• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      38·
      15 days ago

      It’s 4ir shit (4th industrial revolution). AI has been sold as the next industrial revolution in production and governments are sincerely bought into the idea that it needs to be implemented into all aspects of the economy in order to keep up with opponents doing the same.

      They see populations reluctant to embrace it as the reason for lacking the productivity games it’s supposed to provide when in reality the technology just does not provide those productivity gains outside of specific niche things like healthcare where AI can definitely play an excellent role in patient diagnosis and pharmacy.

      They don’t realise they’ve been lied to yet. Governments will be last to realise.

    • Poof [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      27·
      15 days ago

      It can be used to vastly empower the surveillance state and manipulations (propaganda/marketing). It can also be used in automating drone strikes (murder). It’s a tool to further empower the owning class and consolidate power upwards letting a smaller number of people project more power. I believe ai is also being used as a proxy so government and corporations can deny accountability. It has some actually good uses in science but I don’t think that’s where the interest lies.

    • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.net
      English
      26·
      15 days ago

      They believe Marc Andreessen when he says

      We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives. Deaths that were preventable by the AI that was prevented from existing is a form of murder.

      • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        44·
        15 days ago

        Me: Marc, can we have an understanding of social murder?

        Marc: We have an understanding of social murder at home.

        The understanding of social murder at home:

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      15 days ago

      Rich people imagine AI will allow them to finally fulfill their dream of accumulating value without having to pay a worker. It doesn’t actually work that way, but like all capitalists they’re dumb idealists.

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      39·
      15 days ago

      My friend, who is a self titulated capitalist, was mocking me like “oh looks who is embracing capitalism” because I got myself a promotion and a 30% rise telling my boss I was applying to a position in other department and I was like bitch getting more of my surplus value is the most socialist thing I can do in my position.

    • SpanishSpaceAgency [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      49·
      15 days ago

      But it isn’t even a contradiction. The more you understand how it works the less you like it. Once you’ve peeked behind the curtain you are aware the great and powerful Oz is just smoke and mirrors and bullshit and you don’t believe it’s magic anymore. That’s not contradictory that’s just rational.

      • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        29·
        15 days ago

        I’d argue only at that point can the AI actually be useful to you because you’re aware of its inherent limitations and can just use it for the things you know it’s good at, which is not that many things actually so yeah you end up using it way less.

          • hello_hello [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
            14·
            15 days ago

            Its not even auto complete. I tried running qwen3:8b param model on ollama and it just felt so tiring having to cajole the program into producing the output I want.

            Everything was very underwhelming and could be done better by a 15 year old human personal assistant who actually likes programming.

            AI is the supposed bourgeois escape hatch for starving and mistreating workers when the reality of austerity hits them fast and no one is able to work.

            • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              15 days ago

              Models that you can run locally on reasonably priced consumer grade hardware are always going to be crap, you really need the beefy models that destroy the environment for it to be somewhat useful.

                • space_comrade [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  14 days ago

                  Oh yeah this whole thing is very very much convenient to Nvidia and data center companies lmao.

                  I still think they’re incentivized to make the models more efficient as they could then squeeze out even more profit, it’s just that it’s a property of the technology itself that it doesn’t really work well until you have bajillions of parameters.

      • queermunist she/her@lemmy.mlEnglish
        24·
        15 days ago

        The more you understand how it works the less you like it.

        That’s the dialectic! There’s a mutual antagonism between understanding AI and wanting to use AI.

  • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    19·
    15 days ago

    How come people are more eager to embrace something they think is a magic gnome capable of answering all questions and do all their work than they are of embracing something they know to be a statistical bullshit generator?

  • darkmode [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    15 days ago

    A lot of work I have been doing recently has involved modernizing a codebase that is too old and bc I have the knowledge of what should be done I am able to just let an LLM rip 80% and guide it to fix the remaining 20. Have never used these chat/search bots for anything else

    The code also isn’t well documented or self-documenting so it’s also really good at parsing related files and reading packages to figure out how they work for me way faster than searching the internet or guessing