There is a machine learning bubble, but the technology is here to stay. Once the bubble pops, the world will be changed by machine learning. But it will probably be crappier, not better.

What will happen to AI is boring old capitalism. Its staying power will come in the form of replacing competent, expensive humans with crappy, cheap robots.

AI is defined by aggressive capitalism. The hype bubble has been engineered by investors and capitalists dumping money into it, and the returns they expect on that investment are going to come out of your pocket. The singularity is not coming, but the most realistic promises of AI are going to make the world worse. The AI revolution is here, and I don’t really like it.

    • lloram239@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      we are spreading FUD

      You are spreading FUD right in this post: “poorly regurgitating our shit without our permission”

      • There is no need for permission, that’s not how copyright works
      • It’s not “poorly regurgitating”, it’s for most part original and of high quality

      You wanna be taken serious? Stop repeating the nonsense as everybody else.

      And as for “replace us at our jobs”, that’s not a problem, that’s called progress. If you want UBI or something along the line, go fight for that, don’t make stupid arguments against AI.

      That does not mean everyone’s critique is ignorant.

      Well, maybe, still waiting for reading one that isn’t. Since everybody just keeps repeating the same nonsense, including you right now.

      The only sensible one I heard so far was from Hinton, which simply suggested putting about equal money into AI safety research as we do into AI research. Nothing wrong with that, though that will probably just show us more ways in which AI can go wrong and less on how to prevent it.

        • lloram239@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          Oh yeah, I forgot copyright law was this static and beautiful thing that never gets reassessed or re-contextualized.

          So you want it changed in such a way that it grands Google, Adobe and Co. exclusive ownership over powerful AI models and kills all Open Source efforts? Congratulations for proving my point.

          And you wonder why nobody takes you people seriously…