Conversation

"All this is quite fortunate for Altman. And this is an element of the rise of AI that I don’t see discussed enough: His omnipotent AI is struggling to be born at an extremely convenient moment. There’s a tight labor market, high employment, and companies are very eager to embrace technological tools to either replace human workers or wield as leverage against them. Read through that Times piece, and you hear company after company hungry to slash labor costs with AI — if only they could! That’s the vision corporate America sees cast on the walls, the product of generative AI’s smoke and mirrors: Artificial systems that can save them lots of money by making workers disappear. Once it was the implied presence of the devil that underwrote the delusion that a charlatan could bring back the dead, today, it’s the specter of AGI that animates the idea that AI will finally unleash mass job automation. "

(Original title: AI really is smoke and mirrors)

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is-smoke-and-mirrors