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Morgan·Feb 15, 2024

I'm not in the business of being against AI, more so against companies who use it as an excuse to cut staff and leave users with an inferior product. Less people being paid means less money you get as a company. Keep that in mind.

The book released in 2016, but the foundations haven't changed. Quotes from the book are italicized, and my comments follow.

Mark Zuckerberg recently said that AI will be better than humans at most basic tasks in 5 to 10 years

Remember that this book came out in 2016. We have reached the point where people are being laid off in favor of AI that is still not quite up to replacing all of us snuff. Hence how fear of AI is really fear of how our fellow man will use it to screw us over feed it biased data, etc.

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Iynna·Feb 15

Thank you for sharing!! I am asking because I have admittedly not actively kept up with these news: have there been cases or evidence where post using AI to replace human labour, products have been inferior as a result? And a more open question in a capitalist society like the one we're in in the USA, and where "shareholder value" has to be increased, should companies be blamed for wanting to increase their profit margin and that means decreasing costs? Or should someone/something else be blamed for it?

Morgan·Feb 15

For your first question; I follow an author who writes quite a lot of stuff; Some of his minor stuff has to be self published. He used some tool Google has to make an audiobook of his self-published work.It missed the nuances of a human performer by his own admission (and mine).Another creator used AI for a comic project (I think a trailer?) and often had to use humans to fix and improve.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRSg6gjOOWA&t=2078sI can't say for certain whether companies proper have met with an inferior product. We can say that AI is in use for things like automated responses which are often not helpful and have me skip to a CS rep anyway.For your second point, the thing that should be blamed is capitalism's incessant desire to have and grow at all costs.

Iynna·Feb 19

Thank you Morgan for sharing your thoughts and the resources! It's interesting to see the link in light of OpenAI's new product (Sora)!I can't say for certain whether companies proper have met with an inferior product. We can say that AI is in use for things like automated responses which are often not helpful and have me skip to a CS rep anyway. --> got it, i think this is an interesting idea to dig in further. Re second point: yeah I hear you, i just find it hard to revamp capitalism seeing where we are, it's so deeply engrained in the way the US operates as it's really how the country was started. But yeah ideologically speaking, i am with you!

Brionna·Feb 19

Thanks for posting this. I find AI to be so interesting, because I've seen it be useful in some ways (like as a virtual assistant or for idea generation for content creation), but for the most part it seems to be pretty lacking. The other thing I'll say is that AI seems really out of touch with what people want right now. People want to have in real life experiences. They want to meet up. They want to see each other. They want to meet each other after years of isolation. (there's a whole separate convo on public health and why capitalism continues to think it's fine to sacrifice people's health to keep the consumerism engine running)But the trend I see with AI and VR is that tech is creating things that further isolate people at a time when people would literally rather get sick than stay isolated. With that said, I think your observation about AI being heavily reliant on adoption by large corporations is kind of the only real way it embeds itself deeply into our society because from what I see, it's not that interesting on a day to day basis to a lot of human beings yearning for actual connection.

Morgan·Feb 19

Good point; It isn't interesting but it is expensive.