• Tony Bark@pawb.social
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    They’re throwing billions upon billions into a technology with extremely limited use cases and a novelty, at best. My god, even drones fared better in the long run.

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      I mean it’s pretty clear they’re desperate to cut human workers out of the picture so they don’t have to pay employees that need things like emotional support, food, and sleep.

      They want a workslave that never demands better conditions, that’s it. That’s the play. Period.

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        If this is their way of making AI, with brute forcing the technology without innovation, AI will probably cost more for these companies to maintain infrastructure than just hiring people. These AI companies are already not making a lot of money for how much they cost to maintain. And unless they charge companies millions of dollars just to be able to use their services they will never make a profit. And since companies are trying to use AI to replace the millions they spend on employees it seems kinda pointless if they aren’t willing to prioritize efficiency.

        It’s basically the same argument they have with people. They don’t wanna treat people like actual humans because it costs too much, yet letting them love happy lives makes them more efficient workers. Whereas now they don’t want to spend money to make AI more efficient, yet increasing efficiency would make them less expensive to run. It’s the never ending cycle of cutting corners only to eventually make less money than you would have if you did things the right way.

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          Absolutely. It’s maddening that I’ve had to go from “maybe we should make society better somewhat” in my twenties to “if we’re gonna do capitalism, can we do it how it actually works instead of doing it stupid?” in my forties.

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        And the tragedy of the whole situation is that they can‘t win because if every worker is replaced by an algorithm or a robot then who‘s going to buy your products? Nobody has money because nobody has a job. And so the economy will shift to producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another. Then the entire system will collapse like the Roman Empire and we start from scratch.

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          producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another.

          As seen in the retro-documentary Z!

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      I don’t think any designer does work without heavily relying on ai. I bet that’s not the only profession.