While there arguments about the value of the companies making the AI agents, the fear of real humans being replaced by AI agents in the work force, and the environmental concerns of the data centers… the AI itself is an immensely helpful, and immensely powerful tool that is definitely not a fad that is going to disappear and definitely not used just by idiots
Here’s an article about AI being trained look at X-Rays and successfully diagnosing 11 patients with early breast cancer that was missed by the human Doctors
Yeah… I don’t know how the general public is using AI, but it’s definitely a very useful tool. I understand it comes with a lot of issues regarding privacy, content rights, and predatory mega corporation practices, but the tool itself is useful. And we don’t even need to rely on Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic nowadays to use it. Open-weight models that run locally on open source agents are already pretty capable for a lot of daily tasks. I think a lot of people fail to understand is that it can be used responsible as a tool to help on tasks and automation instead of being a tool to be trusted blindly. I sure will not try to convince anyone to use it, specially if they don’t want to, but playing pretend that it’s a useless technology does not help either.
AI will never replace labor, only increase productivity like every technology has always done. Even for the jobs that a technology might completely replace in a similar way to human computers, labor will reorganize itself to where it is needed. This is a law of economics that delusional techbros seem to have forgotten, and it is why we will never have an automated future so long as we have capitalism.
I have not “already lost the battle” because I never believed that the technology was useless. Machine learning is an incredibly powerful technology that absolutely helps with certain things(like the pattern recognition involved in diagnosing cancers from X-rays), but it is not magic. It hasn’t delivered the boosts in productivity that oligarchs yearn for, despite all the investment. It’s a bubble that will burst eventually, sending the economy into a recession that will absolutely suck.
I’m not anti-machine learning; I’m anti-AI. The technology was as inevitable as the fall of this sorry excuse for AI. We’re still a ways out from genuine artificial intelligence, and it probably isn’t even something that we actually want.
Okay, then the fools of the future can look on me poorly. I’ll hold the same level of disdain for them.
Your argument is “everyone else is a idiot, so you’ll look very foolish if you don’t become an idiot too!” no, I’ll just be even more tired.
They’re not idiots though
While there arguments about the value of the companies making the AI agents, the fear of real humans being replaced by AI agents in the work force, and the environmental concerns of the data centers… the AI itself is an immensely helpful, and immensely powerful tool that is definitely not a fad that is going to disappear and definitely not used just by idiots
Here’s an article about AI being trained look at X-Rays and successfully diagnosing 11 patients with early breast cancer that was missed by the human Doctors
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68607059
Yeah… I don’t know how the general public is using AI, but it’s definitely a very useful tool. I understand it comes with a lot of issues regarding privacy, content rights, and predatory mega corporation practices, but the tool itself is useful. And we don’t even need to rely on Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic nowadays to use it. Open-weight models that run locally on open source agents are already pretty capable for a lot of daily tasks. I think a lot of people fail to understand is that it can be used responsible as a tool to help on tasks and automation instead of being a tool to be trusted blindly. I sure will not try to convince anyone to use it, specially if they don’t want to, but playing pretend that it’s a useless technology does not help either.
AI will never replace labor, only increase productivity like every technology has always done. Even for the jobs that a technology might completely replace in a similar way to human computers, labor will reorganize itself to where it is needed. This is a law of economics that delusional techbros seem to have forgotten, and it is why we will never have an automated future so long as we have capitalism.
I have not “already lost the battle” because I never believed that the technology was useless. Machine learning is an incredibly powerful technology that absolutely helps with certain things(like the pattern recognition involved in diagnosing cancers from X-rays), but it is not magic. It hasn’t delivered the boosts in productivity that oligarchs yearn for, despite all the investment. It’s a bubble that will burst eventually, sending the economy into a recession that will absolutely suck.
I’m not anti-machine learning; I’m anti-AI. The technology was as inevitable as the fall of this sorry excuse for AI. We’re still a ways out from genuine artificial intelligence, and it probably isn’t even something that we actually want.