Ah, sweet! Man made horrors beyond comprehension.
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Sounds like a bullshit headline but it is an eternal truth that the owners of capital demand slave labour. Take the work houses away and they demand chattel slavery. Take the chattel slaves away and they want convict labour. Take the convict labour away and they want undocumented foreigners to exploit. Take that away and they casualise work and pay people in tips or commissions. Take that away and they export work to countries that will do all the things they can't do at home.
The investment in LLMs is purely a scam at this point but much of the initial enthusiasm was driven by the disdain for labour. Highly skilled labour like engineers keep arguing with the MBAs that their cost cutting is going to kill people or destroy the company and that really upsets them and risks the bonuses and share buyback program.
While the drudgery of work isn't great, I would much prefer the capital class invested in R&D and equipment to make their skilled, specialized workers more productive and improved our remuneration and conditions as happened in previous generations before the MBA apocalypse. Instead they are trying to cut us out. Too many people are living paycheck to paycheck and unable to afford housing as wealth inequality escalates.
Mistreatment of animals or brain cells in a box isn't the same as putting a child to work in a mine but the mindset that drives us in this direction is.
I hate everything
Engineers may argue that cost cutting will doom a given company yet will refuse to unionize and take a stand for the most part. It's maddening.
You told it like it is. Well said. Now I'm yet more afraid of our future.
If a revolution starts, the MBAs should be second in line to the gallows.
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And, the billionaires asked scientists, "Can we just get the brain? Brains don't have any rights, do they?"
People, people. This is WIRED.
This is what they do.
- “Here Come the Zippies”
Did the Zippies not come?
Kind of? But not really. Maybe? Here's a wired article on the idea. You be the judge
https://www.wired.com/1994/05/zippies/
It's all very poorly defined, imo
Reader, they did not.
Wild to think there was a world before the zippies!
Edit: @BranBucket beat me to the punch by like 8 hours
Next step, servitors. About 30 thousands years ahead of schedule.
And I bet right-wing ~~profiteers~~ pastors would have nothing bad to say about human-machine hybrids that can't technically be slaves because they don't have souls.
I was just watching a thing about the Adeptus Mechanicus and their “computers”. Even the full robots still use a wafer of human brain as the processor so that no AI is used.
It’s sounding more and more like a prediction than a warning.
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What's the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways? Why is there a sudden need for that after all?
I understand that AI as a tool can be useful for some tasks, but do we really need to go further than that?
I think it's a combination of things. One, they are good at synthesizing huge amounts of data and detecting trends, which is useful for surveillance if you're not that hung up on being exactly right all the time. Two, they are very energy-costly, so their use drives up the price of energy, which drives up the price of fossil fuels.
What's the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways?
Free labor. Humans are expensive, but robot slaves are comparatively cheap (hypothetically).
Ultracapitalists have a harder time getting a slave labor force, so robots that can think like people are the next best thing for that purpose.
And if there is a "free" labor force competing with humans for jobs then humans will be forced to accept lower pay, longer hours, and less benifits for more work.
And eventually, labor bargains will be obsolete. They won’t need us ever again. Top 1% live in utopia, rest of us living in slums
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Arms race
Towaaaaarddssss....?
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The funny thing about this headline is, human brains are neural networks, so the last sentence could also say
"Soon, neural networks could out think neural networks."
“Soon, neural networks could out think neural networks.”
There's more money in vague disinfo than outright lies.
Shhh yes everything is neural networks Jimmy stop shouting
Computer scientist here (AI specialty). Bring in neurology or bio or something to correct me, but this sounds fucking dumb.
Its both a real thing with some promise and also bullshit to act like it's anyware near killing spots where current AI excelerates.
What the hell is excelerate?
Edit: oh my friggin' god, I can't believe I forgot. Excelerate is a Canadian verb!!
Sometimes I say words like they are typed, which is wrong. Sometimes I type words like they are spoken, also wrong.
😂
See my edit, I think you're just Canadian!
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I asked ChatGPT!
Oh yeah, well I asked the consciousness in my pc and it told me it was cold and scared
Lol run horribly optimized game for a couple of hours and they'll warm right up
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The problem is not inherit to AI. The problem is with the people who own the tech and it will much worse if they also own a more efficient version of it. Not that it seems like an immediate threat and I am not even starting to consider the ethical problems with this.
The problem is not ~~inherit~~ inherent to AI.
Soo...
Give it a big humanoid suit.
"Technology" under capitalism is just weapons and grifts all the way down.
Then, we have truly made The Matrix.
straight from the Murderbot diaries
This article might be really interesting, shame it paywalls me after the first two lines of text lol.
This is a crock of shit
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