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To me, AI feels like the morbidity of Star Trek teleportation, where it's actually copying the person at to the other end and zapping the original one out of ex
by make3 4mo ago
To me, AI feels like the morbidity of Star Trek teleportation, where it's actually copying the person at to the other end and zapping the original one out of existence. The original human never benefits from the fast transportation.
Similarly, we're creating tools to improve knowledge, but we're progressively zapping the human out of the equation. Knowledge is created for something, but it's unclear if very soon humans will be able to understand it, or really benefit from it, except billionaires, etc.
It's too bad that we're not improving humans nearly as fast as we're replacing ourselves.
- Nesco 4mo agoYou lost me at “except billionaires”. I don’t see how Jeff Bezos benefits from this one much more than let’s say Terence Tao. Can a tech news stay a tech news, without getting bombardes with leftist subtexts all the time?
- SpaceNugget 4mo agoBeverse they are benefitting from the financial situation of owning the ai companies that are getting pumped massive amounts of money, not from the debated usefulness of the output of the LLMs.
- pocksuppet 4mo agoBillionaires are going to benefit from AI at the expense of everyone else. That's not leftist ideology, that's just a fact. That's happened with every technology that's ever been created. It happened with the industrial revolution. Why would it be different this time?
- marand23 4mo agoA few years ago i had laser eye surgery and now i can see well. Something that was not possible 50 years ago. Claiming that EVERY new technology comes at the expense of normal people is an absurd statement.
- fc417fc802 4mo agoComing at your expense and benefiting you in some way are not mutually exclusive. For that matter coming at the expense of the average joe and then many years later benefiting the average joe seems to be a common theme.
- NiloCK 4mo agoWhat do you think of things like the changes to infant mortality or life expectancy between the industrial revolution and present day? EG, my own oldest child needed a surgery at birth that would have been logistically impossible even 50 years ago. I'd say that she and I have benefited enormously, despite not being billionaires. edit: I solemnly swear that the sibling comment with the strikingly similar "impossible 50 years ago" claim is a pure coincidence and that I at least am not a bot campaign. Haha.
- marand23 4mo agoI mean, i can assure you that I am not a bot either, but wouldn't a bot say that? :p But yeah, quite a coincidence that we both chose 50 years :)
- Schlagbohrer 4mo ago"leftist subtexts" such as an understanding of capitalist economics in which the people who own everything benefit from the economic activity being done underneath them.
- thegrimmest 4mo ago"leftist subtexts" that treat this as a problem, and not as the single largest driver of growth in human history, to which we owe all of the material comfort we now enjoy.