Really feels like the calm before the storm rn imo. Not sure if I’m just paranoid or anyone else is in agreement

  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Yep! It's also being used to threaten writers during the ongoing strike and C-suites the world over are gushing about "replacing" their knowledge workers with a chatbot that just makes shit up at random and absolutely can't do the job.

    AI as it exists has promise for increasing productivity per worker, but can't actually replace a human. It's just... not actually smart. It mimicks knowledge by reproducing patterns and using connections, but it can't actually learn and do the tasks humans need to do (yet).

    Increasing productivity per worker can be used to justify layoffs, incidentally, though business-wise this is usually a stupid thing to do.