AI is currently the solution to all problems in the same way Uber was once the solution to all problems. In 5 -10 years when the venture comes to get it's profits and cost sky rocket it feels like most companies will scale back use. But in the mean time it will probably decimate a couple of industries that will never recover in the same way.
@stefan yupppp the same way that social media was once the solution to all problems the same way that ecommerce was once the solution to all problems the same way that personal computers were once the solution to all problems etc etc. why do we keep falling for this garbage
@aparrish I do think back to before I was an adult. Reading all the past decent about the harms the internet would bring. The detractors were mostly right. The optimists were often wrong, though not entirely. And here we are. I think the internet was generally good? But I'm a huge benefactor of it so I don't really trust my judgement here.
I have a hard time applying that knowledge to now and figuring how to change my behavior.
@stefan yeah i think i'm specifically thinking about the harms that came from the capitalist speculation bubbles that arise around these technologies, rather than anything inherent in the technologies themselves (not that you can cleanly separate the two)
@aparrish good point. I want people to have safe stable lives. The government fails at this so it falls to companies as the last and only hope but are structurally not able to care about those things. What a terrible situation we find ourselves in.
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