The risk of losing jobs to AI is looking a bit overstated, as we found out that Uber accidentally spent half a billion dollars on tokens by April this year, which was its annual budget, with little productivity gains to show for it.
Much more serious is the fact that these AI companies are still passing the cost of the electricity onto the rest of us. There needs to be a legal change where any user above some threshold has to be separate from the ordinary electric grid and their usage cannot impact ordinary users. AI is cool but we cannot tolerate these companies running these hype products which are already unprofitable and getting the public to pay for a bunch of the electric costs.
The risk of losing water, power, secure operating systems and software, and personal devices that aren't hot garbage, however, is very much threatened by AI.
Yeah, there are definitely some concerns with AI. I'm just saying that as of now, it looks like jobs apocalypse is not on the menu. At least in the near term. There may be a larger risk of economic meltdown with some jobs apocalypse triggered by this bubble finally bursting.
As someone who lived through the mass introduction of PCs and cell phones, AI isn’t the enclosure movement in England to send hordes to the margins. Yes these technologies were disruptive but it took years and ultimately decades for the effects to wash through the economy and ultimately transform portions of it.
The risk of losing jobs to AI is looking a bit overstated, as we found out that Uber accidentally spent half a billion dollars on tokens by April this year, which was its annual budget, with little productivity gains to show for it.
Much more serious is the fact that these AI companies are still passing the cost of the electricity onto the rest of us. There needs to be a legal change where any user above some threshold has to be separate from the ordinary electric grid and their usage cannot impact ordinary users. AI is cool but we cannot tolerate these companies running these hype products which are already unprofitable and getting the public to pay for a bunch of the electric costs.
The risk of losing water, power, secure operating systems and software, and personal devices that aren't hot garbage, however, is very much threatened by AI.
Yeah, there are definitely some concerns with AI. I'm just saying that as of now, it looks like jobs apocalypse is not on the menu. At least in the near term. There may be a larger risk of economic meltdown with some jobs apocalypse triggered by this bubble finally bursting.
As someone who lived through the mass introduction of PCs and cell phones, AI isn’t the enclosure movement in England to send hordes to the margins. Yes these technologies were disruptive but it took years and ultimately decades for the effects to wash through the economy and ultimately transform portions of it.
So, yea, I agree.
Co (together) sta (to stand)...nature delivers each being apart from one another. The cost of standing together implies selling self out to another.
Public implies standing (st) together (co)...that's the hidden cost ones privacy pays when joining others.
Guess who doesn't have to pay any co (together) st (to stand)? Each chosen one!