrecting to duck" - "Oh wow we can't even say 'vagina' anymore because The Algorithm" - "Support doesn't even read my message, why do I bother" - "I can't keep up with all my inboxes" - "This meeting should've been an email" - "The press release makes no sense, can someone translate corporatespeak?" - "Ecomm sites are awful why can't I just find what I'm looking for?" etc. We already use AI for all sorts of things. This will only accelerate. Half the things that used to be AI aren't even called AI anymore. That's because "AI" is a marketing label. When a technology becomes mundane, it ceases to be called AI and we find something new.

Jasper_ 2y ago
Those sound like requests for not AI. > "Google search is drowned by SEO, I can't find anything anymore" It's now powered by AI. [0] > "Wow all these ads suck" Well, they're powered by AI. [1] > "Ugh my social media is full of hucksters and bots" Yeah, mostly because the social media feed is all low-effort stuff generated with AI. [2] > "My job applications all go into a black hole" Likely because of an AI screening tool. [3] [0] https://blog.google/products/search/how-ai-powers-great-search-results/ https://blog.google/products/search/how-ai-powers-great-sear... [1] https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/ai-powered-ad-solutions/ https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/ai-powered-... [2] https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-basically-unusable https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-bas... [3] https://compensationxl.com/companies-are-using-ai-in-their-hiring-processes-it-may-be-filtering-out-the-right-applicants/ https://compensationxl.com/companies-are-using-ai-in-their-h...
singleshot_ 2y ago
Are you sure they’re asking for AI? It sounds to me like they are asking for the Internet to be turned off.