The A.I. Thread

[Wolven]

Speaking of the class war and where AI sits, here is a video of AOC detailing how the Republicans are not only blocking federal regulations on AI but they are also trying to make it so that states are unable to regulate AI. Failing to get that across the line, Trump is now just trying to make it an executive order.

The big AI companies are all dumping money into Trump (ballroom) as well as the Senate and Congress and they are looking to point their money at the midterms to sway the election next year.

AI could do great things and it could benefit many/all people. But without regulations to keep some safe guardrails in place the main function of AI will be to make profits for rich and powerful people and corporations at the expense of everyone else.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Russic

This is also why I think artists are ironically going to be ok in all this. People will search them out... the same can't be said for practitioners of almost any other job.

I was talking to an artist friend of mine the other day and we were discussing AI in the Adobe suite. His take was "stop trying to automate the fun part of my job... however, using AI to automatically clean up my layers is brilliant." I think we'll get to a place eventually where we find a sweet spot between the fun stuff we want to do and the monotonous stuff we don't.

People want that stage to hit yesterday, because we've lost the ability to be patient with anything. The old adage of "i want it to do my dishes so I can do art" is bang-on, but also that's not the order it's going to go in because doing the dishes is way harder for a robot than making art. We'll get there, but we're going to have to ride it out a few more years, and not kill ourselves with it before then.

You're so hopelessly optimistic with AI, I love it. It's very obvious where social media and Ai are taking us.