AI Job Losses: let's count the losses up, total losses to AI so far 94,000 and counting

[Vayra86]

"They" are the same people who said that WeWork is an exponentially growing real life network that will revolutionize the office space.

Silicon Valley is full of bullshitting grifters. They also said a single drop of blood is good for tests (Theranos) and that a Juice squeezer (Juicero) would be in every kitchen.

Even $100+ Billion investments like Metaverse/Virtual Reality / Google Glass / Kinect just..... collapse and are forgotten by time. I love me my BeatSaber but how is the last Silicon Valley fad going? And why do you trust the hype in this cycle?

This. There is only big tech jumping from one avenue to the next to 'stay ahead of the curve' ; the real curve being 'reality' as we sink ourselves further and further in debt - not just money - but resources, good living, healthy conditions amd everything else we truly need to survive. All this tech brought us what exactly? A wild clusterfuck of fake needs that only exist to keep systems afloat that are way past expiry date.

Ask yourselves: did social media make us more social and better at communication? Did better weapons make us more secure? Did AI make us smarter?

Nope. It made us dependant on it, because 'the other' can use it too. Its a rat race to oblivion. It has worked for us for a while, but all things have their limits. We have stretched them far beyond common sense.

Progress and research are good. But commercializing everything under the sun needs boundaries, desperately.

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Why are you addressing me? Have you read post #3, 4 , 5, and 6? They discuss elites oppressing people and a potential uprising. What have I said that doesn't mirror the same? Are you trying to get this thread locked by being offended of the discussion taking place? What fragile state are you in that you aren't willing to discuss the real dangers and consequences of an AI revolution?

What about post #50? Do you have anything to contribute to this discussion?

You want to fight, go ahead. The discussion has largely avoided the politics, and you are dragging it back. My intention is to not have an interesting discussion removed...take it however you want to for the sake of paranoia...


My point here is that you can avoid politics and still have a discussion. I would suggest that paranoia or AI replacing people is pretty stupid whilst AI power loads are skyrocketing. Yes, an AI can bastardize you a picture of "a fat orange cat dressed in a cheap suit with a bad comb-over..." yet Garfield still exists. Yes, jobs will be lost which are currently relevant. That's exactly like the few people it used to take to turn the lugs on a wheel, whereas today one person uses a tool on an assembly line going 20x faster than doing things by hand. Ironically, you still need a grease monkey to pop those wheels are rotate them to keep them in good working order.
Sometimes instead of tilting the system on its side and building something new we just need to find all of the holes that modern things have to discover new ways to do things. If you disagree, then I'd ask when the last time you went to the local travel office was...because the internet now allows you to book flights, hotel rooms, and rental cars, faster than the local travel office could get you into the office.

Progress is not easy. It is not fun. It is not about what people want. It is about what the tools we have allow, and how we can bastardize them to do what we need.

 

[Space Lynx]

I think you need to have guided progress if your society is to flourish, society will always survive, but we should want it to flourish imo.

As I say here:

 

[ty_ger]

You want to fight, go ahead.

Nobody wants to fight. Nobody wants this topic locked. If you want to argue, PM me.