Ain't nothing new, but particularly bleak how quickly they're able to pivot to whatever the most easily-exploitable populace is.
Someone still has to teach the AI in the first place and for that you need millions of man hours manually labelling datasets. It's the one part of the equation you can't really fully automate away, the only other route is getting people to do it themselves (e.g. collecting labels from people's bios when scraping their social media accounts for data).
It's unfortunate that we can't send them to higher institutions of learning like our very own meatchildren.
I think it would be more accurate that the point of AI is to eliminate manual laborers. The owning class dreams of mechanical slaves that will work tirelessly and never revolt. They'll liquidate the rest of us bit by bit.
Sorry, forgot Poe's law. :sicko-luna:
But yeah, the word "robot" comes from the czech word for serfs or forced labor as it first appeared in Rossum's Universal Robots. Originally they were conceived as biopunk/frankenstein's monster sort of entities like in Blade Runner. The correlation with machines/automata came later. Asimov played with the robots as forced labor concept quite heavily and often in a tongue-in-cheek sort of manner reminiscient of ancient stories about tricky djinn or golems.
wow I'd never even considered the exploitation involved in labeling training data.
