what he isnt saying, is AI needs to be profitable for it to happen, it hasnt.
kittenroar@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Sam Altman and others have publicly stated (something to the effect that) the end goal is for AI to replace workers. There is no amount of money too big for a capitalist to bet on that outcome, especially if they deem it plausible.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 days ago
TQuid@beehaw.org 3 days ago
That’s an excellent way to think about it. I mean, horrifying, but incisive.
AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 3 days ago
And then who buys the products 🫠
HK65@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
They buy products from each other, and shut out more and more people if society.
You see the homeless drug addict on the street? They want more of that.
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
They buy products from each other and shut themselves from society.
Which is not a bad outcome.
ignirtoq@feddit.online 1 day ago
Except they take all of the land and resources with them. You posit the billionaires have a fully automated robotic industry at their whim and they will leave any scraps for the rest of us? It would be judgment day from the Terminator series, except instead of a super intelligent Skynet AGI mowing down humanity it would be psychopathic pedophiles.
partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Exchange still occurs globally and amongst the upper class.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 days ago
The upper class doesn’t buy anything but stocks.
PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 3 days ago
When we only have white cishet billionaires, we can abolish money.
TehPers@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Don’t forget about the other big players! Jensen Hwang, Lisa Su, Lip-Bu Tan, Satya Nadella, plus the memory cartel (Samsung, SK Hynix, etc.)
This particular war is a class war.
PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 1 day ago
Ah, so, about them…
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Just imagine a world in which the only products manufactured are exclusively chasing the dollars of wealthy investors. So like yachts, custom giant statues, kill drone perimeters, etc.