AI fails

[Pblakeney]

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That's some going by the Democrats to be so unpopular despite Trump being Trump!

That was my initial take too. The US is up the creek, lost it's paddle and is holed beneath the waterline.

 

[Psamathe]

Beyond the headline it doesn't say if it’s positive or negative sentiment.

 

[briantrumpet]

Beyond the headline it doesn't say if it’s positive or negative sentiment.

The X axis is marked as -50, -40 etc., going all the way up to zero. I wonder if there's anything they approve of, other than donuts [sic] and SUVs the size of a small US state.

 

[briantrumpet]

That was my initial take too. The US is up the creek, lost it's paddle and is holed beneath the waterline.

The Democrats seem to be as popular as Starmer, though at least Starmer has got the excuse of actually being in power, whereas the Democrats have been staring at an open goal, and the most they can muster is a little bit of moaning, with their hands on their hips.

 

[Pblakeney]

The Democrats seem to be as popular as Starmer, though at least Starmer has got the excuse of actually being in power, whereas the Democrats have been staring at an open goal, and the most they can muster is a little bit of moaning, with their hands on their hips.

Not even a Paddington hard stare.

 

[BoldonLad]

They are really f(l)ailing on this – they can't bear the thought that they might be 'left behind' or not ready to 'seize the 'transformational' benefits' of AI, and either don't seem to understand the risks, or have been hypnotised by the marketing (or $s) of the AI companies, and don't dare be publicly sceptical or cautious.

I am old enough to rememberer pre-AI promises of a "leisure generation". Subsequently, we have had entire Industries either totally wiped out, or, at least substantially reduced in size, with the subsequent displacement of existing employees and lack of opportunity for the next generation.

If AI lives up to it's promise, there will be more of the same, if it doesn't, we still have the results of the death of heavy industry and coal mining to deal with (it is the source of many of the "left behinds" occasionally mentioned on here).

I may have missed it, but, I have yet to see any Political Initiative to deal with, what may become, the "new reality" ie massive numbers of unemployed, under employed, and/or poorly paid.

 

[Psamathe]

I am old enough to rememberer pre-AI promises of a "leisure generation".

Or unlimited free energy from nuclear power.

 

[BoldonLad]

Or unlimited free energy from nuclear power.

Yes, always just about there 😂 We have a Physicist in our drinking group, his standard answer is "25 years" 😂

 

[briantrumpet]

I see they got more sense out of FB chat than I did when I was locked out for four months.

 

[swee'pea99]

I am old enough to rememberer pre-AI promises of a "leisure generation". Subsequently, we have had entire Industries either totally wiped out, or, at least substantially reduced in size, with the subsequent displacement of existing employees and lack of opportunity for the next generation.

If AI lives up to it's promise, there will be more of the same, if it doesn't, we still have the results of the death of heavy industry and coal mining to deal with (it is the source of many of the "left behinds" occasionally mentioned on here).

I may have missed it, but, I have yet to see any Political Initiative to deal with, what may become, the "new reality" ie massive numbers of unemployed, under employed, and/or poorly paid.

Bottom line: AI is about to do to middle class occupations what automation did to working class occupations, completing the job of making human beings pretty much redundant, and no-one has a clue what's going to happen or what to do about it.

 

[Pblakeney]

Bottom line: AI is about to do to middle class occupations what automation did to working class occupations, completing the job of making human beings pretty much redundant, and no-one has a clue what's going to happen or what to do about it.

Mass unemployment?
No, I don't know what can be done short of revolution. Too many people in power have vested interests, or think it is in the peoples interests.

 

[BoldonLad]

Mass unemployment?
No, I don't know what can be done short of revolution. Too many people in power have vested interests, or think it is in the peoples interests.

Yes, such circumstances are ripe for a charismatic rabble rouser to appear on the scene. It is not like it has happened before is it?

 

[briantrumpet]

This is roughly where I think it's probably at... AI has been mahoosively oversold on the back of its LLM output (which is extraordinary, despite its current shortcomings). The poster here is a tech writer at the WSJ, not a nobody on a cycling forum.

 

[Pblakeney]

This is roughly where I think it's probably at... AI has been mahoosively oversold on the back of its LLM output (which is extraordinary, despite its current shortcomings). The poster here is a tech writer at the WSJ, not a nobody on a cycling forum.

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Stock markets in the far east had to be closed this morning due to massive sell offs.

 

[briantrumpet]

A failure of both AI for deciding that D-Day involved soldiers running into the sea to get to Normandy, and Yaxley-Lennon's education for using the image to make some point or other. Well, I guess it does make a point.