The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems.
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@tante So what is the point of being a human being? Altman and his AI mates are weapons of mass destruction.
Oh hey, #chatCEO talks about intelligence.
The take is absolutely correct. The purpose of AI is to enslave the population to concentrate economic and political power for instance.
My chief question with any piece of technology is who ends up with power.
This is the first question to answer before anything else
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This reminds me of a Johnny Mnemonic scenario, where any of us may have unauthorized data in our head that could be picked up by brain scans, resulting in criminal charges, civil liability and forced extraction.
*Torment Nexus is a warning not a business plan meme*
Not long ago, I had this thought about how individuals with dark triad personality traits, which include psychopathy in addition to Machiavellianism and narcissism is that they read out of dystopic science fiction something completely different than somebody who has functioning empathy.
Because they don’t have the mirror cells reacting to what’s described they can’t read the dystopia
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
@tante It's not just based on hope, there is a lot of research going into making people dumb and brain control in general. I'm sure there are already more technological solutions to this problem, like neurolink and similar technologies.
IMHO the main idea here is that allowing people to run around without controlling their brains is very dangerous, who knows what they might think of.
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@mossman yeah I didn't find his argument very convincing tbh
I don’t know what his argument is, but one thing I will ask about any technology is who ends up in control. With computers that people could buy for not so much money and software producing music became widely available. But we are not free of consolidated control of distribution. Musicians are still kind of fucked. See Spotify.
If computers were AI processing is not widely available we’re fucked. There is already talk of personal computers being made for lease only.
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Koch Network kept Uber & Lyfft afloat for a decade to thwart public transportation projects.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-public-transit.html
An Unholy Alliance Against Public Transit
Uber and the Kochs aren't often mentioned in the same sentence. But the rideshare company has joined the far-right billionaire-funded operation on a libertarian crusade to destroy public transit.
(jacobin.com)
To thwart a fossil fuel phase out, Koch Network is again lending its financial support to something unsustainable, polluting, & undemocratic.
The Koch Network Is Pushing Trump to Accelerate AI, Documents Show
Right-wing political group Americans for Prosperity, backed by oil and gas billionaire Charles Koch, sees data centers as part of a larger pro-fossil fuel agenda.
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
Funders commit $1B toward developing AI tools for frontline workers
A coalition of philanthropic funders will spend $1 billion over 15 years to help develop artificial intelligence tools to help spur economic mobility.
AP News (apnews.com)
irony in that they’ve installed a party and a president with who engaged in a war that will demonstrate yet again why global supply chains in this case the global supply chain dependent on oil, not only for energy, but as a feed stock necessary for their industrialized food, production and for the extraction of resources necessary not only for “green” energy but almost everything in the global supply chain infrastructure is fragile
The great simplification is a thing
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It's extra funny because his technology is garbage and is not capable, in any form, of replacing or even augmenting human intelligence.
Any database in which 20% of the data is wrong, but you don't know which 20%, is a database in which 100% of the data is useless.
He can dream shit like this up as much as he wants, but it's not going to happen.
No matter how much the Bosses shovel LLMs down our throats, they're never going to not be garbage.
Altman’s superpower is as a mesmerizer.
He is an extremely proficient con man.
What the human race needs is a much more violent reaction to people like him in that they violently reject the con they just are allergic to it and treat people like him as the pariah he needs to be
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@tante Rick Beato - of all people - made me much more optimistic this morning when he pointed out that far from "owning" the LLMs, all the tech bro companies will go the way of the big expensive music studios when everyone ends up doing it themselves on their own laptop. Excellent point well made, I think...
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
@tante the one thing companies have taught us over the years is that no one person and no one thing is irreplaceable, when it comes to cost spending nothing is always a businesses first priority...
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
@tante All they have to do now is to lobby against public health initiatives or e.g. lobby for banning face masks...
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@BubblegumYeti @tante my 16 year old desktop is still going strong (in fact, Windows games now run better under Linux). Hardware can last a long time these days if the user has control. Unlike the phone I bought three years ago for my work mail and Teams... where the &%^£ing corporate admin has just decided that the Android version is too old and therefore "insecure" and bricked the work account! (I am pissed off they expect me to buy a new phone because of their stupid policy!)
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@BubblegumYeti @tante my 16 year old desktop is still going strong (in fact, Windows games now run better under Linux). Hardware can last a long time these days if the user has control. Unlike the phone I bought three years ago for my work mail and Teams... where the &%^£ing corporate admin has just decided that the Android version is too old and therefore "insecure" and bricked the work account! (I am pissed off they expect me to buy a new phone because of their stupid policy!)
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
@tante
NOW we are talking!
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116209449941602124
@cwebber @tante yesterday @nixCraft was more on spot than I thought
@xgebi @cwebber @tante @nixCraft it is not just code or programming it is all cognitive capabilities. Writing. Drawing. Inventing. Planning. Criticising. Condensing.
And the more I talk to AI users, they are using it because they are lonely. And they are looking for companions. Living people might not be available all the time. The ai is. I fear the damage in social structures.
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
I can't wait for the day when I can reasonably self-host intelligence, rather than depending on a large corporation.
Wait a second...
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RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Fuck Altman and all these fucking clownbags
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