DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a "Labor Replacing Tool"
Mustafa Suleyman recently said the quiet part out loud when he admitted that AI is designed to steal jobs from humans.
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Oh sweet baby Jesus no, burn AI to the ground, humanity can't be trusted with it
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"I don't care if future generations curse my name, so long as they know it."
Eh, going by past experience, when new technology puts people out of work, they don't actually eat the rich.
In the long term, they have not eaten the rich because new jobs have been created to replace those lost. So the question becomes... will this happen with AI and if so, what are those new jobs?
One might argue that the structure of our liberal, capitalist societies continues because the middle classes get enough out of it to not want to rock the boat. They row a bit towards the poor at times, and back towards the rich at others. However, if the economy shifted to significantly disadvantage the middle classes, then the middle classes would start decisively siding with the poor, and that would be impossible for a democratic government to ignore. (Hence why a significant tranche of tech bros and other affluent are distinctly lukewarm towards democracy.)
Of course, whether we will still have democracy in a few decades is an open question. The rise of the far right across the West suggests possibly not: we'll eventually turn into Hungaries, and then Russias.
I have been hearing bits and snippets (and memes) of the Willy's Chocolate Experience (an unofficial Willy Wonka event), and that it was somehow related to AI. I thought it was just the advertisement that was AI generated; but I was wrong.
The actors were given an AI-generated script to perform their roles in WillyWonka McDuff's chocolate factory (a script that details how the audience is supposed to react). But the real scam was that everything that wasn't AI-generated had the minimum bare effort put into it (and none of the AI-generated stuff was polished afterwards or had its errors fixed), and they charged 35 pounds per person for it.
The organizer also has an history of self-publishing AI-generated books. The laziness in display is just... sad.
The actors were given an AI-generated script to perform their roles in Willy
The organizer also has an history of self-publishing AI-generated books. The laziness in display is just... sad.
‘The worst AI-generated artwork we’ve seen’: Queensland Symphony Orchestra’s Facebook ad fail
A ‘poorly considered’ use of AI has resulted in a perplexing number of fingers – and a large amount of mockery
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(As an aside some disability groups are worried that people are going to dismiss as AI any photo with limbs that "look wrong", which can include real photos of people with certain medical conditions)
Giorgia Meloni: Italian PM seeks damages over deepfake porn videos
Giorgia Meloni is suing two men after digitally altered videos featuring her face appeared online in 2020.
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Tech companies: "Not our problem!"
However, if it's our problem, they'll fight to the bitter end to stop us doing anything about it. They'll all make all manner of sympathetic and serious-sounding comments if questioned, and vigorously assault anything that impedes them. Or create their own alleged solutions to the problems they made and bill us for them.
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Leading Companies Launch Consortium to Address AI's Impact on the Technology Workforce
Cisco & a group of leading companies - Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft & SAP - announced the launch of the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium focused on upskilling & reskilling roles most likely to be impacted by AI.
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But don't worry. They promise to retrain people. By the millions.
Sure. Someone's got to clean out their private swimming pools and serve their meals in the restaurant.
Just use AI to replace C-suits. Significant reduction in cost, and I'm not even sure the AI would actually be worse at it.
AOC reveals the horror of seeing a deepfake porn image of herself
'There's a shock to seeing images of yourself that someone could think are real,' Ocasio-Cortez told Rolling Stone. 'There are certain images that don't leave a person, they can't leave a person.'