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AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian (amp.theguardian.com)

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Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (14 children)

I don't know exactly where to start here, because anyone who claims to know the shape of the next decade is kidding themself.

Broadly:

AI will decocratize creation. If technology continues on the same pace that it has for the last few years, we will soon start to see movies and TV with hollywood-style production values being made by individual people and small teams. The same will go for video games. It's certainly disruptive, but I seriously doubt we will want to go back once it happens. To use the article's examples, most people prefer a world with street view and Uber to one without them.

The same goes for engineering.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

That’s putting millions of people out of a job with no real replacement. The ones that aren’t unemployed will be commanding significantly smaller salaries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I seriously doubt this technology will pass by without a complete collapse of the labor market. What happens after is pretty much a complete unknown.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I think its fair to assert that society will shift dramatically. Though the climate will have as much to do with that as AI.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

We're seriously at a crossroads, with the people driving the ship desperately trying to steer into "Kill all the unproductives after we automate their work" territory

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