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[–] fun_times@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have thought for a long time that the human brain that has developed through natural selection for millions of years probably is as energy and space efficient as it can possibly get.

The ultimate goal for these technofascists is to create a sentience that can do all the things humans can do but without having any rights. They want digital slaves. But this confirms my suspicion that they will have a really hard time achieving their goals while not going bankrupt.

Once an AI is smart enough to genuinely do all the things a human can do, that AI will a) be too energy costly and b) demand to get rights (e.g. getting paid and having time off).

The best the technofascists can realistically do long-term is create the digital equivalent of an "idiot savant". And even then, it will probably still cost too much.

[–] Datz@szmer.info 3 points 6 days ago

I'll play devil's advocate and say the brain has to be portable enough for the animal containing it to move, and also has a chunk of itself dedicated to hormones telling us what to do to survive, instead of just working on information. It also won't ask for payment or time off, because the closest thing to pain for it is giving wrong answers.

On the other hand, since the only motivator is it's digitial equivalent of dopamine, AGI could just hack itself into getting an infinite supply of it. Which would be funny - the first thing it would do being metaphorically jerking off all day.

[–] endless_nameless@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

At least it's also way fucking worse lmfao

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I think I’m just getting old, but i hate that “compute” is now a noun

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 101 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Just wait till executives realize they can't use AI as a scapegoat when they force a bad decision through the company. They'll have no one to take the fall.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI businesses are already getting away with their software killing innocent people. I think everyone will work out for the people at the top.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup. Capitalism only works in a finite world if there's a catastrophic economic hardship for 99% of the population every 5 to 10 years just to ensure the working class doesn't achieve too many gains. Ai causing the economy to crash is bonus feature, not a bug.

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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's why there's often a human in the loop who has to check the result of the AI and can be blamed if things go wrong. The poor sap can't possibly check and correct the volumes of slop produced so they're just there to work as a scapegoat.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Are you sure? So far it seems like they've been able to do just that.

[–] Codpiece@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago

I’m pretty certain that companies and people have been using the old “computer error” excuse since at least the 1980s.

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[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just imagine where we would be 5-10-15 years from now, if all that AI money would have went into social and environmental projects.

[–] freshcow@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That describes my entire life since adolescence... wondering what kind of society we could have had if we werent governed by sociopaths

[–] DiarrheaSommelier@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If all the resources we spent blowing shit up and killing innocent people had been put to good use instead, we would be in a Star Trek-esque post-scarcity society by now. Possibly on our way to being Kardashev type 1 society.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 54 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So... why the fuck are you going all-in on AI at the expense of literally everyone and everything else!?

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They're either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they're willing to pay more for a workforce that can't organize and protest and that they don't have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago

They're nvidia, they don't care if the shovels they're selling won't dig any gold

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 1 week ago

Some CEO's thought they could save a bundle and were eager to replace workers. Other CEO's saw that, had to do a bunch of layoffs and knew saying "replaced with AI" instead of layoffs keeps stock prices high. Then you have a whole bunch of CEO's that thought the other guys must be on to something, think they're missing out and jump into AI both feet first. The laggards are bombarded with news and propaganda by the big players to get them pulled in too. So by now you get everybody messing around with AI in some fashion. That's the moment the tech giants put the squeeze on everybody.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

They are clearly anti-human. The question is what are they really trying to achieve? I hope it is not just Bioshock.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm just going to note how giga-fucked it is that AI is openly being criticized because it hasn't led to more layoffs.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Just want to point out the "more layoffs". We are still in the Uber-subsidized part of the relationship.

This is the honeymoon and the marriage ain't off to a great start

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

It's absolutely baffling how the gig-economy had been normalized.

I am a news junkie. Just this week they were talking to a business expert about youth unemployment (note it's bad everywhere but it's starting to get bad in 1st world now so we are caring finally) and his response was yeah it's bad but basically we have to get used to a future of hustling doing multiple gigs with no health benefits because that's where things are going.

Fucking government is bent over the barrel letting industry define the workers terms of engagement it's disgusting.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm hoping this insane future booked shortage causes the consumer electronics industry to crash due to lack of parts which in turn should cause the AI industry to crash when no one is buying new tech nor fat AI subscriptions.

It already has to be affecting small to medium businesses significantly when even laptop procurement has tripled in price and you're spending a ton of money for enterprise AI access.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think they’re hoping the result is that we can only afford cheap tablet devices that act as dumb terminals for their cloud services which we have to rent forever due to holding our data hostage so they can manufacture consent and prevent us from developing open solutions to their walled garden proprietary products.

A precarious moment at the edge of a cliff.

[–] Comet79@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These companies want to own all the hardware so you are forced to rent a computer. To buy a PC that does nothing by itself and requires some remote hardware to function. Amazon is already preparing a "game streaming" service, for example.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahh, late to market in a flooded field with at least one law of physics preventing it from ever working acceptably. Good job, Jeff!

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good luck with that to them. Internet reliability is extremely crappy in the US, even on supposedly "tech hubs" in California the best you can do is unreliable Comcast or super slow DSL from AT&T.

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Wow!

Really?!

No way!!!

Its almost like anyone who could do grade school math could have pointed that out 2, 3, 4 years ago!

I wonder if anyone did...

Anyway, uh, chain all these fucking morons into each other, SAW style, tell em they all have to work together and mutually suffer to escape the trap.

That's not murder, it's comedy.

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This sounds like the VC money is running out and the subsidies will soon end.

Don’t you worry, the AI companies already gobbled up the entire Internets worth of data, every conversation they could find on their social media networks to train their machine.

And just like Uber, you’ll now have to pay a premium to use their service when it finally works. Don’t worry they’ll still give you the stupid auto complete chat bot and tell you that’s the real AI, The real AI works for the corporate captured government and is figuring out how to get rid of you. Their goal is not enlightenment of the human race, It’s depopulation and control.

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[–] limonfiesta@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At its current pace, AI expenditures may reach $5.2 trillion by 2030

I can't wait.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They think it is a lottery and sinking more money into it will increase the odds of "winning at everything".

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[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At some point they will have to monetize and that's going to be a bad day for everyone.

Imagine having halved your workforce, suddenly you have to pay for compute at what it actually costs.

If they don't find a new thing to sell to their shareholders they will have to monetize.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago

And good luck rebuilding all the institutional knowledge that you threw away by firing half your staff, while your former employees are getting rounded up into homeless work camps...

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Obviously, but think of all the middle management, payroll, HR, etc you can fire/not hire!

I'm not sure who to root for here. Middle Managers can suck eggs.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Their not firing middle managers. Their firing front line coders and lower desk employees and keeping the middle managers while using AI.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

AI isnt AI

LLMs are overhyped

This is all a coordinated effort to keep people in fear and distraction while they prop up the stock market with AI hype to make Trump look better than he is. Its all lies and marketing.

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I built my little empire out of some crazy garbage called the blood of the exploited working class.

[–] sobchak@programming.dev 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It also can't do any job I know of. Weird framing. Though, I guess that's the snake oil they're trying to sell.

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[–] VampirePenguin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Yeah no shit. It was never about results, it was always about hurting people. It's a step in the technofascist takeover. Fuck AI. Fuck techbros. Fuck capitalism. That is all.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

May this be the beginning of the end, or at least the end of the beginning. Quite possibly with a bubble burst so we can move on from the era of slop (am I being too optimistic?)

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure slop will go for good, I'm just hoping for a flood of cheap RAM, SSDs and GPUs at "please take us back" prices to build a new machine from scratch

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[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago

So unshocking.

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