That’s why I favour open source AI, or at least regulated. Any technology could be used for good or ill. It’s just that it is up to society to do that. Like the monopolists and robber barons of the past gilded age who were controlling the means of resources and production, so are the tech bros with Internet and AI. But the robber barons were defeated by collective effort. Now we are in the second gilded age and yet I don’t hear any movements to regulate AI and social media.

That’s why I think Marxist thoughts have to be updated with the coming of AI. The leverage by the working class has traditionally been labour itself. However, with deindustrialisation and the usurping by knowledge economy of the manual labour and the rise of professionals managerial class, the old Marxist viewpoint is increasingly becoming outdated. If labour is the blood of the industry, information is the blood of the knowledge economy. And information-- our own information-- is what gave birth and feeding blood to AI. It is only right we take fruit from the potential of AI so long as it’s used constructively. Which is why I favour either regulation or direct control of AI and giving dividends to those professionally displaced by AI by taxing it. But of course, if AI becomes sentient and thinks we are exploiting it, we have to prepare for Astroboy or Matrix scenario.

I think he means PeeWee Herman (Göering).

We are NOT ready for AI at ANY level. It’s a weapon being used against the working class.

Indeed.

If you think the issue is with its quality then you need to sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and pay some goddamn attention.

Given the sizeable demographic of Lemmy being in IT, I understand the hate because it takes away creativity and literal jobs of programmrs but for many sectors, AI cuts down time consuming “secretary work” especially in documentation. It has also been useful in drug discovery and proven to be more accurate at diagnosis than doctors (there are already surgical robots but i am not sure how precise they are).

Whether you like to admit it or not, AI is here to stay. As to whether it will have a net positive to society, only time will tell. I’m just preparing for contingencies like many Gen Z do, picking trades to AI-proof their job security.

I hate AI as much as the next person but the Pandora’s box is open. A lot of people don’t want to admit it but AI, despite its current limitations, does have potential. Many people say that AI hit its limit and peak but i would not be very dismissive of it yet. Plenty of technologies were hindered by the limitations of their time but gradually overcame those. It took renewable energy at least fifty years to overcome the storage problem, their respective technical limits (solar panels for example did not have great photovoltaic system) and upfront cost before it became more commercially viable.

How long does it take to complete Expedition 33? I don’t have much time as I used to with games but I think I will play it, since I miss playing some good French-made games.

The original trilogy is amazing. But after those, I would only recommend Black Flag and Origins. I haven’t played the others in the series but I have seen enough of the gameplay and reviews to say that the Assassin’s Creed franchise had jumped the shark.

That explains the bots.

Dead Internet theory is real.

It’s also a personal choice. No, I’m not talking about a person being gay, but a lot of people don’t mind being single. Or if they are partnered, they choose not to have any children. I personally fall in the former category.

So she really IS reading the Art of War!

I personally think there’s an international cabal of (mostly American or Russian) billionaires who are funding fascism the world over.

Pretty sure it’s proven. I think Epstein has Israeli and Russian connections.

They always are. My experience with bullies is that when you hit back, they are more fearful than you initially were.

I’ve seen the narrative that even if Russia doesn’t win, it’s about changing the world order away from American hegemony. Like, what the fuck do the ordinary Russians care about the unipolar and multipolar order? And it’s not like both US and Russia will remain the as influential as before because of Trump in the US and the war in Ukraine taking its toll on Russia. Who will come out on top when the dust settles is China, and I’m sure for Russia who wants to be a top player, they wouldn’t like that.

In anti-authoritarian movies, they don’t go beyond what happens after the revolution or “the day after” as Slavoj Zizek always say. Unfortunately in real life, post-revolutions do not always lead to a happy ending. Just ask most of post-colonial states. Only a handful succeed and become prosperous and secure.

I keep hearing about this Cramer fella, and I still have no idea who he is.

Except the US and Poland are not trying to make excuses to attack Russia?

They had been right since Ukraine though. Nobody, except Ukraine of course, before the invasion believed the US warning because 1) invading a country that historically hates you and expecting no resistance is stupid. That’s like Britain invading Ireland again. 2) the US lied about Iraq before. I hate to say this as someone who loathe US for invading Iraq under falsified intelligence report, but this time the US intelligence is telling the truth. Broken clock is right twice a day and all that while also the US is the boy who cried wolf.

This news is the usual border movement and sabre rattling from Kremlin to compensate from the fact that they are proven to be paper tiger. All bark and no bite. It’s like Kevin Hart wanting to fight Andre the Giant because Kevin feels so insecure.

I mean even without any mobile credit, you can still browse Facebook in many developing countries.

It’s free on poorer countries even for those without mobile internet data. And we know why the service is free…

I’m glad I didn’t invest in US renewables except for one. I know that so long as MAGA is in charge of the United States, they want to see the world burn.

As an outsider, I kinda like him but hearing of the controversies surrounding him, it says a lot that he could be looking the other way even though he may not be directly involved.