The trajectory is simple: everyone is hooked on paid AI subscription and loses the skill of thinking and learning. The models are proprietary and cloud-only. Everything you input is also monetized. The end.
If AI takes over everything even remotely in the radius of "knowledge work" and leaves 25% of workers jobless, where is all the demand for this new "productivity" going to come from. Robots buying stuff from each other? Our benevolent billionaire overlords stepping up their consumption to compensate?
We don't know and that's why the next few years are not looking bright. This is going to massively accelerate existing income inequality until it breaks our economy. Some have suggested universal basic income as the relief, but good luck getting the United States Congress to deliver that for its people. We're talking something much bigger than The New Deal and that only happened because the fucking Great Depression happened first.
FeteCommuniste|19 days ago
neilpointer|19 days ago