Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.
It sucks because it should be a good thing that it replaces labor. We could have more time to be humans.
But instead, less labor = more money for the rich and more misery for the rest
Its okay, if enough of us are left twiddling our thumbs we’ll find a place to jam them up. Oh what a good boy am I.
Imagine how many thumbs could be jammed into us if we had time to.
Tax the rich, (not taxing AI that would be stupid) and redistribute the money via UBI.
Also reduce work week to 4 days and have mandatory overtime for working more than 32 hours a week. Work week to be reduced as ai replaces more jobs.
Nobel please.
I agree 100% with you. I will write a letter of recommendation for you.
Cheers. I hope you’re somebody because I’m not, I need the connections for this.
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That would only happen if people thought the disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.
Right??
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IMO, the warning should be with companies, not individuals.
So, if a company needs fewer employees, there will be more companies, and more competition in the market. You lay off thousands of very smart people, and they’ll go to your competitors, or create new ones using the skills you gave them.
The problem right now is that companies are expecting AI to replace people right now. If you do, you’re in for a world of hurt as hallucinations and training issues will almost certainly give you some headaches - whether it’s a HR agent committing an offence that makes the company legally or financially liable, recruitment AI that rejects candidates disproportionately, or software tools that decide to invent features or introduce nested, poor-performing bullshit. This doesn’t even go into the liability issues of pumping your customer and employee data into third-party tools. AI in it’s current state is a useful tool, nothing more.
The competitors are also using AI. They don’t want to deal with “employees” any more than the big guys do. They’ll actually get more done in less time with AI. So at best, you stand out among the thousands that get laid off and some other employer lets you be the lucky one to gently steer the AI when it goes off course.
This is the most realistic outcome imo. Even before AI there’s already a pattern where employees jump through companies before they gather enough experience to make their own.
If you do, you’re in for a world of hurt as hallucinations and training issues will almost certainly give you some headaches
I think the next wave of work will be a huge bunch of mechanical turks to fight against hallucinations. These jobs will barely pay above minimum wage and you will be instructed to either tag data or generate new “pure human sourced” data.
I think it’s rather that current forms of capitalism are ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ with AI being the most effective tool to accomplish that goal.
It’s pretty funny seeing the discrepancy between this thread beeing overall positive of ai replacing jobs, and the other one where google is letting people off and commenters are pissed about it.
I think we all saw this coming. But the worst part is this: they want to replace white collar jobs like Developers, Managers, Architects, Engineers etc - all the educated people.
Whereas it should be used to replace manual labour jobs in conjunction with robotics to spare humans doing heavy and dangerous labour, freeing them to go study and get white collar jobs. Thereby improving society and raising people on the bottom, to the middle and beyond.
Instead they are cutting down the top and the middle, making these people jobless and poor thereby increasing the poverty!
Just so that a few billionaires can get even richer! It’s disgusting!
No shit?
That’s why these companies need to be taxed heavier (and tax loopholes closed) in order to cover basic necessities and reeducation of the workforce using UBI.
Yeah no shit. Any media hack who tells you otherwise is misinformed, on some hidden payroll, or willfully ignorant
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
Lol, what? Are you familiar with the Luddites?
And so were the Conveyor-Belt and the Steam-Engine.
Progress in production makes our lives better and raise our standard of living. It also frees up labour for other new Sectors.
WE NEED TO REPLACE THE PEOPLE WHO BUY OUR @&$! WITH ROBOTS -a cigar chomping executive somewhere
Well, I, one of those people who would be replaced by said robots, am all for it. Fuck work. Buuut, without some other kind of economic system in place, we will be cut off from the food and water and housing trades pretty goddamn quick. Capitalism and leisure don’t go hand in hand. Capitalism and human and/or animal and/or plant life don’t go hand in hand. In short, capitalism is incompatible with life. Period. It’s a system of death that runs on the idea that if you exploit someone to the point of nearly starving, you’ll win more. If you can exploit people all down the chain to the point that they make next to nothing, you’ll win capitalism.
The system is so short sighted that they are trying to cut costs no matter what, while still actively fighting anything that makes life remotely livable for, yknow, the people. That line go up, all is right with world.
I wonder how many people will die before they start seeing a dent in their bottom line and start beating their head against the “we need to tax the people (not our businesses) so you can pay the people (that have no work and no money) so they can make my business profit!” wall before they actually give in to increasing their own taxes…so with that excess profit, people can hand it back to them in purchases?
I dunno, but there’s no way I see capitalism and no work ever coexisting. It just doesn’t make sense. Not to mention “they” would never allow it because they hoard more and more and we all starve.
Capitalism is the economic equivalent of a previous age of technology. It’s time is over and people are struggling to adjust to a new era where leisure is a result of progress.
Hard agree.
Good?
Why don’t we want machines doing the work we don’t want to do?
Oh right, white collar workers want to hold everyone else back so they don’t have to adapt.
Where have I seen this before…
