Google AI making up recalls that didn’t happen - eviltoast
  • loie@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So much this. The whole point is to annihilate entire sectors of decent paying jobs. That’s why “AI” is garnering all this investment. Exactly like Theranos. Doesn’t matter if their product worked, or made any goddamned sense at all really. Just the very idea of nuking shitloads of salaries is enough to get the investor class to dump billions on the slightest chance of success.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Exactly like Theranos

      Is it though? This one is an idea that can literally destroy the economic system. Seems different to ignore that detail.

      • krashmo@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Current gen AI can’t come close to destroying the economy. It’s the most overhyped technology I’ve ever seen in my life.

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          6 months ago

          You’re missing the point. They aim to replace most/all jobs. For that to be possible, it will need investment, and to get a lot better. If that happens, a worldwide inability to make a living will happen. It likely will have negative impact even on the rich bastards.

          • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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            6 months ago

            There’s an upper ceiling on capability though, and we’re pretty close to it with LLMs. True artificial intelligence would change the world drastically, but LLMs aren’t the path to it.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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              6 months ago

              Yeah, I never said this is going to happen. All I was commenting on is how it’s ironic that the people investing in destroying jobs are too myopic to realize that would be bad for them too.

              • Serinus@lemmy.world
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                6 months ago

                They always miss this part. It’s (part of) why the Republicans wanting to be Russian-style oligarchs is so insane. And ignoring good faith government and their disregard for the rule of law.

                Do they KNOW what happens to Russian oligarchs? Why do they think they’re immune to that part of it? Do they really want the cutthroat politics of places like Russia and Africa, where they constantly have to watch their backs?

                These people already have money. Their aims, if achieved, will not make their lives better.

                Many years ago the people who ruled this country figured out that the best thing for them was to spread power and have most civilians in good health. Government by committee and good faith government is less about ethical treatment of citizens (though I appreciate the side effect) and more about protecting the committee and/or the would be dictator.

                • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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                  6 months ago

                  Pretty much the sanest take I’ve read in a while. Thank you for getting it, fellow Lemming.

              • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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                6 months ago

                Ah, I misunderstood then, sorry. But still, even with all the investment in the world, LLM is a bubble waiting to burst. I have a hunch we will see truly world-altering technology in the next ~20 years (the kind that’d put huge swathes of people out of work, as you describe), but this ain’t it.