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.

  • argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    You could have said the same for factories in the 18th century.

    Everyone who died as a result of their introduction probably would say the same, yes. If corpses could speak, anyway.

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      10 months ago

      Well if you can find anyone who’s died because an AI wrote an article then I’ll concede you have a point.