One of the many benefits promised early in the generative AI boom was that it would boost productivity to the point where most of us could work...
  • Wytch@lemmy.zipEnglish
    28·
    19 days ago

    “But somehow we never get the promise of the four-hour workweek at mass scale in society”

    You gonna Poe Dameron your way through that thought process, or you wanna do some serious ethical inquiry

    Hint: it was capitalists all along, stealing productivity and vitality

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    19·
    19 days ago

    There is no secret that humans enjoy being busy, the debate now mostly comes down to the question “with what”.

    If I had the money and time, I’d love being busy going on long road trips with my cameras taking photos and experiencing cool places.

    My summer vacation starts next week, I will be busy going down to Germany and riding an airship, then taking scenic trains in the Swiss alps, and later driving through Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and northern Italy, and then heading home to finish my three weeks off in Linköping attending the 100 year anniversary of the Swedish Air Force.

    I’ll be busy alright, but I’ll have far more fun than at work.

    So

  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
    81·
    19 days ago

    So we can just add that to the list of all the things AI was supposed to do but doesn’t?

    Because thats getting to be a really long list.

    • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      42·
      19 days ago

      Oh you old naysayer!

      Well, here’s a list things LLMs really do accomplish, and I want to see you debunk that!

      • Waste shittons of water
      • Waste Terrawatts of energy
      • Rob its regular users of cognitive skills at an unprecedented rate
      • Cost shittons of money
      • Cause severe shortage in electronic components needed for useful applications
      • Make billionairs even richer
      • Permanently destroy natural habitats that are bulldozed to build data centers
      • Make people living near datacenters sick from the noise
      • Cause electricity and water prices to spike

      Convinced of the benefits of this superb technolgy yet, or do you need more convincing?

      • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        Actually I was focused on all the positive things they promised, but couldn’t deliver. Rather than all the horrific negative side effects they pretend don’t exist.

        Those are two different lists.

      • Asafum@lemmy.world
        2·
        19 days ago

        Make billionairs even richer

        That one can be debunked! Apparently these fucks are playing accounting tricks and actually combined the major AI companies have over 1 Trillion in debt!

        So you could actually replace that fun fact with: will destroy the US economy when they collapse!

        • UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          3·
          19 days ago

          Ah, but corporate debt does not equal personal debt. If the guys running the show are not stupid, they will have made billions from this before the respective corporations go kaputt.

          • Asafum@lemmy.world
            4·
            19 days ago

            True enough. And they know the old saying “$100 of debt to the bank is a me problem. $1,000,000,000 of debt to the bank is a you problem.” So they’ll almost certainly get bailed out…