I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)
My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.
You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.
You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.
While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.
and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker
There’s zero chance this catches on, nobody wants to get rid of a camera bump badly enough to carry around a second device.
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Everyone should get off X, I stopped using it the moment that Muskrat bought it. It wasn’t great before, but it’s turned into an absolute dumpster fire now.
The word you’re looking for is adoption, not adaptation.
I will literally build my own printer before ever subscribing to this bullshit.
Go fuck yourself hp, you are not as important as you think you are.
The instance would likely just act as a regular instance and allow normal users on, you couldn’t even tell they were using it to scrape data at that point.
During testing, sure… That’s not going to be the long term value.
There are autonomous cars on the road right now driving people around without anyone in the front seat. The article even admits this.
This entire article is just complaining that it’s happening slower than predicted as companies refine the technology, like that’s somehow a bad thing.
It’s still happening.
The equipment required to “make” a motherboard is orders of magnitude more expensive than anything you could afford.
There’s a reason why it’s all custom designed and there’s only a handful of board manufacturers in the entire world, most laptop companies don’t even have their own fabrication for these pieces, they just do the design and final assembly.
No, I have worked with a dozen or so organizations, but I’ve done multiple jobs for each. I’m a freelancer.
As for your second question, I’d like to see a basic income implemented for all citizens in my country. I’ve talked to my local politicians about it multiple times. It’s something that people now know about, which is good progress in my opinion. I don’t expect it to happen soon, but hopefully we’ll get there before we start to have too many social problems.
I’ve been following Doctorow for decades now (BoingBoing) and yes, he’s an idiot in this situation.
I’m still working with the organizations I started automating for more than a decade ago. I’m sitting in the office of one of them right now. It’s worked out great, nobody is complaining about the fact that this office space now has people at separated desks instead of crunched together like they were when I started. If it makes you feel any better, I almost exclusively do this for government and public organizations (I’m at a post-secondary education institution right now) though I really don’t care.
Stopping or stalling productivity improvements is stupid, that job is effectively useless if it can be automated, it’s nothing more than make-work to keep it. We should pass laws to redistribute wealth to solve that problem, not keep them in useless jobs by preventing automation.
Another idiot writer missing how AI works… along with every other automation and productivity increase.
I literally automate jobs for a living.
My job isn’t to eliminate the role of every staff member in a department, it’s to take the headcount from 40 to 20 while having the remaining 20 be able to produce the same results. I’ve successfully done this dozens of times in my careers, and generative AI is now just another tool we can use to get that number down a little bit lower or more easily than we could before.
Will I be able to take a unit of 2 people down to 0 people? No, I’ve never seen a process where I could eliminate every human.
Except for the one I bought it turns out…
It’s a little more expensive, but most places can find the space by drilling straight down. Still worth it from what I’ve seen in most places.
You’re missing the training even a child has received to reach the state where they could do that. If you raised a child to 5 years completely by themselves in an empty room they wouldn’t be able to draw anything at all, let alone something based on pictures. The act of drawing a variation on a bunny from a picture requires they learn and practice fine motor skills, and it requires them to have an understanding of animals.
Humans get literally 150,000+ hours of training time before we even let them try to become an adult.
Jackson Pollock didn’t create paintings, Jackson Pollock’s art was story telling and showmanship.
Yes, in order to learn a spoken language you have to have heard it. However, languages evolve over time. You develop regional accents and dialects. All of the UK speaks English but no two towns speak the same way.
Just like different models have their own patterns of writing…
You’re thinking about LLMs like they’re equivalent to multiple people(or groups of people) but each LLM is equivalent to a single person. The training and resulting function of each one is as distinct as an individual human.
I could raise one of my children to perform the exact same functions as an LLM or art creation tool. Give them exactly the same image/text sets that these models are trained on, and have them practice for a decade or two. Then I could tell them “Hey I need a picture of an orange rabbit riding a bike” and they could draw me one, or write a story about the same topic. There’s clearly no copyright infringement in that process, so why would it be different for creating a machine to do the same thing?
It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.