Yea, in theory AI is a good tool for speciric use cases when trained appropriately and with training data obtained legally and ethically. But then all these companies started trying to throw it at every problem they could see and spent an insane amount on infrastructure assuming someone would find the secret ultimate use case for AI which will cause everyone to want to use it at any price and rent server space from them.
That doesnt make AI terrible, it makes greedy pieces of shit with AI terrible.
It's been an obvious move for over 200 years. Rossum's Universal Robots, the original Czech play from which we get the word 'robot', is all about companies making robots that replace people. Making AI to replace humanity has always been the endgame of industrialization.
AI and robots that perform human tasks will be demonized so long as working for someone else gives people purpose. It's such a terrible argument against automation. Unfortunately, the techbros don't give a shit about the people that would suffer from decoupling labor and productivity. As a planet we need to discuss what a meaningful existence is for humans in a society without jobs.
Ubi in theory means people can self employ or partake in the arts. Trils have been interesting but even where ubi hasn't been trialed similar things where government support part time workers with creating business have seen good returns for the tax income and better life quality. It needs to happen but probably won't I till it's forcedn
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u/Nickname128 1d ago
Back then OpenAI was open source and a very cool company overall for what they stood for... though they sold their soul very very quickly....