The recent advances of #AI in the manner of #chatGPT etc, have brought to the fore, if anything, the future of work, humanity. I have registered some of my thoughts with friends, and I figured writing them down would be a good exercise. Over at the blog
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We are Little Giants
CS Lewis gives us a hand: “…There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on man’s side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.”
#chatGPT receipt: [research.checkpoint.com/2023/opwnai-cybercriminals-starting-to-use-chatgpt/]
Long Live the Capitalist?
Cries over cheap #labor are not foreign to us, and in certain cases, rightfully so. But what are we to do as power continues to shift from labor to capital via robotics, AI.
Class struggle will intensify
Hollywood fooled us
The picture painted on many minds is that blue-collar jobs will be obliterated first by AI or the stereotype of evil robots by #Hollywood.
Now we have a candidate technology that has the potential to cause mass job loss among highly educated workers. Irony.
The progress that scares.
Perhaps #AI is not the new electricity. We see unprecedented speed & scale of adoption dissimilar to electricity.
The speed is scary. Now we can generate music from text. [google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples/]
Loss of value.
How many people own an iPhone and can't stop staring at it every morning, even when those machines are an almost literal miracle?
Anything that a generative AI can produce in secs is going to lose its perceptive value very soon and fast
Dostoevskian Take
Perhaps we are moving in circles. After all, psychologists have told us about hedonic adaptations.
Even if we are moving in circles, at least we take solace in that productivity is a powerful antidote to violence (but not when such productivity exclude humans)
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