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AI/Automation Megathread

Bear Ribs

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It's downright bizarre to realize how reverse-world AI has become. For decades we've been told that the last thing to go would be the creative stuff and robots' strong suit would be their vast knowledge base and precision. In the space of a couple of years that's been completely upended, and AI is starting to take over the creative world while being unable to answer questions as accurately as a human.

What we're increasingly discovering is that while AI is only capable of simple tasks, it turns out most complex tasks are actually just a series of simple tasks that can be broken down into bites the AI can handle. Stuff that was considered to be impossible for an AI is increasingly becoming relatively commonplace for them as they continue to break the tasks down into simpler chunks.
 

Marnuplee

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Gab now have their own AI image generator.


 

Agent23

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It's downright bizarre to realize how reverse-world AI has become. For decades we've been told that the last thing to go would be the creative stuff and robots' strong suit would be their vast knowledge base and precision. In the space of a couple of years that's been completely upended, and AI is starting to take over the creative world while being unable to answer questions as accurately as a human.

What we're increasingly discovering is that while AI is only capable of simple tasks, it turns out most complex tasks are actually just a series of simple tasks that can be broken down into bites the AI can handle. Stuff that was considered to be impossible for an AI is increasingly becoming relatively commonplace for them as they continue to break the tasks down into simpler chunks.
It can do strictly defined, discrete tasks with lots of prior input.

It can not do true human logic or common sense.

As to shit like essay writing, well that was basically ad nausium stretching out of stuff and vomiting out cliches.

The AI so called art is just blending of images with outright idiotic results at times.

When this bubble bursts it will be so much fum to watch.
 

Captain X

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Osaul
Gab now have their own AI image generator.


But can it make me T'Pol nudes?
 

Cherico

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But can it make me T'Pol nudes?

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Scottty

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Founder
From what I've heard, computers and robots can so far do:
1) Mindless repetitive tasks, the same thing over and over, such as on a factory conveyor belt.
2) Generation of verbiage. Words words words.

The things it can't do? Anything in the real world of complex and changing situations. It might make plenty of "White-collar" jobs obsolete, and the sort of rote work jobs that humans arguably should not be doing, but not the practical "Blue-collar" jobs that require brains and situational awareness.
 

Cherico

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From what I've heard, computers and robots can so far do:
1) Mindless repetitive tasks, the same thing over and over, such as on a factory conveyor belt.
2) Generation of verbiage. Words words words.

The things it can't do? Anything in the real world of complex and changing situations. It might make plenty of "White-collar" jobs obsolete, and the sort of rote work jobs that humans arguably should not be doing, but not the practical "Blue-collar" jobs that require brains and situational awareness.

Its kind of funny so many white collar workers wanted AI to fuck over the blue collar people who they hate and dispise and it turns out its going to take their jobs. Its a kind of a sad irony in that.
 

Agent23

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Its kind of funny so many white collar workers wanted AI to fuck over the blue collar people who they hate and dispise and it turns out its going to take their jobs. Its a kind of a sad irony in that.
I find it a delicious irony, especially since I view IT as a gentrified bluecollar job. :)
 
Its kind of funny so many white collar workers wanted AI to fuck over the blue collar people who they hate and dispise and it turns out its going to take their jobs. Its a kind of a sad irony in that.

My big concern is what this will mean for the physically disabled. It's those low-level jobs that either allow them to make a living period or even work their way up the company, for those who say "just go on disability" or "Just go to a church shelter," I don't think people realize the things they take for granted like being able to work for a living and be a person rather than being a virtue signaling pet. I won't say that the disabled are the most oppressed minority, but I will say that we are a minority that is among the first and quickest to be forgotten by history when it comes to misdeeds the elderly being a close 2nd.
 

Agent23

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This is just another stupid hype train that got started because tech stocks were heading into the crapper.
The hype will die soon, when the bear rally ends and we finally get the Brandon recession.

Absolutely the same stupid hype was here during the dot com bubble in the 00s.
 

Cherico

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This is just another stupid hype train that got started because tech stocks were heading into the crapper.
The hype will die soon, when the bear rally ends and we finally get the Brandon recession.

Absolutely the same stupid hype was here during the dot com bubble in the 00s.

Globally speaking the world economies fundamentals are absolute dog shit. Fact is last year the baby boomers started their mass retirement. That means all of the extra money sloshing around the system is gone, gone forever. Their putting their money into savings, t-bills and stuff that isn't volitile and that's a structural change.

The reason for low unemployment is that said entire generation is fucking leaving the workplace forever. And corperate america did not invest in training new personal in pretty much any industry. So they have no choice but to train people and they destroyed any loyality their employees ever had to them by acting like well utter asshats for decades so their just going to take that training and go to who ever pays the best.

But immigration you say?

Pretty much the entire world is greying and you have a civilizational wide populist revolt.
 

Agent23

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Globally speaking the world economies fundamentals are absolute dog shit. Fact is last year the baby boomers started their mass retirement. That means all of the extra money sloshing around the system is gone, gone forever. Their putting their money into savings, t-bills and stuff that isn't volitile and that's a structural change.

The reason for low unemployment is that said entire generation is fucking leaving the workplace forever. And corperate america did not invest in training new personal in pretty much any industry. So they have no choice but to train people and they destroyed any loyality their employees ever had to them by acting like well utter asshats for decades so their just going to take that training and go to who ever pays the best.

But immigration you say?

Pretty much the entire world is greying and you have a civilizational wide populist revolt.
Yup, most of that corresponds with my analisys, too.

Boomers and Millennials though are not as well off as you might think, so I think at least some will be forced to continue working after the customary agr of retirement.
And let us face it, Zoomers and Millennials are lazy and entitled and they believe all sorts of stupid shit and suffer from social media addiction.

Another big drain is the trend of younger people just checking out and "lying flat" and much of the overseas investment coming into the USA will be redirected because of the sanctions that made the dollar/West look less like a safe haven.
And we haven't gotten through all of the problems the lockdowns caused, either.

Now, a smart president and FED chairman would have done something to mediate the situation, the USA only has Brandon and J.

The crash will be pretty big.

Fun, interesting times ahead. :D
 

Prince Ire

Section XIII
This is just another stupid hype train that got started because tech stocks were heading into the crapper.
The hype will die soon, when the bear rally ends and we finally get the Brandon recession.

Absolutely the same stupid hype was here during the dot com bubble in the 00s.
You're right, the internet never amounted to anything after all. Pets.com in particular proved that online shopping would never amount to anything and would never compete effectively with brick and mortar stores.
 

Agent23

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You're right, the internet never amounted to anything after all. Pets.com in particular proved that online shopping would never amount to anything and would never compete effectively with brick and mortar stores.
Nice sarcasm.

The stories most of those companies told were bullshit, they never had a real, sustainable advantage and they were and still are hugely overvalued and a lot of them were outright frauds.

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