The Ai thread

[Yoused]

 

[Huntn]

AI should be to improve our lives, not replace our livelihoods.

 

[Huntn]

Train an AI up in the styling of 1000 artists, then fire them. Yep....class act Disney.

Disney Fires 1000

and

Disney Marvel Layoffs

If I believed in ghosts, I'd be wishing a haunting of Disney execs by Stan Lee and Walt.

Disney has become evil…. Yes I said it.

 

[fischersd]

AI should be to improve our lives, not replace our livelihoods.


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There's a revolution coming. Governments seems incapable of expeditious action. Any government that attempts to thwart AI replacing jobs will only see those companies moving offshore to more hospitable bureaucracies. Capitalism has been inherently flawed....allowing a handful to attain untold wealth.

We've started to see the jobs being eliminated by AI. (IBM laid off about 8000 last year).

"So far this year, 49,135 layoffs have been attributed to AI", according to this article.

Capitalism (as it exists today) falls on its face when we no longer have enough people working to fund our governments and our economies. The US is already insolvent - owing far more than they can ever realistically repay....getting to the point that they won't be able to pay the interest on the debt.

The only way to keep this society spinning is to embrace Universal Basic Income and evolve our capitalism into something else. Reclaim the trillions held by a handful of people. Free education for everyone. Eradicate poverty and disease. Let's see how many Hawkings there are out there, when given the opportunity to learn.

We need a hybrid of capitalism that rewards people for their contributions to society. Maybe THAT should be the problem that we get AI to solve. In such a society, social workers and teachers would have a more lavish lifestyle than plastic surgeons that only perform liposuction and boob jobs.

Because we have seen all too well how deplorable the teeming masses can be....I suspect we're far more likely to end up in a "Mad Max" world than a Utopia where everyone gets to follow their dreams. Well, provided we don't nuke ourselves and cover the world in radioactive glass first (keep Donnie away from the football!!!)

Happy Monday!

 

[Eric]

ChatGPT made it into an official school textbook.

 

[KingOfPain]

Another death linked to ChatGPT:

“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.

arstechnica.com

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

One of my concerns with AI is it is going to create hivemind for solutions and marketing for "industry standard" software, tools, and hardware killing innovation and alternatives.

I might have already mentioned this, but studies have shown with Google's top AI response a lot of people aren't scrolling beyond that for the answer. A lot of times that could be good enough, but like I said, that can keep new or even better solutions from being found. It's all just based on current consensus. It probably couldn't be a better time in internet history to be the current industry standard.

 

[mr_roboto]

I mean, an even bigger problem is that so-called AI can't even be relied upon to deliver correct "current consensus" answers, as in the story @KingOfPain linked about a kid dying after trusting ChatGPT's advice on what drugs and dosages it was safe to take together.

An even bigger problem than that is that there's no known path for further developing LLMs until they can reliably understand what facts are, because they don't understand what truth even is, and they have no cognition. They're just word arrangers, not intelligences. "Stochastic parrot" continues to be a generally accurate description of what they do, no matter how much it makes AI boosters whine.

 

[Cmaier]

Another death linked to ChatGPT:

“Will I be OK?” Teen died after ChatGPT pushed deadly mix of drugs, lawsuit says

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.

arstechnica.com

Hmm. Wonder which law firm represents OpenAI in these sorts of cases?

 

[Yoused]

The community of South Lake Tahoe has been getting three-quarters of their juice from NV Energy. But now, with an infestation of large data centers on the Nevada side, NV Energy has informed the California community that we're cutting you off.

 

[Katbel]

Now from TechCrunch

“On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future financial planning.

OpenAI has partnered with the financial connection service Plaid to manage the account connections. Users can connect to over 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Robinhood, American Express, and Capital One. Once users connect these accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.”

What we Really need or exactly what they really need

 

[Huntn]

There's a revolution coming. Governments seems incapable of expeditious action. Any government that attempts to thwart AI replacing jobs will only see those companies moving offshore to more hospitable bureaucracies. Capitalism has been inherently flawed....allowing a handful to attain untold wealth.

We've started to see the jobs being eliminated by AI. (IBM laid off about 8000 last year).

"So far this year, 49,135 layoffs have been attributed to AI", according to this article.

Capitalism (as it exists today) falls on its face when we no longer have enough people working to fund our governments and our economies. The US is already insolvent - owing far more than they can ever realistically repay....getting to the point that they won't be able to pay the interest on the debt.

The only way to keep this society spinning is to embrace Universal Basic Income and evolve our capitalism into something else. Reclaim the trillions held by a handful of people. Free education for everyone. Eradicate poverty and disease. Let's see how many Hawkings there are out there, when given the opportunity to learn.

We need a hybrid of capitalism that rewards people for their contributions to society. Maybe THAT should be the problem that we get AI to solve. In such a society, social workers and teachers would have a more lavish lifestyle than plastic surgeons that only perform liposuction and boob jobs.

Because we have seen all too well how deplorable the teeming masses can be....I suspect we're far more likely to end up in a "Mad Max" world than a Utopia where everyone gets to follow their dreams. Well, provided we don't nuke ourselves and cover the world in radioactive glass first (keep Donnie away from the football!!!)

Happy Monday!

It’s a mindset of business, the “engines of $$$”, ultimately they know what’s best for us. This is a fallacy. We The Sheep, must stop being the sheep and take charge. The problem, we are not organized, nor on the same page, just a bunch of individuals maneuvering mostly for individual advantage. We think in small terms, not bigs one, we’re just too selfish to get 400m of us (US) on the same page.