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I find it rich that this article seems to glorify the proliferation of the Internet itself, completely ignoring that social media has been driving mass addictio
by enzett 1y ago
I find it rich that this article seems to glorify the proliferation of the Internet itself, completely ignoring that social media has been driving mass addiction since the late '00s and that the rich have been growing exponentially richer long before LLMs and the like made their splash. Maybe this is because WIRED's business model requires the existing 21st century media landscape to function.
I'm not exactly an "AI optimist", but this is not constructive journalism by any means. There are countless unaddressed, explicitly tech-related issues that would only further metastasise if we arbitrarily reverted and then halted progress to 2021.
- UncleEntity 1y agoI supposed it could be argued that the proliferation of the internet lead to a massive increase in job growth. AI, on the other hand, is seeming to (promise, at least) lead to the polar opposite.
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoComputers originally felt like they were going to obsolete a lot of jobs too. The Internet is just really good at delivering entertainment to people. Maybe the same thing will happen with AI.
- mystified5016 1y agoThis is the explicit and intentional promise of AI. There is no subtlety here.
- spwa4 1y agoAre you sure it isn't reversed? The economic conditions are such that jobs are being destroyed and AI is used as an excuse, almost a scapegoat, to fire people.
- 123yawaworht456 1y agoso?
- asdf6969 1y agoso most people expect to lose more from AI than they will gain. No amount of AI is going to make up for downward mobility and lost income
- munksbeer 1y agoCapital needs consumers, so the model will adjust to ensure that consumers can afford to pay for what they consume, or the whole thing implodes (including capital). I can't see more productivity making us all poorer, it doesn't make sense. The world has been growing richer every decade.