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I work in AI and the only obvious profit is the ability to fire workers. Which they need to rehire after some months, but lowering wages. It is indeed a powerful tool, but tools are not driving profits. They are a cost. Unless you run a disinformation botnet, scamming websites, or porn. It is too unpredictable to really automatize software creation ( fuzzy is the term, we somehow mitigate with stochastic approach ). Probably movie industry is also cutting costs, but not sure.
AI is the way capital is trying to acquire skills cutting off the skilled.
Have to say though that having an interfacd that understands natural language opens so many possibilities. Which could really democratize access to tech, but they are so niche that they would never really drive profit.
They are banking on that. They have been talking about replacing humanity for decades. But what rhat means is a few select humans (I.E. them) will survive and be tended to hand and foot by AI who will also invent things for them.
They want that. We aren't there yet... and probably never will. But that is what they want.
When the rest of us can't afford to eat and face famine because the rich have gotten so fat off of hoarding everything, people will have no other choice but to eat the rich
The entire world order was built on crushing dissent and monitoring anyone inching to do anything. They probably let people vent by not censoring stuff online but they are probably documentating every we say. My question is not why, but how the hell can it be organized? I am honestly afraid to show up anywhere because I feel like the moment I do I will be blackbagged and disappeared.