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.