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   ADisorderlyFashion (adisorderlyfashion@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 28-Mar-2024 06:22:57 JST ADisorderlyFashion

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I don't think it will kill "us", but it will indirectly lead to people dying because of how much the biggest players in tech seem to trust it with things that it clearly is not even close to ready for. Even if it doesn't kill us, the hypercapitalist hell we live in may as well kill the tens of thousands of people being canned because everyone thinks "AI" is more capable than the people who wrote it.

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 23:49:24 JST Tom Ritchford

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs You seem very very sure.

     I'm also a skeptic, but I am not so sure.

     I think an awful lot of BS jobs, like call centers, are at risk from BS AI. Yes, the error rate would go up, but the costs would plummet. Making call centers less useful might be part of the plan...

     AI's main threat is to jobs. Automated driving isn't generative AI, but will, eventually, kill nearly all the 10 million or so professional driving jobs in the US and some huge number of jobs elsewhere.

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     Tom Ritchford (tomswirly@toot.community)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 00:03:19 JST Tom Ritchford

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Some sort of argument would go a long way to helping me understand why.

     Again, take customer support.

     This is an area where 90% of the queries are one of perhaps a dozen questions. If generative AI can answer those with 90% accuracy, and then defer to a human, you've saved 80% of your personnel.

     Human customer support representatives have << 100% accuracy, too.

     It is impossible to be completely sure of non-trivial events in the future. Your very certainty makes me doubt.

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     nickdrawthing (nickdrawthing@dice.camp)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 22:58:23 JST nickdrawthing

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I think some of the comments here are missing the distinction between "generative AI" and Neural Networks. Neural networks are great, useful tools with many applications. Generative AI is an unpredictable, expensive mess built on top of Neural Networks, and I can't see the benefits ever outweighing the harms.