What scares me is a death of progress situation. Maybe it cant be an expert, but it can be good enough, and now the supply pipeline of people who could be experts basically gets shut off, because to become an expert you needed to do the work and gain the experiences that are now completely owned by AI.
nonrandomstring|3 years ago
The problem of a vengeful god who demands the slaughter of infidels lies not in his existence or nonexistence, but peoples' belief in such a god.
Similarly, it does not matter whether AI works or it doesn't. It's irrelevant how good it actually is. What matters is whether people "believe" in it.
AI is not a technology, it's an ideology.
Given time it will fulfil it's own prophecy as "we who believe" steer the world toward that.
That's what's changing now. It's in the air.
The ruling classes (those who own capital and industry) are looking at this. The workers are looking too. Both of them see a new world approaching, and actually everyone is worried. What is under attack is not the jobs of the current generation, but the value of human skill itself, for all generations to come. And, yes, it's the tail of a trajectory we have been on for a long time.
It isn't the only way computers can be. There is IA instead of AI. But intelligence amplification goes against the principles of capital at this stage. Our trajectory has been to make people dumber in service of profit.
int_19h|3 years ago
CadmiumYellow|3 years ago
Wow, yes. This is exactly what I've been thinking but you summed it up more eloquently.
melagonster|3 years ago
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tintor|3 years ago