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> Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) learns from the collective intellectual and creative output of humans and uses this to dispossess workers of their live
by imgabe 2y ago
> Today, as artificial intelligence (AI) learns from the collective intellectual and creative output of humans and uses this to dispossess workers of their livelihoods,
Has anyone actually lost their job to AI yet? At best it helps some workers do their jobs faster as many innovations in the past have. Historically, this increases the amount of work expected to coincide with the capacity for doing work.
For example, CAD software replaced hand drafting. This didn't remove jobs, clients just expected things to be designed faster and in greater detail than they were before.
Maybe before we start patting ourselves on the back and handing out free money we should have a concrete example of an AI doing actual useful work without any human intervention.
- tempfile 2y agoAre you arguing that technology never forces people out of their jobs? Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them. They might end up doing something better, or something much worse, or just die and get replaced by a new generation with different skills. There are many examples from history going in either direction.
- imgabe 2y agoThe total number of jobs increases. Logically, it has to. Population increases. There are more people now than there were in the past and there is not massive unemployment, so there must be more jobs than there were before.
- tempfile 2y agoWhat does that have to do with my comment? I said: > Note that even if the total number of jobs stays fixed, it doesn't follow that the same people are doing them.