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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Replace Jobs and Lead to a Two-Day Workweek

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Bill Gates Predicts AI Will Replace Jobs and Lead to a Two-Day Workweek

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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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Bill Gates warns AI will dominate future jobs and reduce human work-week to two days.
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  • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
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    That would mean CEOs would share the benefits of automation with employees. They won’t. They’ll cut 60% of staff and work that 40% full time or more.

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      They’ll work only 20% staff on hefty overtime till breakdown.

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      Spot on.

    • dyathinkhesaurus@lemmy.world
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      They’ll just fill the other 3 days with more work. Because you have all that extra time now.

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    and nobody but 10 white guys would be able to afford food

    • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
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      What if we just ate those 10 white guys?

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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      10 white guys

      NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR

    • henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      Come now, you can be a subsistence tech worker!

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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        If they didn’t want to suffer the lack of necessities, they could have learned to trillionaire.

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      Ah yes only rich white guys are the problem and billionaires with other skin color are all benevolent.

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        Genuinely asking because I can’t think of any what billionaires aren’t white?

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          The main point is that we shouldn’t let race divide us in a class war.

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          Nvidia’s CEO is definitely in the top ten. Also, there’s a reason Kushner is going to the Iranians Saudis to buy EA.

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            Ah can’t believe I forgot about Jensen

            • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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              Yeah. Also, Jack Ma, who owns Alibaba.

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                hes been censured by the ccp a while ago.

                • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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                  Still a Billionaire.

        • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
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          Googles CEO is Indian and a Billionaire.

          • Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) has almost a billion dollars.

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          The family that owns Samsung and basically run the South Korean economy.

          edit: Also Masayoshi Son who has invested heavily in OpenAI with his Softbank Vision Fund

          and Rhianna, Oprah, and Selena Gomez to name a few celebrities.

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            Selena is a billionaire? Damn

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    How are these people so fucking out of touch? Or are they just lying?

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      2 options,

      A) they are intentionally making shit up because it makes them rich.

      B) investors prop up delusional idiots who say shit like that for profit

      not much difference in either case

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    You’ll also receive two days of pay per week.

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    Yes. Two days per job, three jobs per week to barely survive.

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      Those better be 2 12’s per job, big guy. Also full time is still defined at 35 a week

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      It’ll be really shitty jobs, too… And the grand majority will only last as long as it takes to roll out the cheap robotics.

      They’re going to replace nearly everyone. It’s so goddamn obvious. First, the good jobs will be taken, though. We’re there now. Right now.

    • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml
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      Uniquely American

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    God, he’s such a fucking idiot.

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      I think you mean “God, 27% of his wealth is still invested in a company that is all in on AI and he needs to offload it before the bubble pops”. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bill-gates-most-48-billion-190902092.html

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        Fair point.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        it make sense why sam altman and him convenient said the same thing at the same time.

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    Keyes believed we’d have a 15 hour week by now. These things are not predictable

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      My understanding is that Keynes failed to account for the growth in consumerism. Essentially we could probably have a 15 hour work week but we wouldn’t have shiny smartphones.

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    Hundreds of years ago we toiled in fields for 8+hrs to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads… since then, with all the technology and advancements to make our lives easier, we still work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads… I doubt his claims

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      Just add some cash to the AI, please bro. It will give you a 2 day workweek bro, I swear. It will bring back your loved ones bro. Just add the cash bro.

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      With all this extra work, we are not only bleeding ourselves dry but also destroying our environment just to increase stock prices

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      Yes, but you see, we now have billionaires, and soon trillionaires, while we still have to work 8+hrs a day to feed the family and keep a roof over our heads. So… progress.

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    Bill Gates is Trump’s little bitch. He doesn’t care about any of us any more than Elon or Trump himself.

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      Couldn’t have said it better myself.

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    I get really sick of rich people promising their latest product will mean 4/3/2 day working weeks, and when others parrot this nonsense I just despair.

    Leaving aside the dispute over “AI” and it’s actual effect on efficiency…

    If efficiency savings were all that was needed we would already be there. There’s been hundreds of such advances. But all that happens is the wealthy get more wealth. They will always find work for us in those “saved days”, and will increase our costs until we have to work those days to survive.

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      Exactly. A reduced work week is a social policy, meaning we’ll only achieve it through focused political action.

      But sadly there’s no labor party in the US, and the parties we do have are both aggressively hostile to any sort of workplace reforms, so… yeah

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      richard branson was the first guy to say it, then the other started parroting the meaningless drivel.

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    In an ideal world, yes. Under Capitalism, no.

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    He was at Bezos’ wedding with everyone else…fuck you Bill.

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    Two days at the 1st job, two days at the 2nd job, and 2 days at the 3rd job.

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    2 day work week…for C-Suite.

    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      That’s their schedule now…

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    So now it’s “AI” that should allow us to profit from the efficiency increases you assholes actively siphoned off for yourself for decades??

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