This makes it obivous that tech ceos are just so out of touch with reality
The headline is a lie. The CEOs are not confused; they know why. And in the article, they don’t even pretend they’re confused, because that’s too ridiculous to claim even in a media blurb.
They are mad at everyone at work for not using the AI tools more. I was told that we aren’t seeing productivity gains because people aren’t using the tools right but I think it’s more that the tools don’t live up to expectations so people don’t care to use them. They are expecting all this work to be done faster and it’s causing everyone to work more. Any productivity gains is from us working all hours of the day
I’m in a similar boat, my company isn’t pushing it too hard but they are definitely on the AI train and I truly haven’t found a great use for it yet. Everything it puts out still has to be double checked so it seems like if I’m doing the work anyways I might as well just do it right the first time.
I don’t hate it but I do understand why some people do. Actually I do hate it too. My bank is using it for Customer Circus…and its that a circus.
Because like them it’s so incredibly lame
AI, and now the internet in general, is a net negative for humanity. It’s been hijacked by the rich, who manipulate headlines and social media using, in part, artificially generated pictures. People are believing that garbage. Saw a few people believe videos of cats shooting machine guns. Seriously.
CEOs are generally speaking… calculating. They just want this in the news. They want people talking. Who is interested in an IPO nobody is talking about? Nobody gave a damn about Oracle after they collapsed until their CEO started doing ridiculous shit just to be in headlines, like sparring with Red Hat, as an example.
Calculating and immoral
I remember a time when tech ceos actually used the internet. It seems that now they just get their MBAs, a job, and then spend all their free time avoiding technology and listening to other people tell them what they want to heat
Perhaps if they didn’t buy up all the RAM, HDDs , GPUs and making PC building / home computing so expensive, maybe we might consider liking it a bit.
Don’t forget that the Internet is currently ruined by AI-slop that is continuously flooding once interesting human-created content. This is probably my biggest gripe of AI. I’ve significantly reduced my screen-time, basically stopped coding in my free-time because of this sloppy mess that we call Internet right now…
Nah I’d still hate AI because it’s trash
There was absolutely no reason for AI companies to go batshit crazy. This was pure supply shock. Each level assumed 10x exponential growth. A sane 2x or 4x would have been manageable for all suppliers
They keep telling us how cool and fun it is. Why won’t we believe them? They know what’s best for us, and they’re going to make us take it whether we want it or not.
Not me, I’ve never touched the shit.
Me either, well knowingly and willingly outside it appearing in searches.
Are we rare?
No
Good
They shoved AI everywhere without any concern over what the users want. Now the users are resentful, while the AI bros go Shocked Pikachu Face.
I can’t help but wonder if the public reaction would’ve been more positive if we hadn’t been inundated by AI intrusions in seemingly every facet of technology. In a way, I can appreciate that the hatred is home-grown - the biggest issues I see revolve around the ethical issues stemming from AI’s lack of regulation, and ethical issues don’t tend to make the public react. The fact that people already found their own reasons to dislike AI means we’re all on the same page. If the public were fans, I’d just be dismissed as a bleeding-heart for giving a shit about right and wrong.
But here we are, standing together in hatred. So beautiful.
I wonder why people don’t want cloud based AI running their microwave
I don’t hate the AI that much. It’s useful in some specific circumstances, but mostly is just a fun novelty toy.
I hate the CEOs forcing it down our throats.
AI is being used to generate videos of minorities breaking laws and rioting. That is its purpose
Ok, but you should hate it though. AI, as implemented by capitalism, is downright detrimental in so so so many ways. Even if we set aside the huge environmental costs, energy and water price hikes in communities near data centers, loss of jobs due to AI, theft of IP, and sloppification of the internet, it is also doing things like convincing my friend with bipolar that they should attempt suicide.
That’s kinda contained in “the CEOs forcing it down our throats” though, y’know? They’re forcing it down our throats because capitalism requires it, they need public buy-in and mass adoption or else the whole economic structure implodes.
None of that tells me I should hate the technology, like any other technology under capitalism.
You can’t just take things out of their historical context, or you’re not doing dialectics anymore. We live in the reality we live in. However, even if we lived in a communist utopia, the tool’s insane resource requirements and impacts on people’s health and livelihoods should still make you disdain its use in any context other than research.
We also live in a historical moment where there are national experiments with different material relations than the predominant capitalist form of the West. China specifically is doing things somewhat differently by training models to be modular and task-specific, instead of the obsession Silicon Valley has with making an everything app. I’m also interested in their experiments in cooling data centers with sea water, as well as how they’re phasing out fossil fuels while rapidly expanding next gen renewables+grid battery storage to power those data centers.
I don’t know if I’ll go as far as to say they’re doing AI right, but I think when the bubble bursts they’ll adapt far better.
Good point, and I don’t really know how LLMs are being rolled out in China. However, given the context of climate change and the impending broader global ecological collapse, I really don’t see any reason at all that a tool with such limited usefulness relative to its outsized footprint should be made broadly available. It’s like, on a global scale we are already doing basically nothing about how completely fucked we’re going to be in the 30-70 years.
Because we are not absolute morons incapable of independent thought like they are
Artificial intelligence is a primary keystone for a science fiction civilization to move its labor from the people to machines, but they obviously ignored the other keystones such as equal rights, shared wealth and further opportunities to all humans. The wealthy want all the wealth and opportunities to themselves; cut the people out of the equation to gain more market and never have to pay the lower class citizens ever again. They clearly designated themselves no longer human. We the people think for ourselves and we the humans should easily abandon them. No longer serve them no matter how much they offer, no longer entertain them no how much they give, no more trust no matter how much they plead. They ignored us for so long and destroyed our world, why should we hear their pleas?
Key difference, what is called AI in science fiction isn’t the same as the AI we see today. These companies just adopted the term AI from science fiction as a marketing strategy. Not because it’s actually representative.
Some people are now having to clarify AGI, rather than just AI, because the term has got so diluted.
If the line is “AGI is what is necessary for us to have robots to do labor”, then we’ve had “AGI” since 1961.
The “robot” arms that took over assembly lines are not really any different than the machines that started the industrial revolution. They are simply a refinement of that technology. A true takeover would require something that didn’t need to be reprogrammed any time you needed to shift a bolt over a millimeter.
To be fair, I’m not saying “AGI” didn’t exist before, I’m just saying it wasn’t used very wildly because at the time “AI” and “AGI” were otherwise synonymous.
