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@Ilyak1986the thing is that cars made transport better and AI makes art worse. By „worse” I mean boring, repetitive, stripped of this personal touch which makes people relate with art. AI art is empty and soulless. It might be good replacement for stock pictures used for mass production of everyday stuff but not for smth more deep and meaningful like illustration, game art, tattoos etc

Those places also have low population density, so fewer people notice what's happening and push back on it.

rich people use stocks to store their wealth, but with people losing jobs with AI, businesses will start losing value too, thus, their stock values as well. These global elites are too short sighted that they'll end up shooting themselves on the foot with their schemes

Exactly. It's the same with Ai text too. They scrape images, text off the internet with no consent of the owner whatsoever.

@ApexJanitor there's a difference between not fully understanding something and having no idea what's going on. I don't think this model is close enough to sentient to be able to "lie" in the moral sense or "want" anything (though it certainly does a good job passing the Turing test, so I can understand the confusion). It's utility function is essentially a fill in the blank algorithm, so of cour…

​@deluxedecoylmao it's not look at when the robot fires the gun. The way it the gun fires and the casings coming out, shows you how fake it is

Comcast caused me to lose my job with a Fortune 100 company. I called them at least once a week to fix my internet because I continuously had connectivity issues with my work from home position that caused me to drop from the program I was using with this company. This company ultimately decided to let me go because my connection was unreliable after about 4 months with them. You would think I'd…

How is it an AI if its objective is only the optimization of a human defined function? Isn't that just a regular computer program? The concerns of Hawking, Musk, etc. are more with a Genetic Intelligence that has been written to evolve by rewriting itself (which DARPA is already seeking), thus gaining the ability to self-define the function it seeks to maximize. That's when you get into unfatho…

>so poorly served by their state government. How do these politicians keep getting elected if they're not giving their constituency what they want?

oh good question! 1) That technology is one of the factors making the world more authoritarian and less democratic. 2) That technology is helping to split us into partisan filter bubbles, and contributing to all the data showing the country is more divided on party lines that at any time in history. (The number of Dems who say they would be sad if their child married a Repub, and vice versa, i…

With AI and robots the billionaires don't really need the population. That is the scary part.

Err, no. Vaccine is a way of applying herd immunity without killing people. The study is bad, the article is worse and the title is garbage. What most of the vaccines do is force your own body to create a response for the virus without the virus being active in your immune system. So, if your immune system stops producing the response after a few months, then most vaccines and even the virus itse…

Too much focus on Trump, he's just a puppet, Republicans will replace him with someone else. America is still divided and has always been, most of the Trump voters would've voted for any Republican anyway. They'll forget about Trump if he's remembered as a big sore loser.

Hey kid, just drink less Starbucks and eat less Avocado toast and you can be wealthy like the older generation. /sarcasm

I did an ethics essay which basically went into the ethics of climate change. What people don't even tend to consider when saying things like developed and wealthy nations shouldn't have to bear the brunt of the responsibility is that pretty much all developed nations got that way through colonising poorer nations and stealing their resources which is what made them wealthy. America was founded b…

They would have automated you at the first moment they could if they had known how, and they would have done it in a second (as they are doing), and I guaran-fucking-tee you they not only wouldn't have felt an ounce of remorse -- they would have celebrated it as a great thing. You don't owe any corporations any remorse or guilt. They don't care about you and they don't care about us. Fuck 'em.

I did a similar thing as OP, except I used r/slavelabour I have no programming skills or computer abilities. I paid a guy $700 and he wrote a program that automated 90% of my job.

I work for an automation company. I recently got an email saying that, thanks to our hard work, one of our clients was able to lay off 40 people, nearly half their staff. I was meant to be proud of this. I'm all for passing drudge work onto machines so humans can spend their time on interesting, meaningful, fulfilling things. To do that takes automation *and* social change. Without the latter, …

Maybe that Black Mirror episode with the treadmills was actually all for that purpose. Sure, they would regurgitate and resell the content back to the people, but the main viewers were really the robots. Or better yet, maybe it was a robot captcha set up for their otherwise fully simulated society. "Are you still a robot superior to humans? Which of these videos displays a human doing human thin…

Since they have the facial recognition data now they can identify all the people they should pay!