Comment on ‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoThey are.
Had an argument with a more junior member of my team on Friday. I described the ethical, environmental, and CS-domain-related objections I have to LLMs. His response was that “it’s just another tool in the toolbox” (my opinion: yes and no, and I could write a doctoral thesis on the “no” part)
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
For a little while, the US considered using nuclear weapons for geologic purposes. It was never operationally implemented because it’s an objectively horrible idea, but at the time, nuclear stuff was the hot new tool in the toolbox.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
AI is also terrible, just in a less tangible way.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Thunderbirds International Rescue had a nuclear mining episode IIRC.