The thing about A.I. that bothers me the most is all the people celebrating with gleeass huge swaths of people are going to lose their livelihood.
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7,800 jobs from IBM, so far but the tech sector is just getting started. It is so strange to watch people make the same mistakes over and over. They think, oh this is going to be great and it never is. The auto industry, with robots. Finance sector, with automations. Customer service, with chat bots. It never makes anything better. Hell, the God father of AI is full of regrets, but what does he know.
The types of rebuttals I always here is:
- we'll just create new jobs.
Doing what? Putting our thumb up our ass? All the jobs will be shit work. Soul sucking work. You know that 1000 yard stare you see in, like, McDonalds workers? Many of us all get to know what that is like.
- we'll now have more time to find meaning and to find ourselves.
Do you know how hard that is? Not to mention how long? I'm 35 and havent and I try a lot.