AI isn't the problem, capitalism is.
Exactly, AI is only scary if you need a job to survive.
If AI takes work from us, we should be freed by not having to work, not doomed to starvation.
The current economic status quo is entirely unequipped to deal with the next couple of decades, and the options for progressive change are dwindling.
I'm absolutely not calling for revolution right now, but the glacial rate we're evolving our economy is going to make it inevitable or else we'll be left with some kind of Mad Max hellscape before the century is out.
I also find AI taking other people's jobs depressing. Whenever I purchase something or need customer service, I'd always rather interact with a human than AI
Specifically capitalism paired with zero sum game mentality.
If someone is convinced the only way for themselves to win is to make other people (including me) lose, that's where the biggest problems happen.
They don’t want to look at the big picture, they’d rather focus on rage bait articles
I would argue that too much centralization in any economic system is the problem.
People are increasingly worried, full stop.
Doom loop news cycle doesn't help.
Social media even moreso than news, for younger audiences. Doom posts gets engagement.
I think people have always been like this. Listen to any two people talk, it is just natural that they will talk about something that makes them nervous. It is like salmon returning to the spawning ground, humans discussing fears.
Yeah, cruel fact about humanity. All these great technologies could give us luxury space communism in 100 years or so, but that won't happen. Shitty people will be shitty and these technologies will be used for shitty purposes or intentionally stunted.
We could already be having that, maybe minus the space part.
I don't like Worried Al. I want Weird Al back.
Weird Al never went away. He still drops albums from time to time.
He has announced he's likely finished releasing albums due to timeliness concerns and waning interest in the format. He'll probably just release singles as he comes up with them from now on.
Even the occational movie.
Go to any McDonald's drive thru with the automated ordering. You will realize it is already making life worse.
There's a issue with this title, and it's not the word "AI".
It's the word "Will".
It already did.
I came here to say this. We've had threats of "AI" for a while, and initially, it should have been better, but it wasn't. Look at the latest voice assistant from your favorite large corporation spy gadget, like an echo dot. The voice assistant sucks. It constantly misunderstands you, half the time you get feedback like "I don't understand" despite asking for something you've asked for before, in the same way you've asked before, and had it do something before, but now, no, fuck you.
Responses are repetitious and boring, like "playing (song) by (artist) on (streaming service)" or "turning on x lights".... Always the same, always boring. Ask about almost anything beyond a function, and usually you get a quote snippet from a webpage you've never heard of, which only mentions whatever you asked for and doesn't provide any actual information 90% of the time. It would be more useful for it to respond with "I found this on the web" followed by the sounds of hippos farting.
This is the "AI" we had until now, and it's the AI we constantly interact with. None of the star trek computer level intelligence where you can ask your assistant to increase the illumination, and have it do something because it understands the intent behind what you're saying, not just running a select statement on your literal words... And that's even if it understands at all. You don't see Will Riker standing there arguing with the computer like "no, I asked for a coffee" while the replicator is populated by a cookie.
Then LLMs go into widespread use and the system shits out stuff like chat GPT which most people can't seem distinguish from talking to a person, and now we live in this hellscape. AI chatbots are now selling us shit, replying to our emails, posing as real people even....
And I'm just talking about speech-based AI.... Don't get me started on the insanity of image AI.
It already has. Autocorrect has gone to compete shit. Online news reports have become nothing but buzz words. Internet searches have become useless.
All of these are results of companies switching from simple algorithms that were already proven to work just fine to "artificial" intelligence which is practically useless at this point for anything other than deep fakes or eldritch horror images.
I’m worried because AI is supposed to be sorting trash, cleaning sewers, and other laborious work. Instead we got AI trying to take the jobs of artists. 🤦🏽♂️
This just in: people are gullible as fuck and will believe anything the media (and certain overzealous social media owning billionaires) tells them.
How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse? I can't think of any problem in my life that more tools and methods would work against solving it.
"[Eli] Whitney believed that his cotton gin would reduce the demand for enslaved labor and would help hasten the end of southern slavery. Paradoxically, the cotton gin, a labor-saving device, helped preserve and prolong slavery in the United States for another 70 years."
What problems will get solved? “Our ads aren’t effective enough? We have to pay people to do things when we could be putting it into profits? We’re charging less rent than we think people will pay, but we don’t know how much? People have gotten savvy to my latest scam.”
The capital holding class will be the ones using ai to their benefit. The dishonest will join them. We may get some concessions here and there, but they own them.
How can having more tools to solve problems make things worse?
Depends on who's using it and for what purpose.
Well, for one clearly this creates more mechanisms to exploit the poor. Especially if we chose to regulate as slowly as we have with other tech in the past.
The AI is in the hands of interests who think you are the problem.
(They don't like me either.)
Every other technical innovation has made the average person's life worse. Why would this one be any different?
What an absurd thing to think.
Great counter argument lol.
I might as well argue that the sky is blue. There are countless ways technology has benefited humanity, it's sort of ridiculous to say otherwise outside of some thought experiment.
It is not shocking that people are worried about AI impacting their lives negatively when nearly all of the main stream coverage of it centers around all of the ways, both real and conspiratorial, that it will hurt them.
No, people are concerned other people are using AI for dirty shit that will end up making lives harder for 90% of us ... you all know which 90% ...
Of course they're worried. They're being told to be worried.
AI is making my life way easier and better so far.
So easy that your employers will no longer need you in a year or two.
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