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Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
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Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#32"The leopard certainly wouldn't eat _my_ face!"
> to make intelligence available for everyone
say that again but slowly..
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#33As a tech small business owner this is unfair that I can't be as smart by using the same level of intelligence as the top companies in the usa. This policy just keeps the powerful in power. And it's crazy because I already lost my job due to AI.
> same level of intelligence as the top companies in the usa.
I would not be worried about it at all. These models are expensive to train and after shrinking the market for these models to just few entities, it will take centuries to just break even.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#34More often than not, money is never truly lost; it is just passed from one person's hand to another. I believe that with the help of the big tech companies, governments have found faster and better ways to move money from the hands of the many with little into the hands of the few with a lot. The layoffs are an example of this as coders, assitance and other white-collar workers are replaced by AI for low prices so as…
money is never truly lost
In fact, money is printing every day more and more. So technically there is more of them every day. Which decrease their value and then we have inflation.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why do we need constant innovation?
Because if spread equally and used responsibly, it raises quality of life for everyone. Generally speaking, the vast majority of people alive today have far easier lives than hunter-gatherers. There is less famine and starvation. There is less fatal disease, etc.
> Because if spread equally and used responsibly
That ‘if’ is Atlas carrying the entire world on its shoulders.
It should be clear by now that at global scales and with competing interests, the entire premise is impossible.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because if spread equally and used responsibly, it raises quality of life for everyone. Generally speaking, the vast majority of people alive today have far easier lives than hunter-gatherers. There is less famine and starvation. There is less fatal disease, etc.
> Because if spread equally and used responsibly That ‘if’ is Atlas carrying the entire world on its shoulders. It should be clear by now that at global scales and with competing interests, the entire premise is impossible.
Not really, western countries were doing a lot of that in the 20th century (amongst themselves, anyway). Then the 80s happened.
Or what, do people think that the boomers were all that good, that they genuinely earned everything they got? The generations before just worked out how to govern properly.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#37The counter to this is how cheap it has become to build with these tools as an individual. The same models used by large companies are accessible via API to a solo developer. Distribution is still the hard problem, not access.
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Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#38More often than not, money is never truly lost; it is just passed from one person's hand to another. I believe that with the help of the big tech companies, governments have found faster and better ways to move money from the hands of the many with little into the hands of the few with a lot. The layoffs are an example of this as coders, assitance and other white-collar workers are replaced by AI for low prices so as…
This kind of thinking is the root of most populist rhetoric - that money and wealth is zero sum and it just shifts hands.
This is false and a dangerous rabbit hole of an ideology to get into.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#39More often than not, money is never truly lost; it is just passed from one person's hand to another. I believe that with the help of the big tech companies, governments have found faster and better ways to move money from the hands of the many with little into the hands of the few with a lot. The layoffs are an example of this as coders, assitance and other white-collar workers are replaced by AI for low prices so as…
This kind of thinking is the root of most populist rhetoric - that money and wealth is zero sum and it just shifts hands. This is false and a dangerous rabbit hole of an ideology to get into.
Difficult argument to make with the huge increase in wealth disparity the last several decades.
Re: Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
#40More often than not, money is never truly lost; it is just passed from one person's hand to another. I believe that with the help of the big tech companies, governments have found faster and better ways to move money from the hands of the many with little into the hands of the few with a lot. The layoffs are an example of this as coders, assitance and other white-collar workers are replaced by AI for low prices so as…
money is never truly lost In fact, money is printing every day more and more. So technically there is more of them every day. Which decrease their value and then we have inflation.
But, ideally, with each day, more useful products and services are being made and delivered. It'd be useful to have extra dollars around to account for more stuff being made and more things being done. Thus having more dollars in existence doesn't necessarily mean the value of a dollar is decreasing.
What does cause inflation, however, is when more dollars are printed versus things being made. You can't precisely measure the latter, so you have to make do with price indices and such. Which makes inflation hard to actually gauge, especially when everyone expects more and more to be produced every year (i.e. they expect their savings and investments to appreciate/gain interest) so you have to print more dollars to at least keep up the facade.