AI works, we lose our jobs.
Which means we can focus on the work we want to do, rather than the work we have to do… right?
Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 days ago
AI works, we lose our jobs.
AI doesn’t work, bubble pops, we lose our jobs.
AI sorta kinda works, wages get depressed and things turn into a dystopian hellhole.
Not that much reason to be positive and he doesn’t know how to fix it.
Huang doesn’t have a solution for the very real risk of job displacement
Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.org 3 days ago
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 days ago
Cue Sam Altman saying abundance every two sentences but never explaining how that would work.
evol@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Isn’t the optimal situation here that AI doesn’t really work but we all keep believing the bubble?
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 days ago
That’s what they’ve been trying to do by coming up with the next new shiny thing to invest in. Remember Blockchain, NFT and the like.
Still, the layoffs are here, so even if the bubble gets its time extended it won’t help the situation for many.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I’m not in the USA but layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts, the thing is they always need an excuse, and I don’t know is AI is really eating up jobs (I sort of doubt it, at least for now) but man is it the best excuse ever.
How I see the USA:
Henderson, how’s the Q2 forecast?
Not good, we need $1M!
Just fire 10 people!!
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 days ago
layoffs happen all the time when the economy contracts
Yeah, USA economy is stagnating or shrinking and it’s just the AI bubble holding everything up.
DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I guess it’s implied, but he doesn’t have a solution because for him it’s not a problem, it’s the intended result.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 days ago
Like that time they asked Peter Thiel if he thinks the human race should survive, and there was this long pregnant pause.