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Notton “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” ― Frank Herbert, Dune Reply
ezst036 " If organizers can deliver millions of dollars in cash benefits to the ghetto masses, it seems reasonable to expect that the masses will deliver their loyalties to their benefactors. " – Frances Fox Piven, The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty If AI kills the vast majority of the jobs, UBI is the natural result. If everyone can be forced into UBI, then the entire country will vote for the welfare party. Forever. This is exactly in line with the Frank Herbert quote above. It's just the next inevitable step. Reply
DavidM012 Your leisure is their work and your work is their leisure. It's not work if you enjoy it or gruelling back breaking labor for a pittance. Cutting hair is someone's job or you can buy razor and shave all your hair off. It simply isn't easy to cut your own hair neatly with two mirrors in the style you like and save what is now £15-£17 for a trim. So is cutting nails or making sandwiches or tour guides or caring for an elderly relative. You can patch up your shoes with superglue or take them to a cobblers with all the machines and tools and get it done properly and pay a proportion (per capita) of all the machinery for what they call economies of scale eg. there are advantages and disadvantages to a variety of strategic approaches to solve the common problems of the business of living in the university of life. Some people think time is money and so delegate. I can do quantum research if you'd be so kind to make the sandwiches. Then combine automated factories with quantum processing AgI which can estimate the quantities of produce required accurately. In the pie in the sky fi future. 20 borg are about to break through that door, sing a song, do dance, distract them Tshtch. Quartermaster, out. Reply
SomeoneElse23 Once upon a time I knew of a customer that printed out a 300+ page report, every day, and reconciled it against their daily transactions. That was her job. There are regularly better ways to do things. AI can help with it, and in some cases, replace it. Reply
Findecanor To Tom's Hardware: Please give us a checkbox that we can check, to avoid getting the daily "Shit a billionaire says", so that those who want to don't have to see it among the actual tech news and reviews. It is getting a little tiring. Reply
hotaru251 hat many jobs that vanish in the age of large language models might not have been “real work” in the first place. so CEO's right? an AI could easily do their job than the actual working class's jobs. and said companies would save millions to biollions a yr by cutting their highest paid "workers" Reply
SomeoneElse23 hotaru251 said: so CEO's right? an AI could easily do their job than the actual working class's jobs. and said companies would save millions to biollions a yr by cutting their highest paid "workers" Fantastic idea! That's the best idea I've heard in a long time. Reply
LordVile Issue is everything is monopolising so you don’t have a choice. The AI customer service for example is useless but companies are making it increasingly more difficult to get past it to a person who can actually solve the issue and will eventually get rid of that person, then you can’t vote with your wallet and use someone else because every other place has replaced their customer services with AI. Reply
Heat_Fan89 ezst036 said: If AI kills the vast majority of the jobs, UBI is the natural result. If everyone can be forced into UBI, then the entire country will vote for the welfare party. Forever. This is exactly in line with the Frank Herbert quote above. It's just the next inevitable step. The inevitable next step is Digital ID's and digital currencies. Once implemented you will be subject to a digital concentration camp. You will be tracked and monitored. If you oppose the overlords, they will cut you off from their system. Digital ID's are already in play for the masses in Great Britain. This is a subject Tom's should cover because there is a technical side to it. Reply
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