9point6@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is kinda cope
Practically everyone’s job is going to be automated away before long, the important thing is that production is socialised before practically 1 guy owns everything and has to pay no one.
At that point things end up pretty concrete.
These opinion pieces that pop up saying “ha-HA! Behold the petard they’re hoisting themselves with!” Kinda miss the importance of preparation.
They falsely expect an easing to an exponential curve.
The cat leapt out of the bag decades ago, we all need to make sure we’ve got something left at the end of it all
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 week ago
We haven’t yet made an AI that can replace anyone’s job, so it might be better to hold off on resigning ourselves to that fate.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
I replaced all of my online contractors with AI. Our business will only hire local people from now on.
It is well worth the money, and we just had it write a few programs that do what those contractors did.
It sums up our email inbox for us.
It writes near perfect customer responses (trained on our business data).
I’m not sure what to tell you but some of you are going to be blindsided.
It’s just a small business, too. Now that we don’t need to pay those contractors (who did a worse job than what we get now) we are scaling up.
Believe me or don’t but i can’t be the only one doing this.
drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So it can just talk about things in a limited scope believably. Okay.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hard to tell what the actual value is here since “Online contractors” is a bit vague. AI coding is error prone and pretty limited. It’s basically a requirement to have someone to babysit it and studies done on this exact arrangement have shows that practically speaking far more time is wasted implementing AI in this arrangement than just having people do it.
The customer responses thing is fairly simple but is one of those cases where it works until it doesn’t. Small hallucinations by AI can mean serious liability for companies.
When I say “AI can’t replace anyone’s job” I don’t mean that you physically can’t fire somebody and then turn on an AI, but that it is not and likely won’t ever be a worthwhile replacement. In your case you’ve “replaced people with AI” in the same sense as you can “replace” someone by firing them and not hiring a replacement at all.
eldebryn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It doesn’t have to be AI. automation has already made a lost of jobs trivial or irrelevant, which is why we are so productive as a species and yet still do 40hr weeks.
Try searching for the theory of “bullshit jobs”. It’s all just patchwork to keep global capitalism based economy going in circles.