FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 days agoAI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive. Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could out think neural networks.www.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square66fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down124
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minus-squareTelorand@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·24 days ago What’s the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways? Free labor. Humans are expensive, but robot slaves are comparatively cheap (hypothetically). Ultracapitalists have a harder time getting a slave labor force, so robots that can think like people are the next best thing for that purpose.
minus-squareSinningStromgald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 days agoAnd if there is a “free” labor force competing with humans for jobs then humans will be forced to accept lower pay, longer hours, and less benifits for more work.
minus-squaredangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 days agoAnd eventually, labor bargains will be obsolete. They won’t need us ever again. Top 1% live in utopia, rest of us living in slums
minus-squareAlmacca@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·24 days agoIt’s not free by any definition of the term, though. What it is is infinitely exploitable.
Free labor. Humans are expensive, but robot slaves are comparatively cheap (hypothetically).
Ultracapitalists have a harder time getting a slave labor force, so robots that can think like people are the next best thing for that purpose.
And if there is a “free” labor force competing with humans for jobs then humans will be forced to accept lower pay, longer hours, and less benifits for more work.
And eventually, labor bargains will be obsolete. They won’t need us ever again. Top 1% live in utopia, rest of us living in slums
It’s not free by any definition of the term, though. What it is is infinitely exploitable.