Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai
Another article for free (but seriously subscribe to 404 they do great work) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/graduation-speaker-booed-ai
Shorter Version Gloria Caulfield Booed at UCF Graduation Speech the comments are on fire.
youtubeUser - “Watching this was so cathartic you have no idea”
another User - “I hate when people compare AI to the birth of the internet era and cellphones. Those eras did not have anywhere near the same level of job loss implications and the threat of eradicating as many junior positions as AI does. When boomers make this kind of comparison, it comes off as so disconnected and tone deaf. I hope I’m wrong about AI and that it actually creates massive new industries for entry level workers, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Not in my lifetime at least. We’re about to see mass homogenization of culture and entertainment, significant privacy concerns, mass surveillance, scams, and an absolute gutting of entry level jobs; this is already beginning to happen. I just don’t trust corporations and business owners to not squeeze every last cent out of AI agents and only hire employees as a last resort. That’s their end game and they don’t even hide it at all.”
I see not only an era of scamming that will break basic human trust systems but the reliance on it will riddle previously methodical fields like medicine, design and law with a barrage of flaws and falsehoods no one will check until they cause failures.
I wish more people would understand that LLMs are “taking” extremely few jobs away. The “chatbots can do a real job” narrative is just there to bump up the stock prices.
A real AI would incur massive job loss, but the job losses we’re seeing now being blamed on AI are really just the same normal oligarchal greed at work.
Right now the ai companies are highly substadising their products. They announced recently that it actually costs them more than it does to pay a human engineer to write the same code.
That means it’s just a trap. They are trying to get companies to go all in so they will be dependent on them when the engineers are gone and they will raise the price significantly.
Which is frankly bizarre. You can definitely run an AI to assist with coding locally for a lot less than hiring a coder for even a month. So if they can’t accomplish that without blowing the budget then there is no hope for them.
They are betting on it VERY hard with massive data centers though.
Not just jobs, but:
I suppose the scammers are about the only arguably common downside between the AI boom and the dot-com boom, but it was at the time less compelling because it was such an ‘alien’ medium that people weren’t trusted, whereas AI is corrupting a familiar medium with even more scam than people are used to.