Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term::Despite today’s AI hype, it’s still a “truly transformational” technology that will replace jobs unless policy steps in, Suleyman said.
I WOULD like to pump my own gas, please. Don’t force me to pay somebody else to do it for me
While I agree that less mindless work is better as someone from nj, it’s quite nice not having to get out of my car to pump gas when it’s cold windy rainy or snowing or stupidly hot
They also wipe windshields and rear windows for free with the squeegee stick
Maybe in some future where we drive up to automated car chargers that can plug ur car in or auto battery swaps I’ll call gas pumpers redundant but honestly It’s not that bad a deal if it needs a person
Unless the worker is vastly underpaid nothing is worth that
It sucks because it should be a good thing that it replaces labor. We could have more time to be humans.
But instead, less labor = more money for the rich and more misery for the rest
Tax the rich, (not taxing AI that would be stupid) and redistribute the money via UBI.
Also reduce work week to 4 days and have mandatory overtime for working more than 32 hours a week. Work week to be reduced as ai replaces more jobs.
Nobel please.
I agree 100% with you. I will write a letter of recommendation for you.
Cheers. I hope you’re somebody because I’m not, I need the connections for this.
…Which means people can labor less without losing their quality of life, right?
What is the path to UBI from here? AI tax?
@los_chill @LWD there isn’t one. The oligarchs and billionaires want feudalism.
In a more reasonable world, it would be something levied at the people who demand (and have been receiving) infinite growth…
A wealth tax.
That would only happen if people thought the disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.
It means people get to starve in poverty because society has simultaneously decided that if you are t already rich then you must work as a moral imperative, but there is no work, and so while starving in poverty is unavoidable, you deserve it anyway.
Because we live in a fucking dystopia.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Oxford dropout worked as a negotiator for the United Nations and the Dutch government early in his career, but then pivoted to AI and founded DeepMind in 2010 alongside Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg.
The machine learning lab grew like a weed under Suleyman, with the backing of Peter Thiel’s Founders’ Fund, before selling to Google parent company Alphabet for £400 million in 2014.
While Suleyman expects AI to “augment us and make us smarter and more productive for the next couple decades,” over the long term, its impact is still “an open question.”
In a Jan. 10 Wired article, MIT professor Daron Acemoglu predicted that AI would disappoint everyone in 2024, proving itself merely a form of “so-so automation” that will take jobs from workers but fail to deliver the expected monumental improvements to productivity.
The true impact of AI, from its ability to birth revolutionary technologies to its potential to stoke epic job losses, likely won’t hit for years.
“AI is truly one of the most incredible technologies of our lifetimes, but at the same time, it feels like expectations about its delivery are higher than they’ve ever been and maybe we have hit a kind of peak hype for this moment,” he explained.
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No shit?
That’s why these companies need to be taxed heavier (and tax loopholes closed) in order to cover basic necessities and reeducation of the workforce using UBI.
Sucks that we live in the one timeline where AI is guaranteed to become an agent of coercion and exploitation, and do a better job than any human at optimizing the system of inequality.
by definition that wouldn’t be the case, there would be an infinite number of timelines like that.
Good?
Why don’t we want machines doing the work we don’t want to do?
Oh right, white collar workers want to hold everyone else back so they don’t have to adapt.
Where have I seen this before…
Yeah no shit. Any media hack who tells you otherwise is misinformed, on some hidden payroll, or willfully ignorant
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
New technologies are eventually used to disenfranchise and disempower people.
Lol, what? Are you familiar with the Luddites?
