Here we go! All aboard the mass unemployment train! Choo Choo!
I wonder if we can actually adopt technology so fast as to completely ruin our economy before we can notice that’s what’s happening.
Businesses are going to adopt AI and robotics to increase productivity and drive down costs. But it quickly becomes a tragedy of the commons if every business only considers their own selfish interests. Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.
Eventually there will not be enough human workers creating training data for LLMS to hallucinate with, and they will just be training each other with more and more incorrect bullshit.
I do find GitHub CoPilot helpful to save typing, but last night it took me longer to track down the mistakes it made than if I had just did a combination of copy/paste + regex.
Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.
That’s when they’ll all combine and become Buy n Large and create a corporate “basic income” just so that people can keep buying crap.
Don’t worry people won’t stay unemployed for long. WW3 breaks out and suddenly everyone unemployed is drafted.
I mean yeah. You have all those people you don’t need or care about and they are rightfully angry. But you don’t want them in your country… They might rebel and do something about their situation. So best to weaponize it and send out that anger to be someone else’s problem.
On the one hand, I strongly doubt their AI will do a good job at this and my first thought was that their sales will go to shit. I mean we all know how shitty all communication with Google is for mostly everyone because of what they already automated (developer relations for Android app developers spring to mind).
On the other hand, I’m not convinced the sales people were doing a good job either so maybe we won’t notice a difference.
I think they don’t care if AI does a good job. I think that they will provide the AI capabilities to their lowest clients and keep the human sales team for the clients who are willing to spend more money. When you can no longer increase your sales base you start focusing on the ones you can milk for more.
And boom nailed it in one. It’s just gonna be more and more of the “lessers” having no one to interact with but bots and walls that stop us from being able to do nearly anything useful.
When do we realize the wealthy have their own economy they don’t really want the poor in other than to vacuum up some spare change occasionally? Let’s start are own economy! With BlackJack and Hookers… Ok maybe forget the blackjack but keep the hookers.
Mass layoffs shoud incur major tax penalties for these large corperations
The line on the graph must go up, even if it’s for one second! Glory to the CEO! Praise the shareholders! My life for the corporation! Now give me that minute-by-minute profit projection!
I remember when googles catch phrase was “don’t be evil.”
I miss non evil google.
Once upon a time, when they were the scrappy upstart disrupting shitty search engines like Yahoo and Altavista, there was a moment when they were awesome.
The tipping point was going public, in my opinion.
Given that AI is trained on content from the web, what happens when all the content is written by AI?
The oroboros problem?
It turns out the LLMs will gradually degrade in performance, so hopefully the world doesn’t meaningfully change after training to 2023.
https://decrypt.co/144271/ai-learning-from-ai-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ai-models
I asked Bing your question, here’s the answer:
"That’s a very intriguing question. There is no definitive answer, but I can share some possible scenarios and implications.
One scenario is that AI content generation will become so advanced and ubiquitous that it will replace human writers entirely. In this case, the web will be filled with AI-generated content that is indistinguishable from human-written content. This could have some benefits, such as increased efficiency, scalability, and diversity of content. However, it could also have some drawbacks, such as loss of authenticity, creativity, and accountability. Moreover, it could raise ethical and legal issues, such as plagiarism, misinformation, and manipulation.
Another scenario is that AI content generation will coexist and collaborate with human writers, rather than replace them. In this case, the web will be a hybrid of AI-generated and human-written content, with varying degrees of quality and reliability. This could have some benefits, such as enhanced productivity, creativity, and accuracy of content. However, it could also have some drawbacks, such as confusion, bias, and conflict. Furthermore, it could require new skills and standards, such as critical thinking, verification, and attribution.
A third scenario is that AI content generation will be regulated and restricted, rather than allowed and encouraged. In this case, the web will be mostly human-written content, with limited and controlled use of AI-generated content. This could have some benefits, such as preservation of human values, culture, and identity. However, it could also have some drawbacks, such as stagnation, inequality, and censorship. Additionally, it could pose some challenges and risks, such as enforcement, compliance, and security.
As you can see, AI content generation is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that could have various outcomes and impacts on the web and society. It is not clear what will happen, but it is important to be aware and prepared for the possibilities."
