• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    At a beach restaurant the other night I kept hearing a loud American voice cut across all conversation, going on and on about “AI” and how it would get into all human “workflows” (new buzzword?). His confidence and loudness was only matched by his obvious lack of understanding of how LLMs actually work.

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        I would also add “hopeful delusionals” and “unhinged cultist” to that list of labels.

        Seriously, we have people right now making their plans for what they’re going to do with their lives once Artificial Super Intelligence emerges and changes the entire world to some kind of post-scarcity, Star-Trek world where literally everyone is wealthy and nobody has to work. They think this is only several years away. Not a tiny number either, and they exist on a broad spectrum.

        Our species is so desperate for help from beyond, a savior that will change the current status-quo. We’ve been making fantasies and stories to indulge this desire for millenia and this is just the latest incarnation.

        No company on Earth is going to develop any kind of machine or tool that will destabilize the economic markets of our capitalist world. A LOT has to change before anyone will even dream of upending centuries of wealth-building.

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        2 months ago

        AI itself too i guess. Also i have to point this out every time but my username was chosen way before all this shit blew up into our faces. Ive used this one on every platform for years.

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      2 months ago

      Some people can only hear “AI means I can pay people less/get rid of them entirely” and stop listening.

      • anon_8675309@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        AI means C level jobs should be on the block as well. The board can make decisions based on their output.

        • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          The whole ex-Mckinsey management layer is at risk. Whole teams of people who were dedicated to producing pretty slides with “action titles” for managers higher up the chain to consume and regurgitate are now having their lunch eaten by AI.