Replace humans with machines? I have no idea. What is the goal if they replace humans with machines,? Sure they can outwork humans but at what cost.
Is it to make corporations richer? Maybe, but who will be able to buy their merchandise if no one is employed but the ultra wealthy?
One has to think about the future. Sure stocks will go up since the ultra rich own most of the stocks.
My question is what happens to the 80% of the population that's not wealthy
Drive thrm poorer or give us all free money.
Either way inflation will skyrocket.
CHEERS!!
MAV
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Just ask AI what AI is 😜
Revolution. We are due for one
what is the point of typewriters? scribes will lose their jobs. What is the point of automated textile machines? Taxile workers will lose their jobs. What is the point of cars? coachmen will lose their jobs.
A great short sell.
real soon
The AI field, in the general sense, is the field where we figure out how to move different kinds of tasks from the “only humans can do this” bucket to the “computers can do this, too” bucket.
The latest fad in AI is “generative” AI, using large language models (LLMs) for generating prose via Transformers, or diffusion models for generating images or video.
Like other AI technologies, LLMs are “narrow AI” — they can only do a few kinds of tasks, and are not “general AI” which would be capable of replacing humans entirely.
However, various commercial interests (chiefly OpenAI) are pushing a narrative that LLM technology will become general-AI “any day now”, in order to coax investors into granting them more rounds of funding, upon which they are dependent.
Those investors are starting to suspect they’re being strung along, but they keep up the funding anyway, because they’re not *sure* general AI isn’t coming soon, but they do know that if general AI comes to market and they don’t own a piece of it, they will be the biggest losers in the history of losing.
So they keep shoveling more and more money into the furnace, and OpenAI gets to keep their lights on.
When the roosters come to roost, [as they always do with these AI boom cycles,](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter) those investors will lose their investments and the AI startups will be acquired by companies with actual net profits. “AI” will cease to be a buzz term for a while, and these technologies (LLM and diffusion) will become “just technology” — [another phenomenon we’ve seen recur.](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect)
LLM inference and diffusion will become powerful NLP tools in engineers’ toolbelts, just like the products of past AI boom cycles — compilers, databases, regular expressions, search engines, OCR, etc. They will become a common feature of new products and services, but nobody will think of them as “AI” anymore.
This has all happened before, and it will all happen again, so take a deep breath, take the hype with a grain of salt, and worry a little less.
People were stupid enough to think like yourself in the undustrial industry..