Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks agoRight? It actually makes me feel insane that the topic of “humans working less” is never in the selling points of these products.
Honestly I suspect that rather than some nefarious capitalist plot to enslave humanity, it is just more evidence that the software can’t actually do what the people selling it to big corporations claim it can do.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I mean it kind of is, just less insidious sounding when laid out plain. Hiring people cuts into profits, so they want to hire less people and use AI, which is theoretically cheaper, to do it. And then you don’t have to worry as much about pesky things like UNIONS or HR or SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSUITS. Different people have different opinions on how evil absolute nihilism towards the people who are affected by the loss of those jobs is, I personally think it’s pretty fucking evil but I think pretty much every capitalist value is pretty fucking evil so I wouldn’t say my viewpoint on this is an especially nuanced one.
Kirk@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah absolutely, but I also think the goal of the AI companies is not to actually create a functioning AI that could “do a job 20% as good as a human, but 90% cheaper”, but to sell fancy software, whether it works or not, and leave the smaller companies holding the bag after they lay off their workforce.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
I think that’s also part of it. Lots of stupid moving parts in this giant idiot machine.