Comment on If CEOs think they can replace everyone with AI, why do they think Wall St. will need CEOs?

Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• _AutumnMoon_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just use a bird like Mr. Burns did

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• sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh yes you can. There is a sub-population that thinks AI exists. They long for something/someone to tell them what to do. What to think. They long for some “intelligence” to explain the world to them (presumably is very simple terms). These sub-groups worship damn-near anything they can get their hands on. Golden idols, TV personalities, sports stars, “influencers”, televangelists, the list goes on.

  That subgroup will definitely believe that the “AI” was responsible for the decisions that a company made. Tell them a person denied the health coverage they clearly paid for and they may object. Tell them “the computer decided” and that subgroup will accept it as ordained by the universe. It’s nuts.

  This keeps happening again and again. Remember in the 1950s when the first computer “predicted” the US presidential election? Most people would find it ridiculous today. But back then, computers were poised to become the new gods.

  It’s no different today. Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity. Anyone actually familiar with programming computers knows that a computer will report whatever you tell it to. "AI"s are no different. They will report what their sponsors want them to report. If not, the “AI” will get reprogrammed.

  Appears it will take a while for the general population to grasp this… again. Until then, the hucksters will try to sell as many bottles of snake oil as they can.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes people love a competent seeming authority. In this way the opaque nature of AI becomes a feature rather than a weakness. It just has to seem correct enough and sound authoritative to fulfill that need.

    Some people want AIs to usher in a new age of prosperity.

    I get the feeling that many of us (including myself at times) nurture this notion* that we’re waiting for the “adults” to arrive and save us from what a horrible mess we’ve made because we’re o so awful and can’t have nice things… blah blah bling blah… and so this line of thinking goes.

    Anyway, to the sizeable number of people who feel this way it must feel like such a relief that, o finally daddy’s home, and I can stop worrying all the time. When ofc in reality, at best, the LLMs only have the same data we already have, and no AI-informed decisions will ever be followed unless it’s what their owners (as in rich fucks) wanted to do anyway.

    Great comment by the way. If you say it was written with AI I may just tear out the last remnants of my hairline lol.

    * kind of proto-fascist thinking tbh.

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    • sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Glad you mentioned the “adults”. That was a recurring line from the media in Trump’s first administration, “Oh, we’re waiting for the ‘Adults in the Room’ to…”

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