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China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 9 months ago by sparky@lemmy.federate.cc to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

companies are getting ahead of themselves about the opportunity to fire human employees

But then if they produce garbage with AI people will buy the non-garbage product

Either it produces something of value or it doesn't, if it's producing garbage, lowering output, etc then it's not a threat to our jobs because most people don't like garbage, if it's producing genuine value then it will be.

[+] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But cars have always had value, we're talking under an article that calls AI "magic beans"

How could magic beans which produce garbage enslave humanity under capitalism? Would you argue that cars which replaced horses as the primary mode of transport in a few years be called this?

You can argue that AI does some things badly, it's still very very early on and the progress people are making is insane, like nothing I've seen before, but you can't argue it is worthless and a giant threat to us at the same time, this is contradictory

[+] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

we’re not in the slower than walking era, we’re in the ford model t era, i’m reading someone call the ford model t magic beans (eg. a scam) while millions of people are driving one every day and simultaneously worried it’s going to ruin transportation all over the north america

“It took years of hard work for us to steal beans from farmers, apply our unique brand of magic, and seek investment from our nation’s finest rubes and oafs,” a Beanco spokesman said. “Now DeepBean wants to steal our magic beans, rebrand the magic, and get money from their own buffoons and clods? It’s just not right.”

again, these are contradictory statements, it cannot be both a scam that has no value (eg. magic beans) and going to take all our jobs