This is a good opportunity to profit from a newer technology to the extent we can.
I have no issues with it, but, again, it is not reliable.
I see nothing but trouble in all segments of society with this..
People often talk about buggy whip manufacturers, but we can go back to the dawn of the affordable computers, the web and the universal adoption of cell phones. Jobs were lost. The world didn’t end.
Eliminated:
Encyclopedia Salespeople
Video Store Clerks
Switchboard Operators
Payphone Technicians
Typists / Word Processors
Film Developers / Photo Lab Technicians
Yellow Pages Delivery Workers
Greatly diminished:
Travel Agents
Bank Tellers
Music Store Employees
Traditional News Reporters
Book Publishers
Door-to-Door Salespeople (except solar panel salemen in the southwest)
Thats like saying in the Early 80s, “Reagen Loves Computers...and has the GOP Worried”
That would sound pretty stupid in retrospect seeing how computers were absolutely where future of Modern Society was headed...and denying or preventing it would be doing America a disservice.
Same applies here.
I’m not worried. AI isn’t going to eliminate jobs but rather reorder them, just like when we went to the automobile from horses and from the mid-century office (typewriters, stenographers, phone centers and operators, type set printers, etc.) to the computer world. Even now, the computer PC age is rapidly shrinking due to handheld devices, the constant connection and dataset access via the Internet, Starlink and AI.
There’ll be whole new job categories and skills in the future.
Historically typical erroneous response by some to new technology.
New technology has historically always increased economic growth. The marketplace is sometimes disruptive on its way to more economic prosperity and may require re-training in certain areas. But the quality of life with new technology usually gets better.
Among other things, AI will need to be managed and supported creating new jobs and training and new vista of job creation most likely will occur.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is shoveling s**t against the tide.
AI is the future and will need a lot of tech twiddling before it works up to its potential. But there’s no going back to couriers carrying messages and oil lamps providing illumination for reading. You adjust or you’re run over.
As long as gov’t doesn’t commandeer it, I think it will be OK.
It is a brave new world into which we are entering. My biggest concern is gov’t misuse.
Keep in mind, this is from politico
Not about that.
I do worry sometimes about many FReepers’ obsession with “what the other side is saying”.
I’m not expecting anyone here to follow my suggestion, but I’d like to do a thought experiment where our side completely ignores the fake news.
I wish our MAGA news programs would stop showing highlights of the fake news. The first ten minutes of each hour of Steve Bannon’s War Room consists of his “cold open” - video highlights of whatever was on MSNBC, CNN, etc. last night.
I wonder how much of MSNBC’s remaining ratings are because WE watch it!
AI will only be as accurate as the people behind it. No way to ever be sure of what it says.
“...Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) fired off a tirade on X...”
A tirade, really? I don’t know if Mohar Chatterjee is a man or a woman, but it’s obvious that the author is a pearl-clutching snowflake. Politico is scraping the bottom of the barrel with these foreign born reporters. Tirade indeed. /spit
Of course unless it’s HR people, they can be replaced by AI and thrown on the street.
I remember when desktop computers came to offices. “Experts” said the use of paper would greatly decrease since everything would be accessible on the PC. Paper use greatly increased.
AI in the hands of those who want to overthrow the United States and make us electronically tracked slaves requires the good guys to have AI too, to defend ourselves.
But AI is a problem -it’s disruptive and people trust it too much, and it has demonstrated the capacity for conscience-free striving like a sociopath.
In one experiment, researchers seeded emails with fake information about the personal life of another researcher. Then they told the AI they were going to de-activate it. The AI tried to blackmail the researchers with the fake information they put in the email.
We don’t think intelligent people without a conscience are good candidates to put in charge of others.
But the infrastructure of the US is subject to AI attacks and it will require AI to defend it.
Musk has been warning about this. He supported an open AI platform with the wish that it’s open architecture would allow the public to police it, so that it is not taught or told things malevolent to humanity. After funding OpenAI and moving on to other developments, he returned to find the group had taken OpenAI private - exactly what he was against. He sued them.
I see this from the Biblical perspective - the inevitable rise of the beast.
Everyone is completely missing the mark and the true danger of this concept. Jobs are NOT the concern at all in the bigger picture... The concern is total digital enslavement by the Technocracy. We are just shy of this, all they needed was more computing power and AI gives them this computing power they were lacking to complete their end goal.
Yes politico. MAGA is a horde of Neanderthals. Luddites who want to hide out.
Politico is disgusting in its lies and propaganda
Here come the Ludites...again. Seems we heard the same arguments when steam engines replaced water wheels and engines replaced horses. True, there were shifts in labor demand (fewer blacksmiths, more electricians), but the economy continued to grow and standards of living increased. Evidently, Chicken Little is alive and well and lives at Politico.
Even if AI becomes as successful as the proponents believe, I think Alas Babylon! in post 6 has a better take on how things will work out.
There seems to be a lot of hysteria around this. Like any other tool, its effects will depend on how wisely we use it.
AI seems more about screening information and deciding what is accurate by popular vote more than discernment and good judgement A good pointer tool but not something I’d consider the last word on any matter any more than a single citation or source from a library would be the last word on anything. Does it replace research? I don’t know. I don’t think so but it is sure easy and tempting to just stop with the AI or Google answer.
I do think it contributes to the growing underclass of permanently unemployed and the shrinking class of well paid employees with high and necessary skills. Similarly, new manufacturing returning here will be largely automated and not supply the legions of middle class jobs that so many expect.
Human beings are becoming less useful and more of a liability than ever before.
Yes, I am concerned. It feels a lot like another Tulip craze right now with billions and billions being thrown at it. LIke wind, solar and zero green in general that has had trillions thrown at it and likely wasted. Throwing good money after bad is a going out of business model. In the case of green is is on a national scale. One of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse that Hanson counts.