A video that appears to show David Attenborough narrating a programmer's life shows Hollywood actors are right to be afraid of AI
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If you've ever wanted acclaimed broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough to narrate your life, you're not alone — and you don't have to keep merely wishing for it anymore.

This video of David Attenborough narrating a programmer’s life shows Hollywood actors were right to be afraid of AI::If you’ve ever wanted acclaimed broadcaster and documentary filmmaker Sir David Attenborough to narrate your life, you’re not alone — and you don’t have to keep merely wishing for it anymore.

  • grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Capitalism 101:

    • as productivity of individuals increases, increase the workload and hit fewer people
    • if people are better at “life” and have more free time and money, charge more for discretionary experiences and goods

    And so on.

    I do think it will improve life for some but for others it will suck. Example: it much, much easier and cheaper to give each gig worker a micro-managing AI voice I their ear than it is to replace workers with robots (work in Amazon warehouse if you don’t believe me). And job automation in white collar sectors will mean more people are taking gig economy jobs.

    Maybe it will be cool. Show up at a construct site, sign in, and get told what to do to help frame a house with no real skills (“take a stack of studs to the location on your HUD”). You are now making money without needing other people to supervise that much (skilled framers still do most if it but you keep them more productive). And you could do that for two hours and hand off to the next person.