@AlisonCreekside Also, society can survive without...

@AlisonCreekside Also, society can survive without ChatGPT and many of the AI tools being created. What actual value do the models of AI bring for society as a whole that isn't, in fact, negative value and harm? (This does not mean we couldn't find useful and actually constructive uses for these technologies but that's not what we're doing.)

Like 8 January at 20:23 | Wall-to-wall | Open on eldritch.cafe

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Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

@fifilamoura @AlisonCreekside

The focus on making AI do what makes us human is something I feel is deeply wrong when they could do things we cannot

10 January at 8:34 | Open on social.linux.pizza

Alison Creekside

@Archivist @fifilamoura Still early days for AI.

I worry that our blind addiction to capitalism over any other system of organizing ourselves on the planet will make many livelihoods redundant.

Recalling back when Alberta oilworkers were losing their jobs due to world oil pricing, tech bros were telling us those jobs were never coming back regardless if oil prices improved bc they were being hired to improve AI to automate jobs.

Meanwhile ChatGPT can't do crosswords 😏
h/t @pbump

@Archivist @fifilamoura Still early days for AI.

I worry that our blind addiction to capitalism over any other system of organizing ourselves on the planet will make many livelihoods redundant.

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10 January at 9:29 | Open on mstdn.ca

Ludovic Archivist Lagouardette

@AlisonCreekside @fifilamoura @pbump

Well, to quote the title of an old artificial intelligence paper: Elephants do not play chess

10 January at 9:44 | Open on social.linux.pizza

ZILtoid1991

@fifilamoura
@AlisonCreekside
1) reducing the cost of art production through automation.
2) eliminating humans from art production, who might go on strike, get sick, have other ideas besides the media exec's vague idea, and might get terrified by a far-right government that takes theur right but would give low taxes to the media corporations in exchange of close cooperation.

11 January at 11:52 | Open on mastodon.world