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
    24·
    5 天前

    “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
    18·
    5 天前

    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
    71·
    5 天前

    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
      32·
      5 天前

      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·
        5 天前

        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·
        5 天前

        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·
          5 天前

          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·
            5 天前

            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…

  • Abyssian@lemmy.world
    3·
    5 天前

    Fuck that guy. Doing stuff can be fun, but the minute you have to do said stuff it turns to shit.

    If a friend invites you to a spontaneous bbq drunken pool party that can be a ton of fun. But if it’s scheduled in advance then odds are when the day comes you’ll sort of wish you could just stay home because now it feels like something you’re obligated to do.

    Even porn stars don’t want to wake up and get ready for work, and their job is literally fucking porn stars.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 天前

    That’s when you stop an interview and ask them if they can hear the rest of the planet screaming ‘Fuck you!’ to that comment.