A true man of the people… looking out for average man, absolutely no vested interest in hyping ai to the moon.
Earlier this year, Geoffrey Hinton, dubbed the “Godfather of AI,” highlighted the severe wealth disparity that AI developments could generate.
“We’re talking about having a huge increase in productivity. So there’s going to be more goods and services for everybody. So everybody ought to be better off, but actually it’s going to be the other way around,” Hinton stated during a panel discussion. “And it’s because we live in a capitalist society.”
“And so what’s going to happen is: this huge increase in productivity is going to make much more money for the big companies and the rich, and it’s going to increase the gap between the rich and the people who lose their jobs. And as soon as you increase that gap, you get fertile ground for fascism,” he continued. “And so it’s very scary that we may be at a point where we’re just making things worse and worse.”
This seems spot-on to me. All you downvoters obviously didn’t read the article.
Far be it for me to point out that the “godfather of AI” has a vested interest in AI being seen as more capable than maybe it actually is. But more to the point we know that AI systems like loose on an environment cause absolute chaos and fail disastrously.
There was an experiment a couple of months ago where they tried to get an AI to run a small business and I think at one point it ended up sending emails to the FBI claiming it had been defrauded because a product it ordered didn’t instantly materialise.
Always feels like it’s less that ai can’t do the things we keep trying to make it do. But that we are acting like we have had another 20 years of development in the tech.
So everyone’s just playing make believe and pretending it’s 2045 in 2025.
Unfortunately, this place became just like reddit.
Why is it that every time they say stuff like this it always sounds like an advertisement.
“Our product is going to bring about the end of days, buy it now!!!”
Good observation. I think part of it is, that’s just how these business douchebags talk about everything.
Sure, pal
Don’t worry, he will be saying the opposite after he dumps whatever stock he’s trying to pump.
So now it’s “AI” that should allow us to profit from the efficiency increases you assholes actively siphoned off for yourself for decades??
So like 10 guys will have jobs. Each with a $1,000,000.00 salary to incrementally continue feeding the rich. Below them everyone will be totally jobless so robots will be made to scrape them off the streets. The “garbage” (us) will be then tricked out to the generator “rooms” powering the AI turbines.
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Not if you only receive 40% of the wages too because the gains go to the capitalists.
Well, he too needs to stay relevant somehow. Making ragebait statements is one way.
Bill Gates is full of shit
Always has been *astronaut meme *
He also partied with Epstein.
Bill Gates a lucky autismo with a privileged upbringing that never gets mentioned. If he knew what he was doing, be would have nuked davos and the G7 decades ago
It’s common knowledge that his parent’s wealth opened doors for him.
privileged upbringing that never gets mentioned
I think you’re 20 or 25 years out of date on that one.
More like 40
There is a vital question coming up. When the machines do all the work, does that mean everyone eats? Or no one?
Right now it is “no one” roughly speaking. That must change. There is no future for anyone there, just nightmares unfolding and unfolding.
It‘s phrased „warns“ because it is just assumed that no one will eat. Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society. That we‘ll all just starve to death soon.
I don‘t think we will but it‘s telling that a lot of rich and influential people do and are not only letting it happen but actively supporting it.
Because apparently that‘s a normal thing to assume in our society.
It’s just very difficult to think outside of society , to think of a working society without the organizing power of money and labor. And even more difficult to think about the path to get there.
…unless you have watched Star Trek and the like.
Well we are on our way to WW3 so perhaps we’ll get there.
The good news is that the guiding document for the AI robots will be called “How to Serve Man”. The bad news is it’s a cookbook. :)
Touche good sir! ))
Sounds good to me.
I get to keep the same salary and just use AI to make my work easier, right?
Right?
That’s what I do. Used it to replace a shitty boss and then use it to make my work easier. My new boss is so high up in the clouds he has no idea how much work I actually do and how long it takes, as long as whatever they want eventually gets done.
Microsoft can’t even make a good operating system anymore. I don’t trust their ability to make an operating system work on a weekly basis.
What’s that got to do with bill gates?
He’s still a huge influence on the company.
He used to be the CEO and M$ is pushing AI every way they can, regardless
I stopped to take a piss at an Arby’s once. Does that make me a cowboy?
No, but if started, and owned Arby’s in a monopoly position for years, and then left… for many years, you’d be blamed for the state of the burger business. (Especially if you bother to comment on it, like Gates is doing)
howdy pardner
Gee, Mikey. I think he likes you
He’s been out for years. While I can’t condone his methods in the late 90s (IE vs Netscape), he had nothing to do with the MSFT strategy in the current AI fad.
He hasnt been CEO for decades, but he was on the board up until 2020 when MS’s current AI strategy was being developed and executed. His current big push is energy projects, all intended as AI power sources, along with actual AI companies.
You’re conflating the two, but that’s exactly what he had to doggo with it. QED
1000000% correct
So it sounds like he’s saying no one will work enough to qualify for employer sponsored healthcare… Or at least be able to afford it.
So congrats, don’t ever get sick or lose a job! Plus your taxes are going up. Fuck you, you should have been a rich pedophile if you wanted differently!
Thanks for spending billions on malaria, asshole. If you would have paid your fucking taxes and supported the country we wouldn’t be in this mess.
Oh yeah, a politically unstable US will directly lead to local conflict between factions in African countries. Thanks to your malaria funding there’s now more rape victims and child soldiers than ever!
Don’t forget HIV, which the US is no longer supplying aid for
Problem - They’ll want to pay you for 0 days a week.
