Somehow, AI is going to be responsible for both dystopia and utopia. But the good news is we have 18 months to get ready!
Artificial intelligence was not developed to usher in a dystopia, in fact it had a rather utopic mission. By further automating mundane tasks, AI has the potential to ease the workload of millions of workers worldwide in every job and field, potentially giving them back their precious time of the day without sacrificing overall productivity.
Yeah, good luck with that.
In reality, everyone gets fired, the rich get richertge poor get poorer and 99.9% of humans will live in a dystopia, if AI doesn’t kill us all.
Yet the AI bros go like “that won’t happen to ME though!”
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
AI boosters and doomers fundamentally believe the same thing.
They collectively agree is that AI will be Great and Awesome, in the old sense of the words. In their minds they are building God and so it can bring about either utopia or dystopia, because it is so Great and Awesome that all hitherto history will cease to matter and the godmachine will recreate the world in its image.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Our techbro leaders are so wise they can’t tell the difference between God and a statistical plagiarism machine.
TheOneCurly@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
Yep it's horoscopes for techbros. Come into it with unreasonable expectations and read whatever meaning you want out of it. Infinite validation machine.
phonics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
all praise the autofill
Keyboard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
AGI doomers, yes.
I wouldn’t reject the label “AI Doomer”, myself. But I don’t have a strong position on utopia/dystopia when it comes to AGI.
Mostly because I think it’s so far away, that there’s a real good chance that we bet the farm on something much, much dumber than AGI.
Like a fancy autocomplete.
And hook it up to something unforgivably dangerous.
Like nukes.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The role of the doomer is to declare that, actually, AGI is juuust around the corner. And it’s scary! They’re doing the same hype as the boosters are, just from a different angle. It’s all the same crap, though.
But, yeah, realistically they’re going to put a chatbot in charge of something important and it’s going to fail and the bubble will pop.
Hopefully it’s something small and not the nuclear arsenal, but uh, these cultists really want to put chatbots in charge of the nukes.